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If Indianapolis wants to prioritize street repairs, they needs to stop doing maintenance on the streets around the statehouse.
Indianapolis Republicans will never willingly work to improve the roads of Indianapolis because it remains one of the few campaign points they could have a Republican mayoral candidate get traction on against Joe Hogsett. They’re not going to give him a “win”.
Look at what Freeman and Sandlin and Young spent their time and energy on this session. They didn’t do anything with road funding. At most, they tried to stop IndyGo from doing the Blue Line … which would have provided federal funding to fix a lot of infrastructure at the cost of a lane on Washington Street. But they didn’t fight to stop the Blue Line and, at the same time, promise state funding to fix Washington Street.
Of course, Statehouse Republicans, as noted, would be very hesitant to help fix the problem because it might jeopardize the subsides they get from Indianapolis right now. And, the last time we had a Republican mayor, the solution was to sell off more city infrastructure (parking meters), giving us a one-time cash infusion at the cost of an increased long-term revenue stream.
The state has no obligation to bail out a poorly run city like Indianapolis. The city needs to better prioritize funding for basic services like roads vs. questionable “quality of life” initiatives and the bizarre mass transit Red & Blue Line nonsense.
1) Indianapolis, explicitly Center Township, subsidizes the rest of the State, not the other way around. If Indy is obligated to pay for the rural communities, why isn’t the State obligated to return a semi-proportionate share of the funds to the State capital and biggest revenue donor?
2) Transit funds cannot be used for any other purpose. The transit referendum was for an income tax dedicated to transit and the Federal funds (which paid for new streets around the BRT lines that Indy otherwise couldn’t afford) can’t be used for anything other than transit and its supporting infrastructure.
The city of Indianapolis bails out the entire rest of the state while being robbed of a fair portion of tax dollars…
You can’t just make up opinions and present them as facts, John.
Our mayor is useless, but that does not mean the city is “poorly” run.
This insular attitude–“We, the Esteemed City Dwellers, Know What’s Best and Should Disregard Our Own Colossal Problems Because We Are the Economic Driver for the Rest of the Fundamentally Worthless State”–is primarily what has dragged Illinois into the declining employment/population mire that it currently faces…courtesy of Chicago (whose metro is enough of a majority to steer the politics for the remaining 98% of the state’s land area). The same could be said for NYC within New York State, or the Twin Cities within Minnesota. Increasingly Atlanta’s role within Georgia.
At some point, the urban sophisticates may need to check their monstrous egos and realize that states–and the nation as a whole–function much better when one ideology that represents a clear demographic minority doesn’t try to ramrod its way through the rest of the state. Compromise and negotiation are necessary. But bear this in mind: unlike much of rural unincorporated America, most American cities have enough sovereignty–charters, mayorships, city councils–to build progressive policies all the want. They can develop stringent anti-discrimination and environmental regs. They can harness support for robust transit. They can fill themselves with tents, needless and feces to their hearts’ content. I agree that the Indiana state legislature shouldn’t restrict Indiana from enacting more “progressive” laws on landlords, firearms, environment. But the City (any city) shouldn’t be so surprised that not everyone wants to live the way they do, and that their perceived superior educational attainment doesn’t give them the right to reign over the underlings in the hinterlands.
Easier said than done, but don’t let hubris turn Indiana into another Illinois. If urban progressives had the world figured out, Seattle and Chicago would be really nice places and getting better all the time. Yet Amazon just announced they’re relocating a huge segment of their workforce from the former city. Hmm.
Lauren B: What? Rural populations are over-represented in the State of Indiana and the nation as a whole, thanks to gerrymandering and the structure of the Senate. The City hasn’t “reigned over the hinterlands” to any stretch of the imagination, quite the opposite. Conservative lawmakers have been hammering Indianapolis for making its own choices while siphoning money away to keep their shrinking communities afloat (keep in mind the rural Indiana and rural America is emptying out; fewer and fewer people want to live in the middle of nowhere with no public services and regressive policies). Seattle and Chicago are both growing in population. Not one bit of your comment is based in fact and contributes no substance to the conversation.
The entire county of Marion is a TIF district with those tax fund going to developers and corporations that cry poor. Infrastructure funds go to areas of gentrification or areas the city wants to promote, as well as the “better” neighborhoods. Broad Ripple should receive TIF funds??
I read and commented on pretty much this same story about a week ago here in the IBJ. I don’t see what’s new here.