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Ouch!!!
Pothole Joe’s administration strikes again. Their ineptness knows no bounds.
The article explains very clearly why the bridge construction is starting now and why it has to be done now. Would you rather the city forfeit millions of federal funds and be left with a dangerous and decaying bridge?
Road construction is a fact of life everywhere. Yes, it is not fun, but most of life falls into the “not fun” category—you just suck it up and deal with it.
Little to no consideration for businesses and residents. Navigating in BR has been horrible for way too long. Soooo frustrating!🤬
Boss Hogsett could care less about BRip or Downtown.
He enjoys allowing the crime to fester and business owners struggle.
Frankly it’s as disgusting at the Red Line to no where.
There is no other rationale at this point and voters just keep pressing Pothole Joe’s name on voting machines like a Chipotle line worker…
Good Lord, now necessary road construction is “disgusting?” I hope you are at least getting paid minimum wage to post this nonsense partisan drivel. It is embarrassing for you.
The rest of us prefer not to fall into the water when using a bridge to cross it. Road construction happens *everywhere*, and it is always miserable while it goes on. Put on your big boy pants and get over it.
Chris B… do you own a business in Broadripple?
If you don’t own a business in Broadripple, how many years could you afford to lose 50% of your income?
I feel bad for the businesses. We should help them. Another way to look at their complaints is that they’re getting a lot of road funding while other areas of Marion County are continuing to fall apart. I’d love to have the road outside my home closed for a couple months so it can be rebuilt and it no longer sounds like a car crash as cars pass over the potholes that open up every year.
Exactly. The business owners of Broad Ripple are fed up.
How many potholes have to go without repair or crime increasing constantly before we all say the Mayor and his administration has failed?
This endless construction has definitely harmed, business owners in BRip. This isn’t partisan or debatable.
And a failure at your elected job isn’t a partisan issue, the guy can barely stay out of rehab let alone take out his trash, without allegedly smashing his face on the driveway.
And he still walloped his opponent, who spend eight figures to tell us he would do the same things as Hogsett (but just a little different) while hiring a public safety director and not explaining what difference that would make.
The problem isn’t Hogsett. It’s that the gas tax money from Indianapolis is getting stolen by the rest of the state. Go take out your anger on Aaron Freeman or Mike Speedy or Mike Young or Mike Crider or Kyle Walker or Cyndi Carrasco or Julie McGuire or Chris Jeter. That’s just a few of the Republicans representing Marion County who sit on their hands every year. Ask them where the money is.
Marion County/Indianapolis is trying to play catch-up after years of infrastructure neglect. As is most of Central Indiana, especially Hamilton County. For decades roads and sidewalks, in particular, have been neglected and not repaired. You don’t fix potholes by putting in more filler asphalt. You fix them by shutting down the road and taking it back to its base, and rebuilding from the base. Most of these roads were designed and built in the 60’s, if not before. They weren’t built for all the trucks, pick up and larger, and SUVs, that now travel them. They weren’t built for the volume of traffic. When I-465 was designed back in the late 50’s and early 60’s, planners did not believe the population of Indianapolis/Marion County would ever grow to more than about 800,000 people, and similar low population for the surrounding counties. They never foresaw bumper to bumper on 465. City streets were similarly poorly designed and maintained. Ditto city sewer systems. We didn’t have street lights because the City wouldn’t pay the electric company to run the necessary infrastructure to have street lights. Why? Because Republican City County Councils could brag about low taxes, and kick the problem down the road. Well, we’ve been down the road for many years now, and the work needs to be done.
If federal funds are available because of the infrastructure law, let’s take advantage of them. Let’s get the bridges and roads and sidewalks redesigned and rebuilt, and get caught up from years of neglect. Let’s get the Legislature to properly fund Indy streets…a mile of 2 lane road in rural Indiana should not have the same financing as a mile of 6 lane road in Indianapolis handling multiples more in traffic.
I do feel bad for the BR Merchants, and I am certainly no fan of DPW or the current administration, but to say the project came out of the blue shows that the Merchants need to make more effort to be informed. Within the last year both the IBJ and the Indy Star have reported that the project would start soon after the BR Avenue project was completed. (put me in Cristopher & Joes camp).
I do truly hope the Merchants are able to survive this long and difficult construction project so that they can enjoy the brand new beautiful Avenue. (it was only 2 years ago that many of them had to regularly sandbag their front doors).
Perhaps there’s some room in the budget to assist the merchants while the work is being done. It appears this will be done (if it goes to schedule) by late Spring or early summer…in time for the summer bar season.