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Interesting to see not a single mention of Fadness or Fishers –
Same thought I had, Brad W. Perhaps the reporter can ask?
Because he didn’t attend?
Ive said it time and time again that Indiana could really leap frog many cities if the state connected its major cities with speed rail.
There should be a speed rail to connect Ft Wayne and South Bend to Indy. Bloomington and Lafayette to Indy and Evansville to Indy. I would suggest that ridership should be for the tech community, the business community, college students, faculty and the athletic department ect.
1000% Agree. Most of the younger generation would rather NOT have to rely on cars for transportation and it would have a positive impact on our negative environmental footprint in this state.
True high-speed rail can be very expensive and works best connecting major agglomerate economies. If there were a proposed Chicago – Indy – Nashville – Atlanta HSR line proposed, that would be great! It connects multiple large-to-medium-sized regions and anchored by large economies on both ends. For an Indiana-specific plan, I think we would be better off focused on frequency and reliability; think trains coming often, on a clockface schedule, and running at speeds competitive with driving time. This keeps capex and O&M costs fairly low, subsidies low, and fares affordable.
Sure. These are the same people that use IEDC funding and TIF/tax abatements for a company to move 0.3 miles across an invisible line and brag about how great they are.
I believe we’ve reached peak regionalism nationally and locally, at least as it has been traditionally understood.
Indianapolis is actually deregionalizing at the grass roots level. There’s an emerging city-suburb split I see that was previously not present in our region. People today openly talk about how they never go downtown, or make disparaging remarks about it. In the past, the whole region took pride in Indy’s revived downtown.
Today’s very different political and cultural values of the urban core vs. the suburbs will also inhibit regional collaboration.
Also, the suburbs have now grown into a force in their own right. Hamilton County + Zionsville + far northern Marion County are essentially a city in their own right, with about 500,000 mostly highly educated people and all the amenities they need except for a handful of items like sports. As well as their own economy. Data from Hamilton County last year showed that there is no longer a net commuter flow from Hamilton into Marion Counties, and if anything it does the other way to a slight extent. This is an area that is plausibly a region.
What precisely is regionalism today and what would it do tangibly?
Imo, we need to define what assets are truly regional and have regional benefit (ex. parks, transit, greenways, major arterial roadways, etc.) and create some kind of formal governance structure to fund and manage these assets, not totally unlike the Metroplitan Council in Minnesota. Maybe that’s the MPO, maybe it’s the RDA, who knows, but I think that our incredibly fractured system of regional governance is a hinderance to coordinating economic development, land use, and transportation efforts.
I’m curious as to why Lebanon was not included in this group.
How do you know they weren’t invited?
Regionalism is critical for socioeconomic mobility for everyone who lives here, but our lack of regional transit is absolutely killing us. The fact that someone living in Marion County (in which ~10% of households don’t own cars, but that is much higher in other neighborhoods; it’s nearly 30% where I live) can’t get a job in one of the rapidly-growing commercial and light industrial facilities in Hamilton or Hancock Counties is nuts. Our lack of fast, frequent, and reliable multi-county transportation is a real detractor for a lot of major businesses who would otherwise like to set up shop here.