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Ha! Yeah let the State take over Wash and Meridian. Let’s throw in 16th street while we’re at it.
I hope this “state takeover” goes better than the takeover of Manual High School. How’d that go? Why do we never talk about that one…? Anyone?
Let these idiots play their stupid games.
The rest of us have to get back to work.
Indeed
Do you remember how totally messed up Manual High was before it
was taken away from Indianapolis Public Schools.
1). It had the lowest test scores in the state
2). Fighting and violence was rampant
3). Only 20% of the boys graduated on time. The girls only slightly higher
graduation rates.
4). Truancy was through the roof.
5). The drop out rate was the highest in the state.
In short, Manual was an utter disaster. The administrators and staff were utterly wore out and defeated. Many Students were afraid to go to school,
which contributed to the high drop out rate.
The city did a horrible job.
Aaron Freeman thinks he’s solving a problem by taking away roads from Indianapolis, when it’s the inability of Marion County Republicans like him to stand up for constituents and fight for road funding that is the true problem.
$8 million dollars a year fixes, what, three miles of road?
Meanwhile Freeman gets roundabouts in his district implemented by the city of Indianapolis that make east/west travel possible, and he wants to vent about what the city of Indianapolis does. Maybe the city of Indianapolis should tear out those roundabouts and let his constituents go back to waiting 10 minutes to clear an intersection with stop signs. Those who live on the southeast side of Indianapolis know what I’m talking about.
If Freeman is so sure that his ideas are what Indianapolis needs, why has he passed on running for mayor three times in a row? Oh yeah, he’s for local control as long as he’s the one doing the controlling.
Meanwhile, IndyGo shows up with $150 million of funding to fix Washington Street and Freeman is going to turn it away. That is next level cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Correct
The single most transparent thing about the Republican supermajority is Freeman’s desire to BE mayor without actually having to be ELECTED mayor.
Rep. Qaddoura hits the nail squarely on the head when he says a state takeover of Indianapolis roads is “short-sighted” and fails to solve the issues within the state’s funding formula that have led to funding shortages for Indianapolis.
Rep. Freeman could care less, as his singular goal is to get rid of mass transit in the country’s 16th largest city while the city tries to kill two birds with one federal stone: improve some streets as well as mass transit.
Rep. Pressel can be a part of that solution by letting Indianapolis control its own fate, and telling Freeman to back off.
Correct
Pressel is maybe more of the problem than Freeman. He’s in denial that not only does the formula need to be fixed to be more fair to urban areas, but that more money needs to be collected. Indiana Republicans seem to think the fix is add toll roads to the interstates (prohibited by federal law) in order to collect funds from drivers who drive through Indiana without stopping for gas. They might have better luck buying Powerball tickets.
But we have money for new roads like the Mid States Corridor to run alongside US231, which is wasteful as can be.
If Freeman wants to tell someone how to build roads, maybe he should focus on telling INDOT to stop building so many new ones that aren’t needed. I-69 is the last road in which you could make a case was needed.
…and on I-69, the “case” for actual need would ONLY have been the piece from Bloomington to Indy.
I disagree in that it’s a highway from Detroit to Houston. Other components of I-69 are being built elsewhere.
>It also adds to an impending fiscal cliff for INDOT caused by shifts toward electric vehicles, which reduce gas taxes, he said.
That’s an entirely BS argument. Electrics and Hybrids pay a surcharges of $221 and $74 annually, enough to cover 1300 gallons or 438 gallons of gas, which is MANY TIMES MORE than a similar gas vehicle pays in annual gas taxes.
Not to mention that the electricity used by an electric car is already taxed, so the tax on electric cars is many times worse than a similar car.
An electric SUV may pay $221 in fees plus $50 in electricity taxes annual, where a 20-MPG SUV would pay only $125 in gas taxes.
So Freeman admits that the state funding formula for Indianapolis roads is insufficient, admits that Washington is too wide, and still prefers to support his concrete and car-dealer donors above the residents of the city. Got it.
Freeman is not saying that Indianapolis gets an insufficient amount of money. He is just not happy with how they spend money and wants to take that control away from the city. He wants them to focus the funding on roads that are used by folks like him who live in the donut counties or the extreme suburbs of Marion County.
I still don’t understand what about the interstates he finds so difficult. How did he go to school in Illinois and Ohio without using interstates? Did he really just take state and US highways the whole time?
The state government, years ago, needed to provide for an ‘annual Capitol infrastructure ongoing allocation’. A fixed % of state revenue needs to be automatically set aside for construction
and maintenance of Indianapolis roads, over and above whatever the city is able to manage (which obviously is inadequate)! No more cold and hot patching as accepted maintenance. No roads in the state are as dangerous, expensive and ugly as those in the focal point of the state. It’s not a seasonal problem, but an ongoing situation that needs to be corrected. The state needs to re-prioritize its expenditures before another dime is spent on anything else.