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This looks like a pretty skinny list. East St. took a beating, for example.
$14 million for this skinny list …
“In 2021, the state allocated $663 million in road funding to local governments. Marion County received just over $30 million of that, or about 4.5%, despite making up about 13% of the total state population.“
https://www.ibj.com/articles/lawmakers-amendment-to-road-funding-bill-would-allow-state-takeover-of-indianapolis
“ a report by Indianapolis-based engineering firm HNTB Corp. found the city faced an average annual funding gap of $1.07 billion for all its roads and transportation infrastructure. Not including work for residential pavements, sidewalks and pedestrian bridges, the funding gap is $195 million to $230 million annually”
https://www.ibj.com/articles/metro-mayors-join-push-to-change-states-funding-formula-for-local-roads
Data hits hard. Wow.
Pennsylvania Street needs to be added.
And Meridian between 10th and 12th. And Morris St. from West to East.
We’re all circling the same point. The roads are bad, and they will never get better without a change to how the roads are built, used, repaired, and funded. The city, the state, the nation – nobody can afford to keep building and fixing the roads, but we keep on adding Just One More Lane all over the state that we’ll never be able to afford to fix when the bill comes due Road maintenance is not even remotely affordable.
We need options that aren’t roads, and most of the roads we have need to ban large vehicles to prevent the constant damage.
I disagree. We can afford better infrastructure.
We just choose not to have it because we have situarions where the legislator in ch
Sigh.
We just choose not to have it because we have situations where the legislators in charge have decided to redirect the money to their own sparsely populated areas.
We are a state discussing tax elimination facing down these issues. We need actual leadership capable of hard discussion at the statehouse.
The Republican mantra is low taxes, small government. Poorly maintained roads is the price for this ideology. A sufficiently funded government and taxes really do matter. You get what you pay for.
But that said, given the history of the legislator, Indianapolis may never get sufficient state dollars because that would be giving money to the “woke” crowd.
Don’t forget “sell government assets to the private sector”.
Unsure what, if any, formal process the IN Dept. of Transportation used to develop their list of streets – one thing that is clear after our neighborhood met several times with IN DoT representatives at our monthly meetings showing them pictures and documentation of the extensive damage to not only roads but also signage, electronic walk signs, etc. plus pictures of the plethora of 18 wheelers and overloaded dump trucks driving down East Street and neighborhood streets to attempt to avoid the extensive back ups that occurred on East street as “truckers” continued to drive through downtown without enforcement from the State, DoT, etc. – and DoT promises to deal with these matters went nowhere – the very issues brought up by neighborhood groups to IN DoT were never addressed either pro-actively nor reactively after “associations” brought these concerns to their attention – sad to see our IN DoT leaders are so uninformed and unresponsive to the very people who moved and invested in the downtown loop – another mail in the coffin!
Another inexplicable State thumb at the nose of the capital city, the largest city, and the economic engine of this state. It makes no sense whatsoever.
What about 11th St. between Illinois and Meridian, as you come off the I-65 ramp? That needs it as much as Meridian to Delaware.
Triple that a amount would’ve been a good start.
As usual, the state craps ion Marion County. E. Washington St. became a semi-truck-superhighway for two years.