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First bit of advice, when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. No one was riding the redline to begin with and certainly aren’t now. Why build the other lines?
The bonds and funds have already been issued and committed. Additionally, employing those without jobs to construct a transit line is good policy.
They can return the funds. You don’t go buy a new car if you lose your job just because you have saved up a nice down payment. They need to work with what they have built now.
IndyGo cannot recall the issuance of bonds. That’s not how bond funding works.
Cant we stop using buses and the stops become Uber ride stops —with kiosks for electronic coupons for those in need?
That didn’t take long at all. All of this moonspinning is nothing but a thinly veiled windup for increasing the transportation tax.
So work on the Purple and Blue Lines will proceed apace, in spite of the fact that Red Line ridership declined steadily month after month after it opened, and COVID hadn’t even hit yet. Every day, those empty Red Line buses plying Meridian Street and College Avenue are a constant reminder that we need our traffic lanes returned to us again. Meanwhile, IndyGo says some other planned route improvements are on hold while they hurl more local, state and federal cash at these two more hilariously named ‘high-speed’ lines – lines which, by the way, require special buses that can’t be used on any other routes because of their special door modifications for center-lane stations. So is the proposed purchase of a new multi-million dollar IndyGo building complex on hold as well? As for those magical cost and loss of income projections that are really meaningless computer models, have they factored in the huge cost savings in diesel fuel for the bulk of their fleet that has come about with rock bottom oil prices for the foreseeable future? Or is that just a trifle, like those piddling ridership cashbox receipts, in comparison to the plump bounty of increasing taxes?
You got the nail on the head, I see a request for increase in taxes and the general populace will vote it in.
Here’s a wacky idea. Don’t spend any more of that federal cash for the Blue and Purple Lines. Send the money back to Washington and reduce the multi-trillion dollar federal deficit during these “difficult times.”
Oh silly me. I forget. That’s all ‘free money.’ Nobody actually pays for that because it comes from so far away from the federal cash fairies.
Hilarious and perfect line: “Nobody actually pays for that because it comes from so far away from the federal cash fairies.” Asking permission to steal it.
Completing a $100 million Red Line project one year before this unforeseen COVID mess has to sting. It’d be interesting to see the monthly number of riders for 2020.
Huh?? Why hasn’t IndyGo mentioned their proposed property tax increase to the public to cover shortfalls. That’s because that is the way they operate, hoping no one will notice their tiny public notice. Just how much do they request? $14,800,000. In addition, I received my handy IndyGo email on July 27th, with notice of a public meeting to discuss the issue of bonds totaling $25,800,000 to purchase new buses. The strange thing was, the meeting was scheduled that same day!! These folks are sneaky, to put it mildly.
Who do they run this property tax increase through? Doesn’t the legislature have to sign off on this? This is going to end up being a huge black hole of money for the city and taxpayers forever. Ridership down but spend more money because “build it and they will come”
Plunge ahead with the purple and blue lines now, as they figure they will get the money for the failed projects down the road. Wait prudently, and they might not be able to get funding for two more lines. The new building, too. I forgot the cost of that. What did they do with the $46 million federal grant – COVID relief? i might be mixed up on the latter. Does anyone recall the figure? Maybe I had a nightmare. So the Red Line is a flop, so hasten to build two more. I did not even see the property tax increase. I really can’t fathom how this reckless scheme came to fruition, as how does it enter one’s stream of consciousness to run a bus down the middle of major thoroughfares to begin with. Oh, that’s right, Indy is the first. Who cares….. I can’t figure out how they go this voted in. Were the votes mailed in?!
Yes they had California postmarks also. Lol