Comments on Advance Indiana™: Council Committee Members Utterly Fail To Ask Tough Questions About BRT

It's time to start attending those CCC meeting...

2016-04-07T18:52:34.309-05:00

It's time to start attending those CCC meetings where there might be a new mascot, in the spirit of chicken succession...

As I understand it, the $75 million Smart Starts m...

2016-04-07T16:09:13.199-05:00

As I understand it, the $75 million Smart Starts money that purportedly has been awarded to build this thing is dependent on Obama's $10/bbl oil tax getting through Congress. Without the tax, there's no $75 million. In the IBJ a few months ago, IndyGo said there was no Plan B. I'm guessing the Banksters showed our illiterate "leaders" Plan B. Pass a referendum. Collateralize the tax and borrow against it to fund construction. I believe that's the scheme. All of the cronies from banking to construction win. Everybody else pays, and it's gonna be a lot more than 0.25% when this is said and done. These people are literally treating the city the way a band of rogue pirates treats a sitting duck on the open sea. It's gonna end the same way, too, because there are no Marines coming to save Indy from its corrupt and morally bankrupt leadership.

The new Red Line is actually a straight line that ...

2016-04-07T11:53:58.102-05:00

The new Red Line is actually a straight line that will bypass some current routes. May we define rapid transit as less neighborhood stops or will the speed of buses be twice as fast to achieve a reduced 15 minute wait? It would seem that adding a bus or two would have the same result in reducing the maximum wait of 30 minutes. The Red Line College Avenue route logically should end at 66th St. as there is little development from there north to Carmel. If Castleton is your destination, bus 19 runs every 30 minutes from Glendale Mall.

An additional purpose of the .25% local tax is to line the coffers of IndyGo to improve the infrastructure of Blue and Purple lines which will still rely upon the lengthy and uncertain process of obtaining Federal grants. Where tax money will be spent in the meantime is uncertain.

The proposed plan does not even comport to SB 176 as the current plan is to hold ridership fares at 17% of cost while a 50% increase in fares is in order.

If the referendum passes, you can tell the Chamber of Commerce they have taxed my way out of here.

There is no right of public officials to commit fr...

2016-04-06T17:08:44.874-05:00

There is no right of public officials to commit fraud, overtly or by commission; a problem which invites legal action...

It always amazes me that some special interests wa...

2016-04-06T15:01:59.927-05:00

It always amazes me that some special interests want to continually add more text to support government entities that will not provide any benefit to the vast majority of the public. I live in the area of Indianapolis where there's no sidewalks traffic and road conditions are horrible and when one of the streets go down for repairs it's literally chaos try to navigate around it. Maybe the city of Indianapolis will be better suited to provide the basic services for the people rather than trying to go out and build Advanced Rapid Transit lines that will not benefit the masses. If anyone thinks that the that the quarter percent tax increase on your income tax will be the only increase then you have a rude awakening coming down the line. This is nothing but a giant black hole to throw our money into and a giant Boondock.

The best that the CCC can do is to not have the Re...

2016-04-06T13:28:37.848-05:00

The best that the CCC can do is to not have the Red Line referendum put on the November ballot. The Indiana Statehouse is were these types of proposals are enacted into law and home rule takes an entirely different meaning when operating through Unigov. The initial segment of the Red Line will be built whether we like it or not. TIF money will be spent and the INDOT budget will expand on the backs of Marion County taxpayers.

What a surprise. America's most worthless City...

2016-04-06T08:37:03.986-05:00

What a surprise. America's most worthless City County Council. How DO these people sleep at night???

And they laugh at me when I advocate to DISBAND THE INDIANAPOLIS CITY COUNTY COUNCIL. Who needs this group of useless flesh who would be unable to secure meaningful employment in what remains of the private sector

Indy taxpayers are better off pissing in the wind where at least they will get some return of what is squeezed out of them.

It is sad that some of our elected officials are o...

2016-04-06T08:20:38.564-05:00

It is sad that some of our elected officials are only in it for the wealth and power, and the local citizens end up footing the bill. Their should not be any cost over runs on any project, and if there is then the building should eat the cost over runs even if it bankruptcy's them.

You didn't think McQuillen appointed Colleen F...

2016-04-06T07:19:45.970-05:00

You didn't think McQuillen appointed Colleen Fanning, Jeff Miller and Scott Kreider to that committee to ask any tough questions about the proposal did you? You may as well have put the lobbyists for mass transit on the committee as to having them on the committee to cast a vote.