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Chuck Surack is going to love this.
Don’t worry, I’m sure some legislator will be getting a check from Surack to introduce a bill that puts all heliports in a consolidated city (of which Indianapolis is the only one) under state control of INDOT or some nonsense.
Someone should ask Chuck how wise he think it would be to dedicate five acres of prime real estate in downtown Fort Wayne to … something as lightly used as the heliport. Indianapolis has grown to such a point that a heliport is a foolish use of land in that area, as a heliport could be located any number of other places … like at the old Diamond Chain site, which won’t be a true part of downtown until that steam plant is moved.
Nah Joe, I don’t think so. But only because I’m pretty dang sure that the State is playing a role behind the scenes regarding the MLS bid. Otherwise, they’d have already done something.
Jack Sandlin was introducing MLS stadium bills for several years, presumably on Ozdemir’s behalf.
I don’t disagree with you but I am curious if the change at the governor’s mansion brings about a change in support … both Holcomb and Young were very public with their support. No clue how Braun feels.
Pay attention to all the pieces that’s being moved in Indy so far. The approval of a zoning tax district to support a sports and entertainment district and pay for the stadium. The Old City hall development is a part of the tax district and will also be used to pay for the stadium. Indy working with an undisclosed investor group that’s had success in bringing MLS to other cities and the acquisition of land bought by the Simon family just show signs of the city working very hard to impress The MLS commissioner to approve Indy for an expansion team. I would be surprised if Indy isn’t awarded a team and the stadium along with a new sporting district isn’t built 2028
I don’t disagree with you Kevin. Some of those pieces were being moved on behalf of Republican donor Ersal Ozdemir. Will they stay in place for Joe Hogsett and the unnamed MLS group that presumably includes the Simon family?
Great News!!
Just as Uber is getting into the business of moving people by electric helicopters, Indy decides to tear down their heliport.
Let’s keep building antiquated transport systems like the Red, Blue and Purple lines that no one rides. Why look to the future of transportation?
Maybe bring back the canal system or trolley cars?
Yes, because Indianapolis has such high vehicular traffic congestion that there’s a market for people to take helicopters instead.
(It doesn’t.)
If there’s a giant market for this, I suggest Surack corners it by spending his money on a new eVTOL station out at the Diamond Chain site. Indiana is all about shifting the cost of transportation to users, let’s have helicopter owners shoulder the burden of a heliport.
I’d settle for Indianapolis doing what Denver has – a train that just goes from the airport to Union Station. It’d be huge for the convention business and the lines already exist.
would you please bring back the trolley system? Maybe then we could stop expanding 465 and I-69, and move people more efficiently from Fishers and Noblesville and Carmel to Indy, and vice versa. The Clearpath project as of EOY 2023 was budgeted for almost $600 million. Project isn’t due to finish until late 2026, so I expect that budget to increase by at least 25%. Plus annual pothole/road maintenance, snow and ice removal and salting. New lane lines.
And by 2027, folks will be clamoring for more lanes, higher speeds, more money…and the project will start anew…
Maybe you don’t ride the bus Bernard, but the tired trope that no one does is just false. Why do you think the Chamber of Commerce (hardly a bastion of progressiveness) fully supported the referendum to fund expansion of the transit system? Perhaps you are too well off to bother with the bus (an “elite” perhaps?) many people rely on it to get to their jobs in support of themselves and the local economy.
“I’d settle for Indianapolis doing what Denver has – a train that just goes from the airport to Union Station. It’d be huge for the convention business and the lines already exist.”
That will NEVER HAPPEN!!!! There is entirely to much FREIGHT traffic on those lines for CSX to allow it to happen!!!
There are two sets of tracks which go down to one shortly before the airport. I’m not asking to take them all over. Just … one set of tracks.
Being able to tell conventions that their folks can get from the airport to downtown in 10 minutes for free would be a huge asset.
This is a much better location than the Indy 11 project.