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That editorial is the usual response of those who are unable to argue the facts: try to shut off debate.
We are indeed being “saddled with a carelessly considered, luxury system.” When not a single publication explained how much the added transportation would cost per passenger mile, when IndyGo repeatedly refused to divulge that information, when its CEO took to the papers with grossly misleading factoids, and when IndyGo relied on studies containing flagrant falsehoods, the system was carelessly considered.
The press and the City-County Council failed to investigate or consider the city at large.
A mere 5% of the Purple Line’s capital cost would buy twice as many rides by cab as the Purple Line will add to its corridor by bus—and that’s before any ongoing operating expenses. This is but one of the many financial obscenities that IndyGo’s campaign of deception has visited upon the citizens of Indianapolis. And the press played along–as did the City-County Council.
Before imposing a transit tax, a conscientious city council would have considered, say, a Franklin Township produce manager whose son is struggling in Algebra II. The $80 in transit tax he pays could have provided his boy a couple of tutoring sessions. Instead that $80 will add as few as two bus rides.
A conscientious city council would not have ignored the fact that a Washington Township dog walker could have filled her daughter’s lunch box for a month on the $60 she pays in transit tax. But by all appearances the council we have would rather spare FedEx the need to pay wages high enough to justify an unsubsidized commute.
Why else would no one hold IndyGo’s feet to the fire when it stiff-armed a ridership-projection request at the May Municipal Corporations Committee meeting? Why else would Councilor Adamson thereupon—with a straight face—commend IndyGo for its willingness to answer tough questions?
No, the time for debate is not over; because of the press, no meaningful debate ever got started.