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It’s more than Deja Vu, it’s replay, repeat, same old, same old, and on with stale inability to move forward with new and fresh thinking. In fact, it’s disappointing to see the dems unable to think beyond status quo.
Hopefully Maggie Lewis and the rest of the dumbocrat CC council entourage of do nothings can get DPW out in the city world, not just Center township, and tend to the freaking streets, roads. Like mowing brush and overgrowth from the right-of-ways. Do any of you who run the show even know what a right-of-way is? It’s the city’s property line of its property……that property being all your streets (which includes your streets, roads, avenues, drives and such). A classic example of ineptitude and lack of attention by DPW, your employees CC council, is cutting back the overgrowth out of your property, oh yes, your right-of-way, along the southbound lane of Railroad Road in Perry Township. Ahh, yes, I have written the Mayor’s Action Center (MAC) several times about the encroachment of overgrowth practically out and past the edge of the pavement. It’s a safety issue people so much that cars traveling south have to hug the centerline to not accidentally scratch their cars from the brush. If anyone were to swerve because of the brush encroachment, the possibility exists that the driver overcorrects and hits a northbound vehicle head-on. I was told by MAC to take my complaint to the adjoining property owner, that entity being the Indiana Railroad. Why should I need to contact them? The overgrowth is in the City’s right-of-way. So, CC council, why not visit the South side along this road, your property, and see how you navigate going south. Should I give you directions? And while you’re at it driving around, cruise up and down, right and left along your properties, but be careful dodging all the bumpy, crappy pavement. Spend some more dollars out of the Mayor’s deferred maintenance plan budget and fix your properties (your streets and roads). Oh, take a drive in the next few days going north on Madison Avenue that’s undergoing remodeling. Don’t drive the posted speed limit though because the holes in the curb lane will kill your vehicle. What a joke this location is. The general public should have the right to condemn this property of yours. And check out the interchange of Washington and Shadeland for overgrowth and trash. Let me know if you like what ya see, ha! Last, get DPW out and paint the lane lines every where and also the stop cross bars at every intersection (yeh, yeh, yeh, I know it’s too cold now). I haven’t conducted a survey, but most of these traffic control markings are worn away or at best barely visible. These are safety concerns for the driving public. I know you’ve all been preoccupied with sexual harassment. Ridiculous as that is….your boss should be held liable for allowing that matter to exist and now you have to spend big bucks of taxpayers money, defending the criminal fiasco. Money that could be spent on your streets and roads. Of course I doubt very much the democratic CC council will do anything let alone passing the message to DPW to get moving on your streets and roads maintenance and meaningful repairs. You can’t keep piling more and more road patching over years and years of previous road patching.
The west side of Railroad Rd, is NOT DPW ROW, it belongs to the Indiana Railroad, and is THEIR responsibility, and it is ALSO PRIVATE RAILROAD PROPERTY!!!
In the time it took to make this post you could have been a good citizen and just fixed it yourself instead of relying on the government to do things for you.
Meanwhile, INDOT is so flush with cash they’re building turn lanes up and down SR135.
I’ve got years of patch material in my yard. My Republican CCC member (Annee) told me the issue was the state of Indiana doesn’t give us enough money, and told me I should call up McGuire or Carrasco or Young or Freeman or Ireland and ask them where the funding is. Ask them why we have to provide infrastructure welfare to the rest of the state of Indiana when the taxpayers of Indiana are moving to the Indianapolis area and fleeing the parts of Indiana with nice, smooth, barely traveled state highways. Because for all Joe Hogsett’s many faults, the state stealing our gas tax dollars isn’t his fault.
The last time this collection of “local representatives” got together and “came through” for their constituents, it was a convoluted set of “matching funds” nonsense that required the city to find $100 million from a $1.6 billion budget to qualify for $100 million. They can’t help but legislate from the suburbs because they’re all too cowardly and they know they’d absolutely get blown out of the water in a mayoral election. They fail at their jobs every two budget cycles.
And don’t even start about how Freeman has made it his mission to stop IndyGo at all costs, when IndyGo is landing federal funding that allows for the roads to be properly rebuilt at the cost of a lane we don’t even need. He’s out here spreading nonsense like “Washington Street is the fastest way between Greenfield and Plainfield and must be kept as a highway through neighborhoods.” Maybe Freeman just doesn’t want you to realize the local bus system does more for roads than he does, or that he doesn’t know how to use Google Maps.
It should be pointed out that even when there was a Republican mayor, all Greg Ballard could muster to do was to sell off the parking meters for 75 years, then throw a new coat of asphalt on top of crumbling roads and declare victory. Because even selling off the parking meters was a band-aid.
I think what you should do is call up your legislator, Bob Behning, and ask him why he spends all his time worrying about charter schools and not fixing your roads.
You are wrong bud. There is always a right-of-way boundary line for every street and road anywhere. These telephone poles are a good indicator along the east boundary of the railroad’s property line which is coincidental with the city’s RoW line. Yeh, duh Indiana Railroad’s property is indeed private property but there is a strip of ground between the edge of the pavement and the railroad’s east property line that’s owned by the City. Yeh sure, DPW doesn’t own that strip per se. it’s the City’s responsibility, through its Fepartment of Public Works, to maintain. Just like any other street and road in this City. Take class in civil engineering to understand what a RoW line is.
Be a man and fix it yourself. Stop crying on the internet about the government not doing everything for you
Cheers on our Council creating such a vibrant homeless community that can ride the robust IndyGo bus system to stay warm and chase away paying clients. Noting spells success like empty Chinese electric busses rolling down streets that remind us of third world bombed out roads. Somalia is safer than the downtown area at night. Don’t incarcerate the kids shooting each other, they might grow up be democrat voters. I for one look forward to see how our Council will continue to amaze!
Hey Bernard, the downtown area has two homicides this year.
Nora has three.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/01/03/indianapolis-homicide-tracker-2025-shootings-stabbings-trauma/76448808007/
JJ Frankie J: what don’t you get? It’s not my freaking job to go and take care of the right-of-ways of the City’s streets and roads. I am a man and pay my fair share of property tax and expect the City to take care of safety issues on the roads. Now, do you get it?
I get that it doesn’t appear you understand how road funding works in this state, because if you did, you’d also be questioning why we spend our money is spent on projects we don’t need … and on roads that aren’t used in places where people don’t want to live any longer … and you wouldn’t be happy with the state legislators who silently stand by while your tax dollars get stolen.
Go drive out in rural Indiana on a state highway in one of the parts of Indiana where no one lives. Marvel at how smooth the road is. How well-built it is. Think to yourself, man, this is a nice road. Why spend all that money out here?
Stop 11 and SR135 was a two year state road project for an INTERSECTION that wasn’t needed and should have gotten done months sooner.
Madison is finally getting rebuilt down to the dirt and it will have less lanes, so less money will be needed going forward. It’s had declining usage for decades since the interstate was built. And yes, the potholes in the northbound lanes are awful but it doesn’t make sense to repave a road that will be torn up soon.
Yeh bro, I do know that Stop 11 and 135 project is fully funded by INDOT, not the City. I wasn’t even writing about road building projects by the State. My focus, in case you missed it, was simple maintenance matters. Like mowing along the shoulders, painting lane markings and filling potholes. By the City. If there’s no money for basic care and maintenance, then that’s simple mis-management. By the City. I can’t get the notion you’re thinking the City has no responsibility for maintaining its infrastructure. Almost sounds like you’re excusing the rulers.
There isn’t enough money coming in. There hasn’t been enough money for decades.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/transportation/2023/01/11/indiana-general-assembly-2023-lawmakers-unlikely-fix-road-funding-formula-counties-shortfall/69545615007/