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More decorating in the streets. Next up: Let’s “activate” portions of the interstate with “programming” – maybe a bounce house in the middle two lanes of I-465, or a selfie station at the merge point of I-65 and I-70. If it snarls traffic, it has to be a good thing for the city – right?
That’s the most harebrained straw man I’ve seen in some time! I commend you on your creative use of exaggeration to state your belief that cars are more important than a thriving downtown.
But if you want to play, let’s play. Yes, we should have demolished or bury the I-65/70 connector and restore a functional east side. Traffic is a symptom of our insistence that Fishers commuters are more important than downtown residents, and it’s time to stop it.
Richard understands it all. Charles not so much.
We have, in the above comment, the essence of the anti-car plaint: “Cars are more important than a thriving downtown”. As if that is the choice. Do tell, Charles M., your vision for a thriving downtown Indianapolis with no cars.
I love that we close like 2,000 sq feet of pavement in the third most paved downtown in the country and Richard is calling it a carless downtown. There’s being willfully obtuse and then there’s this take…
We have so many downtown open spaces, parks, plazas, trails, the canal, the City Market, the City Co building plaza-Lugar Plaza, University Park, just to name a few, that are all under used, all underutilized, under programmed, and lack any real dynamics and civic gatherings. The Spark could maybe help reinvigorate some of those spaces instead of the right-of-way! The Circle Spark is nothing more than an ‘adult-kids playground’. The kids in charge of our planning today want instant gratification, but not willing take on the complex challenge of sparking what we have, except using public rights-of-way of existing iconic spaces. Because the circle spark is city sponsored, all of a sudden we have more police presence. All of a sudden less homeless and vagrants, all of a sudden it appears the circle can be a safer place due to the police presence. What a surprise the police presence can make.
To remove a quarter of a never ending circle basically cripples the space. The triangle in Detroit only removed one leg of the triangle, thus allowing the car to still reach all 3 points, can’t do that with removing part of a circle.
Let this be a summer experiment for the trendy, but let’s try and spark what we already have in the permanent open spaces we let sit idle.
Amen, brother.
Vonnegut: “Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
You say ‘adult-kids playground’ as if that is a bad thing . . . ?
Downtown has one single playground, and very few spaces for kids. The city desperately needs more ‘adult-kids playground’ spaces! We should have Spark type operations in each of public space you listed.
There’s always been a high police presence. That’s not new.
As usual, most of the naysayers likely don’t even live in or near downtown. If you want to have real input, run for office or simply attend a public meeting. Spouting off your vitriol on media comment pages like this or on social media to your buddies doesn’t make any meaningful contribution.