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Statehouse Republicans push this plan on Marion County, every Council Republican votes no, not one single Republican quoted as to how we got here or what their alternative is.
For those who wonder why Marion County Republicans get trounced every local election, now you know. They don’t have any alternatives for local voters.
+1000
What percentage of the vehicles on the roads in Marion County are registered in Marion County ? Maybe all of the license plate readers could be used to find that percentage . Why are the Statehouse Republicans wanting only some of the road users to be held responsible for maintaining the roads in Marion County ?
Because it’s politically advantageous for them to totally control how roads are funded and where the money goes, take the gas taxes their constituents pay and use them to subsidize roads in parts of Indiana where no one wants to live except their fellow Republica legislators, then convince you that it’s the fault of Indianapolis Democrats that the roads are bad.
Republicans are silent about the boondoggle that is the Mid-States Corridor. You could go a very long way to fix Indianapolis roads with the money being spent on a new highway that locals don’t want … that runs adjacent to an existing highway.
Multiple things are true…
1) Indianapolis already pays a wildly disproportionate amount of revenue in State gas tax and gets a fraction of it. We already pay more than our fair share and should get our fair share back.
2) Wheel taxes are too low. Much like with the Federal gas tax, elected leaders have been too chicken to adjust fees to the CPI to keep revenue study and to make sure that any increases aren’t sudden and don’t add undue pressure to households. On top of that, the average American vehicle has only gotten bigger and heavier, causing substantially more damage to streets.
3) The Indiana General Assembly and INDOT are wasting insane amounts of money on unnecessary highway widening projects and on new highways that aren’t needed. The Mid-States Corridor is a complete joke of a Project that will never see a positive RoI (in fact, none of Indiana’s bypass projects around small cities have seen positive RoI).
4) Indiana, broadly, needs to completely rethink how transportation projects are funded and what we build. Our transportation portfolio needs to be far more diverse than it is and it’s abundantly clear that we don’t have a tax structure which enables us to make necessary investments in road safety and quality, sidewalks, trails, public transport, and intercity services.
100% agree
One way to rethink transportation is for Indiana to require certain projects to be subject to referendum, such as the Mid-State Corridor (I refuse to call it Mid-States because it’s proposed in only 1 state.) The Legislature requires this for schools. And tolling isn’t such a bad thing especially on I70 where much of the traffic is from out of state.
This plan seems reasonable at 28 cents per day per car. The heavier vehicles are
Mostly commercial and 60-75 cents a day is no impact at all to them.
The problem with Hogsett’s plans all along has been spending half the money on traffic calming, new replaced handicap ramps, curbs, sidewalks, bike lanes and trails.
If the full $100M a year were spent on actually repaving of the streets and getting them all up to a safe and functional surface for driving, then all the other improvements could follow once the streets are fixed. Trying to do it all at once has allowed the majority of our streets to deteriorate to the point they are at today. This tax should dictate repaving as the primary purpose, and all the other pet projects to come after a threshold is met for safe and drivable streets.
Kevin, I think you should think that position through a little more.
First, you’re advocating throwing money away on infrastructure that isn’t needed. Use the example of the work ongoing on Madison Avenue. If we’re going to fix the road and rebuild it, there’s no reason to rebuild it as three lanes. That road hasn’t needed to be three lanes since the interstates were built.
Second, when you look at the infrastructure that is attracting Hoosiers, it’s all the things you list. You’re advocating for Indianapolis to not compete for residents, to go ahead and throw in the towel. That’s not an opinion – go look at what Carmel and Westfield and Fishers and Zionsville have in common. It’s not “safe and functional”. Sure, all that costs money. There are no free rides.
Kevin is advocating for doubling the cost and time a road would be closed just so his ride in from the suburbs is a little less bumpy. Luckily, our city leaders understand that there is more to infrastructure than just asphalt
What will happen vehicle owners will find a way to register their vehicles outside of Marion County .