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Why does everything depend on volunteers? How is there now budget for the most basic of services? Can we start with the abundance of low hanging fruit? Can we not begin with getting the cross walk zebra-stripe to a good shape -thooughout the city they are uniformly horrible to non-existent. Let’s start with the city center crosswalks. The behavior of drivers is largely determined by the visual cues they see. Increased visibility helps ensure that drives are aware of the presence of crosswalks and the likelihood pedestrians will be crossing the road there. They also encourage pedestrians to cross in safe designated areas and make them more visible to drivers. Raise cross walks and install flashing beacons to further raise pedestrian visibility and driver awareness that pedestrians are present. Finally, an 80% drop in traffic citations over 20 years from 60k to 12k per year – SERIOUSLY?!! Above all why not increase enforcement? The installation of speed cameras to automatically ticket cars driving too fast on city center streets would help a lot. Combined, these will increase pedestrian safety substantial without imposing undue cost on safe and legitimate drivers who abide by traffic laws.
Property tax caps, the inability to collect a local option sales tax (all sales tax goes to State or CIB), and a lot of infrastructure liability with a low-density population has consequences. Indy has an operating budget of $1.6B for ~950,000 people spread over 400 square miles. By comparison, Denver has a budget of $4 billion for ~150 square miles, Minneapolis has $1.8B for just 58 square miles, and Detroit has $2.7B for 142 square miles. The reality is that our local agencies are being crushed under the realities of a lot of things to take care of and an extremely constrained capacity to execute.
You need to include an analysis of the data for your readers and include causes for these fatalities— drivers running red lights? Pedestrians and cyclists ignoring traffic lights/signs? What are the top most dangerous intersections for these fatalists and could public resources be used most effectively by fixing those top spots? Citizens need more information to determine if the Council’s current one-size fits all approach is the best one. And it’s hard to take this seriously as a top priority for the Council when it ignores completely the skyrocketing rise in the number of pedestrians who are panhandling out in the middle of the city’s busiest intersections at peak traffic times of the day.
This from the same city government that can’t be bothered to properly stripe crosswalks with white rectangles that indicate “crosswalk.” They allow the Cultural Trail and others to use crosswalks as marketing surfaces, featuring curlicues, bright colors and the names of rich donors. At least pedestrians have something garish to look down at and focus on as they get run over.
I just wish we would expend this kind of effort on our out of control murder rate.
I’m in favor of ticketing anyone parked in a crosswalk. It would be more effective than the no turn on red signs. You’re either paying attention or you’re not.