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The best defense that counties have to changing the road formula is “hey, bridges cost a lot of money, and if you’re going to change the funding, we can’t possibly pay for bridges too”.
Indiana has to stop underfunding infrastructure. We don’t need House leadership (Jim Pressel, in charge of the Roads and Transportation committee, who hails from the 550 person unincorporated and stoplight free metropolis that is Rolling Prairie) saying ridiculous things like
“I feel that we have enough of the revenue stream. It’s: how you you divvy it up? I think there’s plenty of dollars there to do what really needs to be done … to do maintenance.”
Joe, I share your admonishment and disdain. The entire STATE has a vested interest in Marion county and the STATE’s Capitol. Years of ridiculous, rural designed infrastructure formulation has left Indianapolis with some of the least maintained roads and sidewalks of any state Capitol or major city in the country. There are many ways in which to correct this ongoing problem. One of which might be a fixed percentage of general tax funds automatically being dedicated to Marion county infrastructure each legislative budgetary session. If northwest Indiana can somehow garner billions to expand and upgrade rail service in order to facilitate public transportation to and from Chicago, then surely Indianapolis can at least have enough to repair city streets that, in some cases, haven’t had meaningful maintenance for 50-60-70 years. The current appropriation formula is woefully inadequate. Something needs to change, and soon!
I would argue underfunding infrastructure is a statewide problem and it’s been abated in rural parts of Indiana by taking money from the urban areas and spreading it elsewhere.
Both the amount of money collected and the amount distributed between state highways and local infrastructure should be re-examined. In my travels I’ve seen lots of marvelous looking state highways that … I would argue don’t get as much use as many local roads in Indianapolis.
Which I’m fine with – we should build our roads to a high standard so they last a long time – but it shouldn’t come at the cost of other units of government.
This was actually beneficial. Thanks Ryan!
“The question is whether the state should focus funding on units with larger infrastructure responsibilities.” Urban areas by their very nature have larger infrastructure responsibilities than do rural areas.