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“how things used to be.” – They used to be BORING! As a 20+ year resident I love the changes and love my city more than ever.
I guess I am a naysayer. My ideal community is one that is connected through transportation choice. My ideal community is one where city leaders listen to my voice and take my concerns into consideration. My ideal community is where where I am not taxed for an amenity that I may never use. My ideal community is one where we find solutions to traffic congestion, not increase traffic congestion. If that is what makes me a naysayer, then I am proud to be a naysayer.
@John McDonald – You say that, “Achieving any ideal sense of place requires understanding and compromise…” My question is simple: How did our elected officials show “understanding and compromise” in this trail proposal?
From many residents’ perspective, the trail-only option was presented to the public as fait accompli. There was no genuine discussion or consideration of residents’ desires in a public forum, in order to reach a compromise solution. There was no data presented supporting the elected officials’ decision (but if you look at previous data collected by the City of Fishers in 2013, nearly 60% of Fishers respondents in a poll wanted rail access to Indy). It seems obvious that there is an ulterior motive driving this trail conversion – especially when a TRUE compromise (rail-with-trail) exists. Not only would that satisfy the desires of both camps of people, but it would be the most financially prudent solution to avoid a situation where the trail has to be torn up at some point in the future to reactive rail service.
On top of this all, Fishers, Noblesville, and Indianapolis have acknowledged their responsibility to preserve the corridor for future rail reactivation while concurrently planning to obstruct the future ability of rail on the corridor by encouraging INDOT to lower the interchanges at I-465/I-69 and I-65/I-70 to realize cost savings that can be put into the trail. This DIRECTLY controverts their responsibilities to the Federal Government as trail sponsors and risks the integrity of the corridor (even as a trail).
When an elected official in the City of Fishers asked me, “You know why the Nickel Plate trail is happening, don’t you?” I knew immediately that my suspicions of ulterior motives were confirmed. This elected official went on to say that local business interests submit a “Top 10” list each year, and a linear trail showed up on the top of that list in recent years. “At that point, the Mayor was committed to the trail regardless of whether it was his personal inclination to pursue it.”
The Nickel Plate Trail project is simply local elected officials pandering to business interests: which is why I’m not at all surprised that an executive at Fishers-based business has written this column.
Look, I don’t disagree that trails can be a wonderful amenities for a communities. But trails ARE NOT one-size fits all solutions. And in this particular case, a MUCH more logical solution that would provide recreation AND mobility opportunities for the future (rail-with-trail), was summarily dismissed and ignored (until a feasibility study was released nearly two years after the public first suggested that solution…going into an election season).
Let me be clear, us “naysayers” are much more concerned about a government turning its back to its people than we are about a rail vs. trail debate. This is just one of many manifestations of recent that confirm the suspicions of our elected officials to those of us paying attention.
My ideal community is one where taxpayers don’t subsidize private business owners who are friends of the mayor.