tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post2034509629128020239..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Comments on Advance Indianaâ„¢: Why Does Indy's Red Line Cost Less Than Other BRTs?Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-36363691898761191702016-04-06T17:13:27.930-05:002016-04-06T17:13:27.930-05:00Statists behave as though they're the only cro...Statists behave as though they're the only crook stealing from the productive sector. There are too many crooks in corruption's kitchen...<br /><br />There is no right to deceive / commit fraud by referen-dumb.Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1885438893002906492016-04-05T19:57:44.720-05:002016-04-05T19:57:44.720-05:00This really isn't hard.
A bus driving down a ...This really isn't hard.<br /><br />A bus driving down a galley in the middle of the street is just that, a bus driving down a galley in the middle of the street.<br /><br />A bus driving on an elevated highway closed to all other vehicle traffic, with stations placed at distant intervals, is the closest thing you'll get to a bus being "rapid transit."<br /><br />Bus rapid transit has to look just like a train line, but with buses.<br /><br />Pittsburgh and Hartford have made some of the only real attempts at "bus rapid transit." <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-28307918882753903302016-04-04T22:52:20.516-05:002016-04-04T22:52:20.516-05:00Statists want to take us full dumbo-euro to includ...Statists want to take us full dumbo-euro to include Chamber Made ref-jihadist rapid rape 'n transit complete with rioting, increased crime 'n decreased security. Other than that, they is geniuses.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-80332013216816782582016-04-04T15:21:54.802-05:002016-04-04T15:21:54.802-05:00Good get, Gary. Thank you. I suspect the $96 mil...Good get, Gary. Thank you. I suspect the $96 million number has something to do with the Federal Small Starts grant of $75 million, without which there is no project. I read somewhere (maybe here) that without Obama's DOA $10/bbl tax on oil that the grant (which purportedly has been awarded) will never be funded. IndyGo themselves have gone on the record at IBJ and said that without the federal money this project is DOA.<br /><br />With all of that in mind, I suspect that they're going to try and use the sales tax as a means of securing other financing to build this thing, because I don't believe they're going to see a penny from Small Starts. If so, it's even MORE inadequate and will eventually balloon to .5 or a full percent which, of course, will chase even more business to the urban fringe, rendering the whole project worthless. Yep, that sounds about right. Business as usual, Indy-style. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-77765878729572972032016-04-04T13:19:08.523-05:002016-04-04T13:19:08.523-05:00On the southside, the line on Shelby Street will n...On the southside, the line on Shelby Street will not have stations in the median. Stations along that stretch will be on the outside. The plan is for the parking on each side to become full time and there will only be 1 lane in each direction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-25434474153293203352016-04-04T08:19:03.725-05:002016-04-04T08:19:03.725-05:00The Crony-Capitalist Pigs will feed at the Federal...The Crony-Capitalist Pigs will feed at the Federal, State, and Local Feeding Stations. They will leave us with piles of manure and pronounce it a success. Since this is a method for the Politicians to feed the Crony-Capitalists, all the so-called neighborhood groups who receive some scraps will be marshaled to back the Plan. <br /><br />Something simple like providing more service for existing routes would not fit the plan. The Plan in it's simplest terms is a scam. Floggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10383015097067413086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-71312421556154900662016-04-04T06:53:06.406-05:002016-04-04T06:53:06.406-05:00The Red Lie is another corrupt & bankrupt idea...The Red Lie is another corrupt & bankrupt idea; like Indiana's historic canal debacle. Principal proponents must be held accountable for their deceptive claims. It's time to compile a liars list. <br /><br />Statist idiots are likewise planning to ugly the canal with a concrete levy or graffitti magnet in the Butler area; literally constructing a barrier that threatens the life & property of those living on its other side in the Rocky Ripple area; for whom evacuation will be more difficult & their property subject to greater risk. Insurance companies (PC, Life) & banks (mortgage) should pay attention to what's going on here; on behalf of their customers & shareholders... Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8550247539362598342016-04-04T06:47:54.865-05:002016-04-04T06:47:54.865-05:00The plan for the Red Line along College Avenue wil...The plan for the Red Line along College Avenue will have dedicated north-south bus lanes with boarding stations located in the middle of the street. Left turns will not be allowed except in busier intersections. As conceived, it is a bus rapid transit line. Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-10416803900081917182016-04-04T06:40:20.139-05:002016-04-04T06:40:20.139-05:00Indy's College Avenue bus line is not, in any ...Indy's College Avenue bus line is not, in any way, "BRT," or "Bus Rapid Transit."<br /><br />Try not to laugh at a bus being called "rapid."<br /><br />BRT has dedicated busways, roads on which only a bus can travel.<br /><br />Indy's bad plan is making a grotesque form of bus-streetcar. <br /><br />The latest census showed that people are abandoning rotted-out, dense, unattractive urban cores and are migrating to the Sun Belt and the suburbs.<br /><br />Indy needs to quit shedding population by building what people want: wide, open roads, less density, large setbacks, abundant free parking, and all the good urban planning ideas of the 30'a - 80's.<br /><br />Cities that go out of their way to cater to a six-year range of the weirdest Millennials will be stuck with white elephants that will become quickly dated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-20691410567982362432016-04-03T20:21:54.694-05:002016-04-03T20:21:54.694-05:00We need a bus line that stops often all around tow...We need a bus line that stops often all around town not one freaking line! For the people that ride the bus lines not a bunch of well off people who will think it is cool. Aghhhhhhh oh well why get upset this will be a disaster. It's not if it doesn't work you can move the line. How about all those people who are always standing outside the gas - water company. Always the poor people on Merdian street.guy77moneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07248410686603913517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-74069741804746583952016-04-03T19:42:17.740-05:002016-04-03T19:42:17.740-05:00You are so persuasive and factual that the only re...You are so persuasive and factual that the only reasonable conclusion is that the proponents of this boondoggle are lying sacks of horse manure. But, it does offer Lying Joe an opportunity to shed that (perhaps unfair) epithet by doing hard nosed due diligence the failure of which would make him Peterson II. Democrats, in particular, haven't evinced any recognized ability to do hard nosed due diligence. They, like their Republican friends, find it a lot easier to roll over. The low balling of costs is a tried and true method of lying to the ignorant who, faced with sunk costs, can usually be reluctanly persuaded to accept a lower standard of living for their family because they are ignorant people....the kinds of people that politicians most easily betray. Counting on this our current sacks of manure are betting on the come. It would be a nice bit in their teeth to have some sort of agreement ahead of time that when the costs exceed their really stupid estimates then the project stops, they resign in disgrace, and they agree to have their wages garnished forever....(even if their surname is Mahern).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-258728975512835332016-04-03T19:13:13.803-05:002016-04-03T19:13:13.803-05:00I don't see how they are possibly going to put...I don't see how they are possibly going to put a platform bus stop in the median of Shelby St and still have a dedicated bus lane. I own an apt building on Shelby St across the street from Garfield Park. It's two lanes going north and two lanes going south. And one of those lanes going north is for parking except for 2 hrs in the morning for rush hour. How in the world are they going to squeeze a dedicated bus lane in there and a bus stop? Nobody has said anything to me about improvements being made on the street or sidewalks near my property.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com