Comments on Advance Indiana™: Idiot Mayor Says They Won't Come If We Don't Build It

There are bus stops throughout Marion country with...

2013-01-25T08:39:57.084-05:00

There are bus stops throughout Marion country within walking distance of most everyone. Yet, while I drive around during the day the buses are mostly empty. Without the subsidy the one popular express bus ceased due to the fact it costs more than it is worth. The airport to downtown has also stopped (I think) and Greenwood was never viable. This is the typical dreamer Democrat liberal vision without reality. I am afraid that the flawed referendum system that does not fully inform people of the true costs will get this passed. By the way removing the local homestead credit and add this will add up for the Marion county actual taxpayers. More than chump change as they usually present in their convincing us stage. By the way, I miss Carl Moldthan and his junyard pursuit of the facts but you have taken his place. Thank you.

I always felt Marion County was in need of better ...

2013-01-24T07:43:33.042-05:00

I always felt Marion County was in need of better Mass Transit system, minus Light Rail.

My concern we might end up with 5 new buses and a huge bill as corporate consultants and sham Non-Profits skim off the top.

Given the revolving door between Government and the Private Sector you wonder where the Mayor will land after his term of office is up.

When Petersen increased coit 65% ole Greg said tha...

2013-01-24T00:54:04.308-05:00

When Petersen increased coit 65% ole Greg said that was outrageous and promised to roll back the tax increase if elected. What we got was the old Texas two-step, promise them anything than when you get elected claim you were misquoted.

Let's look at the Indy successes due to build it and they will come; new airport built one billion in debt and ridership at 8 year low, new convention center 250 million more in debt and smaller conventions and less participants.

Then there are the successes we have had building sports palaces; we tear down Market Square to build Conseco, kiss off another 180+ million and give all of the revenue generated by the new stadium to the Pacers and pay the building maintenance to boot and the old Market Square location is still a gravel lot and not collecting any taxes. We then tear down the Hoosier Dome to build Lucas, another brilliant plan, trash a 70+ million dollar stadium to build a 750+ million dollar stadium. We use the same convoluted logic as Conseco and give the lion's share of the revenue to the Colts.

Then on top of all of that stupidity we are creating TIFs in areas that don't need TIFs while ignoring areas that desperately need some form of incentives just to be decent areas to live.

So let's continue on to the next boondoggle and if we are really, really lucky there may still be enough chumps in Indianapolis to pay the bills for a little while longer. But I wouldn't count on it Mr. Mayor, nope I wouldn't count on that at all.

They've actually done studies on expansion of ...

2013-01-24T00:06:44.284-05:00

They've actually done studies on expansion of mass transit leading to new riders. They found the expansion leads to about a 2% increase. TWO PERCENT. That's the increase the Mayor is talking about when he says if you build it they will come. Yeah, 2% more will come.