The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce thinks a regional (as opposed to county) transit agency will help Indianapolis compete with regions such as “Minneapolis and Salt Lake City that offer extensive transit systems.” The Antiplanner disagrees, pointing out that the Indianapolis urban area is already growing twice as fast as Minneapolis or Salt Lake City, and higher taxes aren’t going to help.
Unmentioned is the fact that “regional transit” is generally a euphemism for rail transit, and that the proposal for a regional Indianapolis transit agency includes a plan for a low-capacity rail line. Basically, someone wants to spend a lot of money on obsolete transportation.
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Only about 17,000 Indianapolis-area workers live in households that lack cars. I’m not saying this should be done, but it would cost less, and do more for regional vitality, to give every one of those households a new Toyota Prius than to build a low-capacity rail line. With or without rail, Indianapolis doesn’t need regional transit.
No, no, “regional transit” is generally a euphemism for “make the prosperous suburbs pay for what the stagnating inner city can’t afford.
A new Toyota Prius? For me to drive that car, it would have to be free!
“…will help Indianapolis compete with regions such as “Minneapolis and Salt Lake City that offer extensive transit systems.”
In other words, the planners are jealous of what was done in other cities and they want to be able to show off wth other people’s money — no matter how much it hurts the public.
The big-government planners want every city and area to look alike–with the same expensive toys the planners want to play with.
Cities develop (or fail to develop) on their own. Paris is not London, which is not Berlin, which is not New York City, etc.
Indianapolis should not try to be Salt Lake City (unless the planners are going to build in the Rocky Mountains and salt flats). Oops–I better not give them any ideas.
Indy wants to be more like Minneapolis? That’s great to hear. Maybe Metro Transit can sell them their Northstar line which is costing more than $15 million a year for a paltry thousand people a day ( MPLS-STPL MSA has 3 1/4 million people ).