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The automotive and oil and gas industries want you to drive. They will do everything in their power to stop cities from changing in a way that makes it easy to use alternatives. If your city has a climate plan that doesn't include a robust strategy for dealing with this, I can guarantee it will be "two steps forward, one step back" until we're simultaneously burning and drowing in the climate crisis.

 Indiana lawmakers are returning to the Statehouse in the new year to consider several bills, including proposals that could impact how people in Marion County get around. The bills could impact public transportation and cars on the roads. Sen. Aaron Freeman (R-Dist. 32) has filed two bills that deal with both issues. One would affect public transportation and IndyGo's plan to build the Blue Line. The other deals with the no-turn-on-red signs installed in Marion County in this summer. Both are topics Freeman addressed with proposals in past sessions. Senate Bill 52 would prohibit public transportation projects, like IndyGo's proposed Blue Line, from using dedicated street lanes for buses only. The Blue Line would run along East Washington Street and connect the Cumberland area to Indianapolis International Airport. Currently, Washington Street has two lanes for traffic in each direction with a middle lane for turns. The Blue Line would eliminate one lane in each direction to make way for a dedicated lane only for a rapid transit bus. Freeman says that will just slow down traffic.

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“The $37 million overhaul of the structure is fully funded by the King County parks levy, Amazon, money from the state’s sale of carbon credits, Bellevue and Kaiser Permanente.” My thanks to Amazon, Kaiser Permanente and the guy in Asotin County that filled up his gas tank to pay for our bridge in Bellevue. I’m grateful for the voluntary private-sector contributions, and voters chose to support the parks levies in King County and Bellevue, but the Climate Commitment Act doubled the gas tax for the purpose of reducing carbon emissions and achieving the State’s goal of reaching net zero by 2050. The gas tax proceeds have created a multi-blllion dollar slush fund, and the money is being spent on projects that have as much to do with political graft as they do with reducing carbon emissions. It cannot be credibly argued that funding the restoration of a railroad trestle into a bike bridge is key to achieving net zero carbon emissions. And this project is not unique. See the link to the CCA’s current project funding list in the comments. We are only in Period 1 of the CCA. Starting in 2027, and every four years after that, the gas tax increases go up, and up, and up. If you agree that this is not the right path, I-2117 is the solution. Please vote this November.

It's not obvious where bike lanes should go. It's the job of city planners to sort out on a case by case basis. This is not a provincial issue, but it's on the trend of the political right disavowing evidence based policy and embracing authoritarianism. Politicians are not experts...it's the job of the civil service to frame the (political) trade-offs and the politicians get to choose on that level and be accountable. Politicians deciding the answer before the civil service speaks is short-circuiting the process. You're going to say..."the bike lanes were empty and the traffic is backed up". This is a stupid argument. City planners know how to count, and they do. No one denies that eliminating a car lane reduces single car traffic flow, but there are other metrics of success than flow of traffic down the street in question. Are you briefed on the entire scope of interconnected transportation, housing, zoning, and environmental plans? So read up on that and get back to us, or you could let the people who did their homework also do their jobs. But if you want to say "bikes are stupid, cars rule!, and I don't care about anything else" that's a politically legitimate expression. I suppose we could all live with that if it's the majority opinion. But I'd say that's unsophisticated and difficult to align with your self assessment as "smart".