IndyGo To Raise Fares; Guv To Leave Town
IndyGo, the Circle City’s pathetic excuse for mass transit, has decided to raise fares again. Why do you suppose that this would be necessary? Could it be due to the fact that nobody rides IndyGo because of the crappy service? Because commuters don’t want to spend three hours in travel time to and from work when they can drive the same distance in 30 minutes? The lack of lines running anywhere except downtown and into Hendricks County with any frequency? The fact that one is forced to stand in the rain, snow, or cold to catch the bus? IndyGo is a leaking septic tank of a service that won’t be fixed by commuter income.
Single fare rates will increase from $1.25 to $1.50. Day passes will increase from $3.00 to $3.50. Seven day passes will expand from $15.00 to $17.00. Thirty-one day passes will increase from $50.00 to $55.00. The new rates will be effective December 31, 2006. There will be a public meeting to discuss the fare increases on November 14, 2006 at the City Market, on the 2nd floor of the East Wing at 6:00 PM. But it will be an exercise in futility; the decision has been taken.
In related news, Governor Mitch Daniels has decided to put money that could have been used to help bolster public transportation into a connector beltway around the city of Indianapolis that will serve to add to the problem of individual vehicles on the roads, and will also destroy prime farmland and untouched environment while invoking more eminent domain law. Undoubtedly this is a boon to business development, but at what cost? Is Indy to become another “donut hole” city in the Midwest, crumbling with disuse as suburbanites sprawl out to take over the surrounding countryside?
Daniels doesn’t cater to the cities because his voters and political contributers don’t live in the cities.
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