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Old 09-10-2010, 09:36 PM
 
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Wow! If this article is even half right, Indy sounds like it is purposely trying to bankrupt itself!

The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Indy’s “Son of Chicago” Parking Meter Lease to Be a Disaster for City
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Old 09-12-2010, 11:38 AM
 
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It is. Indy is blowing everything on getting money to pay for making the city look less like a disaster to the Super Bowl attendees. See Advance Indiana for great discussion on the subject.
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Old 09-13-2010, 09:34 AM
 
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It may not actually happen. Downtown merchants want parking plan revoked | Indianapolis Business Journal | IBJ.com
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Old 09-15-2010, 01:48 PM
 
Location: Indiana, USA
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I don't have the need to go downtown, but for $1.50Hr, they could forget it. That is a good way to abandoned downtown. But it'd give me a place to explore lol.
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Old 09-15-2010, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Englewood, Near Eastside Indy
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I don't have the need to go downtown, but for $1.50Hr, they could forget it. That is a good way to abandoned downtown. But it'd give me a place to explore lol.
Could you explain then how places like Milwaukee charge for parking throughout their city and yet, that city has not emptied out its urban areas?

A rate increase and modernization of the meters is long overdue. I would agree though that the city is right now going about it the wrong way.

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Old 09-15-2010, 05:13 PM
 
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Chicago meters downtown are now $4.50 an hour. Nothing much left there but tumbleweeds. London charges just to drive on the streets in the central city. Another once great world city reduced to ruins because people have to pay to bring their cars into the city.

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Old 09-26-2010, 11:01 AM
 
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Joe Loftus is the city’s chief statehouse lobbyist and a counselor to Mayor Greg Ballard. The city’s lobbyist registration shows Joe Loftus as registered to lobby for ACS, the company Ballard chose to award the potentially billion dollar parking meter privatization to.
Mitch Roob former vice president with ACS Inc. Roob was picked by Gov. Mitch Daniels to head Indiana’s largest state agency, the Family and Social Services Administration where Roob was the former Secretary of FSSA – better known as the Welfare Slum.
State Rep. Eric Turner and his son Paul Ezekiel Turner’s company, was in negotiations to buy the former Jones Middle School from Marion Community Schools. The school board voted to sell the building for $350,000 to Mainstreet Capital Partners LLC, a joint venture between “Zeke” Turner and his father. after receiving nearly $200,000 a year from ACS, the property has been assessed in excess of $7 million.
A guy named of “Skip” Stitt. I wonder what Skip is doing these days? Oh, you hadn’t heard? An officer with ACS.
Well, that explains why ACS gave its maximum allowable corporate donation of $5,000 to Daniels in 2008, and why Stitt gave $2,500 out of his own pocket. Campaign finance records also show $2,000 from Maryland native and ACS’ Chief Operating Officer Tom Burlin. Why would a guy from Maryland give to an Indiana Governor?
Then again, ACS wrote Governor Daniels a check for $5,000 in January of 2009. ACS also gave $2,000 each to the (R) Senate Majority Campaign Committee and the House Republican campaign committee, as well as $1,000 to the Indiana House Democratic Caucus.
These are only a few of the unethical dealings with Affiliated Computer Services. Several local Call Center Executives have questionable transactions. Most articles fail to mention.

“Now the new numbers have emerged with regard to the failed IBM deal, showing that the state spent $500 million on the failed deal, $442 million of which has gone directly to IBM as of the end of August. Guess where another $59 million has gone? That’s right. To ACS.” (nuvo)

If you want interesting insight into how ACS and FSSA have failed, google Carl Moldtham a few of the articles written of how Roob and his InBed Buddies treated a man trying to do the right thing.

Where's Washington's FEDS and FBI when you need them?
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Old 09-26-2010, 03:21 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Could you explain then how places like Milwaukee charge for parking throughout their city and yet, that city has not emptied out its urban areas?...
Because the rate they charge is reasonable. But then again Milwaukee is not exactly teeming with people.
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