Finally! Someone Is Listening!

I've stated for some time the most common sense *DUH!* way to jumpstart some form of mass transit around Indianapolis is not spending billions on new systems that may or may not get used. Rather, utilize what is in place first and THEN expand upon that.

The biggest *DUH* is of course the commuting routes from the northeast side of Indianapolis and Fishers/Noblesville to downtown Indianapolis. The driving route is I-69 to Binford to Fall Creek then depending upon your destination either Central, Penn, Meridian, or Capitol. And yet the Nickel Plate railway line (also known as the "Fair Train") runs along a majority of the route.

Use the Fair Train to get as far south as it will go, say the Fairgrounds. IndyGo can surely get funding to fund a shuttle service to go from the Fairgrounds and feed into the downtown loop.

It seems like such a common sense answer. Well finally common sense is prevailing as steps are underway to operate a commuter rail on the Fair Train railway. Though IndyGo is not mentioned in the article, there could be funding to repair sections of the line to actually bring the train into downtown.

This can only be a positive for Indianapolis if this comes to fruition.