ORBP: "Indiana’s worst transportation finance decision since the 1830s epic canal fiasco that bankrupted the state."

Silence remains somewhat other than golden, but let's not drag folks like Diane Benedetti, Kerry Stemler and Ed Clere into a discussion of how Hoosiers are being "thrown under the bus" by St. Daniels.

Wouldn't want them to have to think, or anything uppity like that.

Hey, you on the Bridges Authority ... could you pass the Kool-Aid, please?

Media Finally Wakes Up to Louisville Tunnel Boondoggle, But Misses the Bigger Picture, by Aaron Renn (Urbanophile)

The Indianapolis Star finally did a report this weekend covering the ridiculousness of Indiana taxpayers and motorists paying for a $255 million “tunnel under the trees” in Kentucky as part of the Ohio River bridges project.

Their article is a good one, and reveals that Kentucky officials deliberately listed the property as historic to drive up the cost of the bridge project as a poison pill attempt. Though the headline should better have been phrased as a question: “Why Exactly Is Indiana Paying $255 to Tunnel Under Kentucky’s Trees?” The only answer seems to be because Mitch Daniels wants to ...

... It’s stunning to me that, to burnish his legacy by getting a bridge project done that had eluded both states for 40 years, Mitch Daniels is willing to throw Hoosier taxpayers and motorists under the bus like this. This is a deal that will live in infamy as Indiana’s worst transportation finance decision since the 1830s epic canal fiasco that bankrupted the state. I cannot think of another governor in modern times who so clearly acted contrary to his own constituents’ financial interests in a transportation project.