The U.S. Department of Transportation has called Interstate 69 one of America’s six Corridors of the Future. Its route from Port Huron, Michigan, south through Indiana, to Brownsville, Texas is intended to facilitate trade with Canada and Mexico.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has called Interstate 69 one of America’s six Corridors of the Future. Its route from Port Huron, Michigan, south through Indiana, to Brownsville, Texas is intended to facilitate trade with Canada and Mexico.
INDOT is spending $30 million on environmental mitigation in Section 4 of I-69, which runs from the Crane Naval Base to Bloomington.
The state is holding a series of open houses that began yesterday in Indianapolis with more open houses set across the entire state through May 14.
Officials say they are cautiously optimistic there won’t be any backlash from INDOT for years of opposition to the road from county leaders.
A Monroe County judge has heard a case brought by the Indiana Department of Transportation against a pair of longtime Interstate 69 opponents.
Construction began Friday behind the home of long-time I-69 detractors Thomas and Sandra Tokarski
The groups say the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not accurately assess the environmental impacts of filling in waterways to build I-69.
INDOT is closing Carter Road on the southwest side of Monroe County beginning Monday, but some residents say they did not receive enough advanced warning.
Carter Road will close just east of the Monroe/Greene county line. Cul-de-sacs will be constructed through construction where crossroads meet up with Carter Rd.
There are several sizeable cracks in the asphalt just south of the Patoka River Bridge on the Pike/Gibson County Line.
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