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INDOT
State OKs private financing for roadwork
May 4, 2013
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Indiana Department of Transportation will press ahead with a request for proposals on Interstate 69 from Bloomington to
Martinsville, in hopes that a public-private partnership will stretch limited state funds.
MorePush for I-70 truck lanes hits roadblock in study
March 30, 2013
Scott OlsonEconomy, high cost of construction cited as factors.
MoreI-69 leg gobbling up state's road funding
February 9, 2013
Chris O'MalleyAs legislators brace for a $250 million annual transportation spending gap down the road, the Indiana Department of Transportation
has designated more than one-third of its entire federal highway aid this year toward building 27 miles of Interstate 69 between
Crane and Bloomington.
MoreState scrubs contractor-financing plan for U.S. 31
June 30, 2012
Chris O'MalleyINDOT still plans to complete project three years sooner with traditional financing.
MoreConexus: State growth will slow without more infrastructure investments
June 2, 2012
Chris O'MalleyNearly all of the $3.8 billion the state received from leasing its toll road is spent or committed, and Conexus Indiana says
roads and bridges are crumbling again. How does the group, which focuses on manufacturing and logistics, recommend paying
for infrastructure improvements? In effect, by raising taxes.
MoreState to motorists: You break it, you buy it
February 18, 2012
Chris O'MalleyCrash into a guardrail and chances are now higher that your insurer—or you—will get a repair bill from the Indiana
Department of Transportation. INDOT has deployed a new way of tracking damage to state property at crash scenes and quickly
collecting money from those responsible.
MoreIDEM: I-69 construction affecting streams
February 18, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe Indiana Department of Transportation and a contractor on the Interstate 69 project downstate have been cited for more
than a dozen deficiencies in preventing erosion and the flow of sediment into streams.
MoreState eyes roundabouts for 31 intersections
January 7, 2012
Chris O'MalleyThe Indiana Department of Transportation has ambitious plans to build roundabouts at 31 intersections statewide over the next
five years, including a dozen in the metro area.
MoreNew road contracts are built for speed
December 10, 2011
Chris O'MalleyA bidding method being used more often by the state is likely to reduce misery for motorists and merchants in the path of
a highway project. Project completion time is now a major consideration in reviewing road-work bids that were traditionally
evaluated almost entirely on cost.
MoreState signs sponsor for road-side assistance program
October 22, 2011
IBJ StaffState Farm Insurance will pay $1.25 million over the next three years to sponsor the Hoosier Helper program.
MoreAllisonville bridge closure will be abbreviated
August 27, 2011
IBJ StaffThe Indiana Department of Transportation will close the busy span over Interstate 465 for five months instead of seven.
MoreNotorious I-69 interchange slated for big upgrade
July 16, 2011
Chris O'MalleyGetting onto and off of Interstate 69 at the 116th Street exit has long been a nail-biting experience, but traffic planners
are about to propose reconstruction to unplug the bottleneck.
MoreINDOT seeks public input for state's rail transportation plan
May 28, 2011
IBJ StaffFreight and passenger rail are subject of long-range planning events.
MoreIs INDOT bypassing public on planning?
May 21, 2011
Chris O'MalleyGroups that perennially press the Indiana Department of Transportation to broaden its vision of mobility beyond highways now
accuse the agency of “significant ineptitude or willful disregard” in eliciting public input.
MoreGroups file suit to stop I-69 work downstate
February 10, 2011
IBJ Staff, Chris O'MalleyEnvironmental and citizens groups seek to stop construction of the 142-mile link between Evansville and Indianapolis, saying
it will destroy valuable natural resources.
MoreKey road projects await busy INDOT
January 1, 2011
Chris O'MalleyThe ongoing rehab of Interstate 465 will continue to be the biggest highway project in the metro area in 2011, but the rebuilding
of an 11-mile segment on the west side could be all but finished by the end of the year—just when other significant
highway projects will get under way in the metro area.
MoreINDOT lays off 30 employees in budget move
September 26, 2010
Associated PressGov. Mitch Daniels said the layoffs were "one of the very, very few involuntary reductions" that Indiana government has had
to make to cut spending.
MoreINDOT commissioner to step down for Duke Energy post
June 9, 2010
Indiana Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Reed is resigning to become president of Duke Energy's Indiana
operations. Michael B. Cline, INDOT's deputy commissioner of operations, will replace him.
MoreI-69 connection staying put, even with higher costs
May 29, 2010
IBJ StaffSome have suggested moving it west, through less-populated Morgan County, to tie into Interstate 70 near Indianapolis International
Airport.
MoreFairgrounds' digital billboard is exception to county ban
January 2, 2010
Cory SchoutenClear Channel Outdoor is building Marion County’s first full-size digital billboard along Fall Creek Parkway on the
grounds of the Indiana State Fair. The first message might as well be: Take that, Indianapolis!
MoreINDOT using federal funds to improve transportation options near schools
December 12, 2009
IBJ StaffThe Safe Routes to School program “aims to influence a new generation of healthy, sustainable travel
behavior,” says INDOT.
MoreIndy route not part of high-speed rail funding application
November 14, 2009
Chris O'MalleyThe decision to sidetrack a 110-mph Chicago-Indianapolis-Cincinnati train hasn’t received any attention
locally. High-speed rail could someday become an economic development engine here, but it has
not gained as much attention here as improved highways or a commuter rail line from downtown to Noblesville.
MoreINDOT hires executive to manage Interstate 69 extension
July 27, 2009
IBJ StaffCost management was the operative phrase in the introduction this month of a highway executive to manage the Interstate
69 extension to Evansville.
MoreAgreement forces INDOT to clean rest areas
December 4, 2006
Chris O'MalleyMany of Indiana's 36 rest areas have in recent years dumped illegal amounts of ammonia nitrogen and E.coli bacteria into nearby
streams, state records show.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.