Analysis shows Indiana needs nearly $1B more to maintain local roads, bridges

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11 thoughts on “Analysis shows Indiana needs nearly $1B more to maintain local roads, bridges

  1. Yet we keep building new roads that we have no plan to fund repairs on for the future. Unending sprawl has real costs. I’m not confident in our leadership that grossly underfunds the largest city and largest single contributor to the economy of our state to do anything about it. All of our surrounding neighbors have better roads and infrastructure than “the state that works”. We keep cutting taxes to the detriment or infrastructure, education and public health. We’re at the point that being “low cost” isn’t attractive if the populace cannot drive on the roads, or are too sick or stupid for a job creating corporation to expand. The race to the bottom is here.

    1. Amen! See: unnecessary “Mid-Continent” Owensboro-to-Crane interstate-grade highway, and an unnecessary upgrade to US30 for the whiny Warsaw interests.

      Meanwhile, roads that really need expansion/upgrade to serve the Central Indiana “logistics hub” (warehouses and FedEx) like I-70 and I-65 to at least six lanes across the whole state, the SE leg of I-465 to eight lanes, and upgrading all of US31 to interstate grade…just keep waiting.

    2. Appears to me legislators have kicked the can down the road too long and the bill is coming due.

      It’s sad when the best avenue for Indianapolis to get roads fixed is to run dedicated bus lines down them to attract sweet federal funding, but until the state of Indiana is willing to help, maybe the answer is to expand IndyGo, Aaron Freeman’s of the world be dammed.

  2. Perhaps the cost of road repair and maintenance wouldn’t be so much if we didn’t have as many major projects going at once. Let’s let the flatwork dry up a bit to give some breathing room to the crews doing the work. this would help make sure a crew can be dedicated to the specific project, get it done on time and likely at a lower cost.

  3. I’m a little lost. Either the headline or the article ignores a recent study the JUST INDIANAPOLIS needed 0.75 to 1.5 billion dollars to get roads to a grade of “average”. So shouldn’t this read “Indiana needs nearly $2 Billion”

  4. Dedicated TOLLED commercial truck lanes that circumvent downtown loop. Must exit weigh/toll booths. Begin in Hancock end in Hendricks. State should have listened to Mitch Daniels on ‘outer loop’ when it was feasible 20+ years ago. Why all commuter trains and tolled highways are ONLY in northern Indiana to serve primarily Chicago is beyond me.

    1. How about tolling semi trucks that choose to drive through downtown Indianapolis during rush hour…

    2. 1. Ban trucks on the inner loop except local deliveries. Probably wouldn’t work since we don’t enforce traffic laws, but it’s worth a try. It works on Meridian Street.
      2. Fix the stupid left-hand onramp at MLK to SB65 and eliminate the weave from there to 70…or make it for 65SB only as was done with the 11th St. onramp to 70.
      3. Make 65 and 70 two through lanes each on both sides through the north and south splits and widen the viaduct between 70 and MLK to four lanes each way. Allowing 10 or 12 ONS homeowners to prevent expansion to where the road needs to be for safety was totally wrong.

  5. Upgrade I-465 on the northwest side at I-865 this two-lane ramp needs to be totally redesigned. Such an embarrassment that this and I-465 and I-65 interchange has not been upgraded. Also I-65 needs to be widened from I-465 to I-865 northwest Marion County.

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