Nonpartisan advocacy organization Rethink Coalition and Indy Chamber have proposed a massive, $506.4 million plan that would “cap” the interstate from Virginia Avenue to Fletcher Avenue with developable land.
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The state released its bid to toll Interstate 70 this month after a public records request by the Capital Chronicle. The east-west route would be widened to six lanes, border to border.
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A new study calls for the Interstate 65/70 “Southeast Gateway” to go underground, creating land on top of the highways to spur economic development and urban connectivity.
The Braun administration told federal officials it would use the revenue to widen the interstate to six lanes from the Illinois to the Ohio state lines.
Indiana legislators are looking to give themselves more say over big-ticket highway projects at a time when a proposal in Gov. Mike Braun’s hometown is facing significant local opposition.
A provision added to the northwest Indiana stadium bill would require State Budget Committee review of any highway project with a price tag of at least $250 million.
INDOT had planned a “major” interchange project near Whitestown but will now break that into three smaller projects.
The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program requires state and local transportation agencies to award some contracts to businesses certified as disadvantaged business enterprises.
Indiana lawmakers advanced road-funding legislation Monday morning without a provision that would have allowed Indianapolis to pose a referendum to its residents to pay for road improvements.
The final portion of the 150-mile project was completed with the opening of a newly built interchange linking I-69 and I-465.
In a final report, the task force found that improvements to Indiana’s road and bridge network should be paid by those who benefit from the network “in proportion to their use.”
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that the new rule will save 50 lives per year and prevent 500 injuries when fully in effect.
County leaders are working to create the 65/47 Economic Development Area, the first step toward spurring business and residential development.
An interstate that runs uninterrupted from Indianapolis to Evansville opens new opportunities, particularly in Morgan and Johnson counties, where large tracts of land along the route remain undeveloped.
Business leaders say the large amount of land that can be developed north of Evansville along the interstate gives the city unlimited possibilities for growth and change.
Susan Orr and Some 200 people joined Gov. Eric Holcomb and his predecessors, Mike Pence and Mitch Daniels, to celebrate the opening of the I-465 interchange at I-69, marking the essential completion of a 16-year construction project linking Evansville and Indianapolis.
On Tuesday, the last part of the 150-mile project—an interchange linking I-69 and I-465—is scheduled to open following a celebratory on-site event to mark the occasion.
The agency will kick its pilot off Aug. 14 in Hancock County’s Interstate 70 construction zone and plans to add other sites to the program “over time,” it said.
The project is expected to include existing and new-to-market restaurant concepts occupying lots ranging from 1 to 2 acres.
Gov. Eric Holcomb’s $200 million Link 101 road endeavor isn’t moving forward, at least in its original form, following a gloomy cost-benefit analysis and sustained public pushback.
The discussion comes amid a debate over plans by IndyGo—the city’s public transportation agency—to create bus-only lanes on Washington Street (previously U.S. 40) as part of its planned Blue Line rapid-transit service.
A House roads committee on Tuesday did move long-sought legislation allowing jurors to know when someone in a car crash wasn’t wearing a seat belt.
