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INDOT plans $24M investment in county
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Surrounded by Indiana Department of Transportation workers in Terre Haute Thursday, Gov. Eric Holcomb comments on the state’s Next Level Roads plan, which will invest $4.7 billion in Indiana roads over the next five years.
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With an increased fuel tax already hitting Hoosiers’ wallets, the long-term road funding plan it represents should start paying dividends as soon as next year.
That was the message Gov. Eric Holcomb took to the road to spread on Thursday. And while his three-city announcement tour didn’t make an official stop in Putnam County, the community should be able to count itself a major beneficiary of the program it represents.
With stops in Indianapolis, Terre Haute and West Lafayette, Holcomb announced Next Level Roads Plan, INDOT’s road construction inventory for the next five fiscal years reflecting new funding made available by the long-term road funding plan approved by the General Assembly and signed into law by Holcomb in April.
For Putnam County in particular, those plans mean $24,713,948 in funding that will resurface 91 lane miles while also rehabilitating or replacing 12 bridges.
The statewide investment over five years will be $4.7 billion.
Putnam County will see major projects from this work as soon as next year, with a $3.86 million overlay and preventive maintenance project on U.S. 231 from south of Cloverdale to the State Road 240 junction in Greencastle.
Although listed on the Montgomery County project list from INDOT, Putnam County will be the main beneficiary of a $3.228 million overlay project on U.S. 231 in 2020 that will resurface the road from just south of U.S. 36 to State Road 234 in Montgomery County.
Also in 2020, a $6.044 million project will resurface U.S. 40 from U.S. 231 to State Road 75.
State Road 236 will also receive major work in 2021, with $9.301 million in work to be performed between U.S. 231 in Putnam County and State Road 75 in western Hendricks County. Listed for Hendricks County, the bulk of this project will also take place in Putnam County.
Additionally, dozens of bridge and structure projects are planned for the county over the next five years, the most visible of which will be the bridge deck replacements of both eastbound and westbound Interstate 70 over U.S. 231 at Cloverdale, with cost estimates of $2.2 million and $2.5 million, respectively. That major project — and the interstate backups that will come with it — is slated for work in 2019.
According to INDOT’s numbers, the largest investment in Putnam County will come in 2018, with $9,882,879. In 2019, that number will drop to an estimated $225,000.
After rebounding to $5,711,000 in 2020 there is estimated to be no investment in 2021.
In the final year of the plan, Putnam County is projected to receive $8,895,069 in road and bridge work.
“Transportation plays a major part in Indiana’s success story,” Holcomb wrote in a letter to Hoosiers that opens the 231-page plan. “Now, with a sustainable, data-driven plan in place to fund roads and bridges, Hoosiers can rest assured that Indiana will remain the Crossroads of America for generations to come.”