Funding alloted for I-69
- Posted by i69news on April 23rd, 2007 filed in INDOT
New Terrain I-69 Funding - Give Them an Inch and They’ll Take a Mile
From All-Tolled:
New Legislation specifies that New Terrain I-69 will receive $119
million to begin construction at the Evansville end. That is 10% of INDOT’s two
year budget to BEGIN just one highway. New highway cost models developed by INDOT
have elicited conservative estimates that the cost of the entire route now stands at
$4 billion. So, this ’seed money’ wouldn’t get Indiana very far. Proponents of the
new terrain route are hoping that if they can get it start, the state will be forced
to come up with the remaining money — give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.
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