By the numbers
Sections 1 through 4 of Interstate 69 by the numbers
94: Miles of I-69 between Evansville and Bloomington
8: Number of times Lucas Oil Stadium could be filled with earth moved to construct I-69
1,500,000: Cubic yards of concrete and asphalt that will be used for construction
Source: Indiana Department of Transportation
A portion of the Interstate 69 interchange in Monroe County is expected to be open to traffic by the end of the year.
“If Mother Nature is willing, traffic will be moved over,” said Chriss Jobe, construction area engineer for Section 4 of I-69.
Jobe and other Indiana Department of Transportation officials answered questions about the project Monday afternoon on top of a bridge that will carry Ind. 37 traffic over what will become I-69. The Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce organized site visits for people attending today’s I-69 Regional Summit.
Attendees were taken from the Bloomington/Monroe County Convention Center south on Ind. 37 to what will become the I-69 interchange, between That Road and Victor Pike.
Currently in that area, southbound traffic has been diverted into one of the northbound lanes of Ind. 37 to accommodate construction crews. Jobe said the hope is to have enough paving done to move traffic over to the new interchange and close Ind. 37’s northbound lane by early December.
The rest of Section 4 — the 27-mile stretch from Naval Support Activity Crane to Bloomington — won’t be finished until the end of 2015. That’s about a year after the original expected completion date.
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