EDITORIAL: Highway for the heartland

President Obama’s administration rightly cited the Fort-to-Port highway as an important federal infrastructure project, but Hoosiers shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that it was local community leaders and elected officials across Indiana and in northwest Ohio whose vision and determination made it possible.

Fort-to-Port is an extension of an earlier project that also bubbled up from a grass-roots effort – the Hoosier Heartland Corridor. Together, a four-lane highway from Toledo (a port city) all the way to Lafayette is within two years of completion. The heartland corridor effort was broadened from a Lafayette to Fort Wayne route to include the Fort-to-Port project, creating the Hoosier Heartland Highway.