Motorists are going to have new roads to travel to connect with interchanges along Section 5 of Interstate 69 once the project is completed through Monroe County.
During the Monroe County commissioners’ meeting on Friday, the county entered an agreement with the Indiana Department of Transportation to take over maintenance of about four miles of existing roadway as well as agreeing to return control of soon-to-be constructed roads as part of the I-69 project.
Bill Williams, county highway engineer and public works director, said a little more than four miles of existing county roads will be under the jurisdiction of INDOT until the project’s completion. However, at the end of construction, the county will be receiving more than 13 miles back. Williams said this increase is due to the construction of a number of access roads to aid motorists in reaching the interstate.
“There’s almost nine miles of new road,” Williams said.
Sandra Flum, project manager with INDOT Section 5, said the project eliminates some existing roads that cross the interstate. Once construction is completed, Flum said, access roads will give motorists to get to the remaining areas where crossing theinterstate is possible.
The longest stretch of new roadway will be built north of the roadway on both sides of a major interchange planned for Sample Road.
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