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State Drops Planned I-64 Interchange In Southern Indiana

By Rachel Agler

State Drops Planned I-64 Interchange In Southern Indiana

June 18, 2010 Updated Nov 30, 2009 at 9:55 AM EST CORYDON, Ind. (AP) - All state funding has been pulled for a new Interstate 64 interchange in southern Indiana as state and local officials disagree over where it should be located. Harrison County officials want the interchange at Indiana 337 near Corydon, where exit and entrance ramps could be added to a current overpass. County economic development director Darrell Voelker says that site is near a new hospital building, an expanding commercial area and industrial corridors. The estimated $22 million project was included in the state's 2006 highway plan, with construction to start in 2011. But new state plans show it unfunded or not included at all. State highway department spokesman Will Wingfield says that the Indiana 337 site is too close to an existing interchange to meet federal guidelines for rural interstates. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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