I-465/69 Changes Proposed
As an individual who frequently travels I-465 on the east site, I can tell you that this relief can not come soon enough:
A redesign of the interchange at I-465 and I-69 and new lanes for both routes are key to an emerging plan to curb traffic congestion in the northeast corridor.
Details of the proposal will be addressed by Indiana Department of Transportation representatives Oct. 24 at a public meeting in Heritage Christian Elementary School, 6401 E. 75th St.
The program begins at 6:30 p.m. Project work could start in 2012.
“The solution that we’re looking at right now is one that best addresses the traffic situation without essentially taking large swaths of land,” said INDOT spokesman Will Wingfield.
According to officials’ current vision, though, the problem has less to do with traffic volume than traffic design. An overhaul of the way the interstates merge and distribute vehicles is expected to move drivers more efficiently.
2012 is a long ways off, relief is needed much sooner. I certainly hope that we are not just fixing today’s problems, but we are planning for the future with these changes to I-465. That interstate is only going to become more congested in the years to come and longer term solutions need to be looked at.
Source: IndyStar
October 17th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Why do they always call Heritage an elementary school? It has K-12. As a Heritage grad, that has always annoyed me.
As for the traffic, that’s one of the reasons I didn’t want to live in Fishers. Here’s hoping they’re planning on what traffic is like in 2012 and not reconstructing a road for 2012, based on a 2007 population.