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Gohmann also won the construction contract for the first two miles (3.2 km) from I-64 to SR 68 with a $25-million (equivalent to $34.7 million in 2023 [20]) bid. Construction began with a groundbreaking ceremony in Evansville on July 16, 2008. INDOT built this first section of the extension of I-69 using the design–build method. [47] [48]
The Panic of 1837 devastated Indiana's program of internal improvements, but did not stop construction entirely. [4] The canal reached Lafayette by 1843, Terre Haute by 1848 and Evansville by 1853. [5] During the summer of 1991, the Gronauer Lock was uncovered at New Haven, Indiana, during the construction of I-469. This is the only intact ...
Interstate 69 (I-69) is an Interstate Highway in the United States currently consisting of eight unconnected segments. The longest segment runs from Evansville, Indiana, northeast to the Canadian border in Port Huron, Michigan, and includes the original continuous segment from Indianapolis, Indiana, to Port Huron of 355.8 miles (572.6 km).
On June 11, 2021, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced his state has committed an additional $200 million to complete design and construction of the Indiana approach to the I-69 Ohio River Bridge, including a new high-speed interchange with the existing I-69 east of Evansville, and 1.5 miles of new freeway to the Kentucky state line (which ...
A planning map shows a freeway along this routing intersecting the Indiana Toll Road just west of the State Road 19 interchange. [14] The Michigan State Highway Department officially requested switching the I-67 designation to a route from Benton Harbor to Grand Rapids in 1958, and in the process proposed the northerly extension of the original ...
The second was the construction of an exit ramp (now exit 4) on I-465 for the eventual construction of a Bluff Road bypass through southern Marion and northern Johnson Counties. [ 14 ] In 1967, there were two SR 37s on the south side of Indianapolis: one along Bluff Road and one along the Bluff Road bypass.
The initial southern Indiana portion, running 45.71 miles (73.56 km) between then-US 31E (now US 31) in Clarksville and US 50 east of Seymour, saw its first traffic in November 1961. The final of the 17 segments of I-65 outside of I-465, 23.09 miles (37.16 km) from State Road 252 (SR 252) near Edinburgh to Southport Road on Indianapolis's far ...
By December 2008, crews had completed construction on two miles (3.2 km) of the freeway from the Ohio state line to just east of the SR 101 interchange. On October 29, 2009, Governor Daniels and Ohio Governor Ted Strickland held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Indiana–Ohio state line opening the new US 24 highway from SR 101 near Woodburn to ...