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636 Dead Man's Curve projects would go
unfunded
(An example of how I-69 can effect the entire state
negatively.)
Terre Haute Tribune-Star
staff report
http://capwiz.com/c-span/webreturn/?url=http://www.tribstar.com
Indiana 63 to close for work on
'Dead
Man's
Curve'
April 6, 2004
Indiana
63 will close on or about July 31 and remain closed through Nov. 1 to
complete work on a stretch of the highway known as Dead Man's Curve,
about four miles south of Interstate 70, the Indiana Department of
Transportation announced Monday.
Wabash
Valley Asphalt Co. is the contractor on the more than $2.8 million
project. The detour for northbound motorists will be Indiana 246 east
to U.S. 40 and north to Indiana 63, where it connects to Third Street
at Hulman Street, INDOT reports.
COUNT US! presents this analysis for your
consideration:
For the cost of I-69, 3-C,
the state of Indiana could immediately without major environmental
studies
fix 636 similar "Dead Man's
Curves" across Indiana.
$1.78 Bil ÷ 2.8 Mil = 636
or
stated in long numbers:
$1,780,000,000 ÷ 2,800,000 = 636
projects.
Just the savings of building I-69 on US-41 & I-70, would build fund
357 Dead Man's Curve
projects.
$1B/ 2.8M.
The total cost of I-69 from Kentucky to existing I-69 is the basis for
the broad based/ state wide benefits sited by INDOT as I-69
benefits.
The INDOT accepted costs for I-69 from Kentucky to existing I-69 is
over $3 Billion dollars.
So "I-69 for Indiana" money directed at existing roads could fund 1,071 similar "Dead Man's
Curve" state wide road improvement projects.
We are certain the "40,000 serious accidents
prevented" by I-69 built, fail to take into
consideration projects that will not done for lack of the funding used
to build
I-69.
How much economic development to communities might be brought by
local transportation improvement funding?....
http://www.transact.org/
Setting the Record Straight:
Transit, Fixing
Roads
and
Bridges Offer
Greatest Jobs Gains
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