....   On November 7th in a 19 page comment to the DEIS the EPA requested further consideration of US-41 and I-70 and announced unwillingness to issue permit for routes 3, 4, & 5 to pass through the Patoka Wildlife Preserve a forested wetland .
  Calling this "routine", INDOT scrambled;  November 13th, 2002, six days after the end of the public comment period, INDOT reacted with the "hybrid" route.  It is their effort to save Bloomington alternatives #3B & #3C.
 We have noted a few of the problems with this hasty INDOT proposed "hybrid" or "mutant" route.
All of the 'preferred' Alternatives and Alternative #1.
 

Alt 1 Blue
. 
Alt 2 Green

Alt 3 Orange
2 options 3b & 3c

Alt 4 Purple
2options 4B & 4C

Hybrid Red
 
 
 
 

See the color key for alternatives below.

 

 *
Alt 2C 

.
.North  to Mann Road at I-465
Alt 4 B & C
*
.
4B-- North to I-70 to I 465
         4C-- North to Mann Road at 465
Either 4B or 4C, not both
Alt 3b & 3c/ Mann Rd
*
Either 3b or 3c, not both.
Alternatives differ only at 
Bloomington.
*Black dot shows area of the EPA denied use, The Patoka Nat. Wildlife Preserve.
Alt #1 

(IN41 North  to I-70 East)
Hybrid

Either b or c, not both		 Neither INDOT or the EPA claim the hybrid as their own, 
but INDOT is said to be considering it.**

South to North:

  • Beginning as Alt.#2 
  • 1/3rd way up using non proposed and unstudied new terrain to
  • Alt.#3 on the north 1/2 to I-465.

The Hybrid shown 
in key colors.

 
** If you have read that this is an EPA proposed route, that is only spin.  Read the real EPA letters, found on our comments page.
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