....   On November 7th in a 19 page comment to the DEIS the 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.
For our map page explaining the hybrid click here.
For the DEIS map of the alternatives click here.
An increase in Business "Relocations" of the "hybrid" alternative.

The hybrid or mutant alternative creates some major problems for the study:

The only environmental data that Alternative #1,  IN41 & I70  scored poorly on was the number of business closed.

Data from DEIS tables below predict studied increases in business closings for the "hybrid" alternative.

From DEIS tables "Business Relocation Estimates"
5.3-4 (Alt. Two) & 5.3-6 (Alt. Three)

Alt.2
Sections		 Business
Relocations		 . Alt.3
Sections		 Business
Relocations		 Hybrid/
Mutant 
Increases
Rt #2
I64 to SR64 Princeton		 10 to 44 . Rt #3 
I64 to US-50		 3 to 4 .
SR 64 Princeton to SR67 Vincennes 13 . US 50 to US 231 near Crane 0 .
Total 23 to 57 . . 3 to 4 20 to 53
* 

COUNT US!  Thanks The Association of Monroe County Taxpayers  for the use of this photo capture of INDOT's  "total  business relocations" for each alternative.  We have added the red bars to chart the increases in businesses relocated with the Mutant/ Hybrid route.

Alternatives 3A and 5s would be similarly impacted, but are not considered since they are "not preferred".
Alternative 4 is not considered, Alternative 2 is the "hybrid of 4", since the north 2/3rds of these routes are the same.

The "hybrid" route #2/ #3 to Bloomington,  begins as the route previously used by Alternative 2 heading north from I-64 to above Vincennes along US 41.  At IN-67 the route parallels IN 67  then cuts due east on yet to be studied new-terrain along the Daviess / Greene county line.*

* The relocations are assumed as zero in the new unstudied (hybrid) section of the route.   SEIS study of relocations may be greater, but not less.

Of great concern to COUNT US!, INDOT and the DEIS has totally biased the study to not care about People, Homes and Neighborhoods, but if such things matter to you, look at our Homes Destruction / "Relocation" Table and Graph.

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