....     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 Forested Wetland Preserve. 
     Calling this "routine", INDOT scrambled. 
      November 13th, 2002, six days after the end of the public comment period, INDOT reacted with the "mutant"/"hybrid" route.  It is their effort to save alternative #3 B & #3C  past Bloomington.

We have noted a few problems with this hasty INDOT proposed "hybrid" or "mutant" route.

An increase in home destruction aka "relocations" of the "hybrid" alternative.

COUNT US! represents PEOPLE, CITIZENS, FAMILIES, TAXPAYERS, OUR HOMES AND NEIGHBORHOODS ...get the point.
INDOT, O'Bannon, Kernan, Nicol, Bernardin- Lochmueller & Associates, and the DEIS care little about homes, but we think this is most important.  Alternative 3 was already among the most destructive to homes.  Now it is the clear winner.   The new "hybrid / mutant" alternative #3 is severely impacted by this category of study.

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

The "hybrid" route #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.*

For a map, click here.
Data from DEIS tables below predict studied increases in homes destroyed for the "hybrid" alternative.

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


Alt.2
Sections		 Home
Relocations		 .. Alt.3
Sections		 Home
Relocations		 Hybrid/
Mutant 
Increases
Rt #2
I64 to SR64 Princeton		 32 to 52 .. Rt #3 
I64 to US-50		 63 to 75 .
SR 64 Princeton to SR67 Vincennes  64 to 101 .. US 50 to US 231 near Crane** 20 to 29 .
Total  96 to 153 .. . 83 to 104 13 to 49
*& **

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 that will be purchased/ relocated with the Mutant/ Hybrid route.

Alternative 3A would be similarly impacted, but is not considered since it has been called "not preferred".

* 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.

** Some of these houses between Newbury and Crane will  be included in the new hybrid. SEIS study of relocations will be greater, 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 join COUNT US!

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