FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 29, 2015
State to Invest $50 Million to Improve I-465/I-69 Interchange on Indy’s
Northeast Side INDOT Requesting Proposals to Reconfigure Heavily Traveled
Interchange to Ease Congestion
INDIANAPOLIS
– Governor Mike Pence announced today that the State will invest an estimated $50
million to reconfigure the busy I-465/I-69 interchange on the northeast side of
Indianapolis. The project will ease congestion, improve safety, and reduce
travel time in the heavily traveled corridor used by more than 165,000
drivers each day.
“Significant
growth in Noblesville, Fishers and the northeast side of Indianapolis has
created the need to update our highway infrastructure in the area,” Governor
Mike Pence said. “Building this interchange will increase capacity and improve
traffic flow. This project, along with recent and planned projects to widen
I-69, a scheduled interchange at 106th Street, and the modernization of State
Road 37 in Fishers, will dramatically improve the ability of people and
commerce to move efficiently in Central Indiana.”
The project
will include:
- Building a high-speed, two-lane ramp for traffic
exiting I-465 eastbound onto I-69 northbound. The new ramp would bridge over
Binford Boulevard and I-465, while the existing low-speed loop ramp would remain
for I-465 eastbound traffic exiting I-69 onto 82nd Street in
Castleton.
- Widening I-465 to four travel lanes in each
direction between the White River bridge and I-69. In addition, two ramp lanes in
each direction would run continuously between the I-69, Allisonville Road and
Keystone Avenue interchanges for traffic entering and exiting the interstate.
The Indiana Department of Transportation this week will publish a
formal request for proposals seeking engineering companies interested in
designing the project. INDOT expects to begin preliminary design of the project
in 2016 with construction anticipated to begin in 2020.
The request
for proposals asks consultants to design additional improvements should more
funding become available in the future. For more information about INDOT’s work
to modernize Indiana’s transportation infrastructure, visit www.in.gov/indot.
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