Infrastructure News Summary
For April 25, 2008

TRAFFIC DETOUR IN HOBART STARTS MONDAY AT 61ST AND COLORADO
Post-Tribune
4/24/08

HOBART -- Traffic will be detoured around the intersection of 61st Avenue and Colorado Street for the next five months, starting Monday. The intersection is being closed to allow crews from Rieth-Riley Construction Co. to raise 61st Avenue eight feet over a creek that flows into Lake George. The intersection closure is part of a $7 million project to widen 61st from two to four lanes between Liverpool Road to about 500 feet west of Colorado Street. The construction project is to be completed by the end of the year.
http://www.post-trib.com/news/912489,hbrief.article

ROAD CLOSING RESET FOR TUESDAY
The Indianapolis Star
4/25/08

Motorists traveling Stanley Road on Plainfield's southside are getting a reprieve from today's expected road closing. A section of Stanley around the bridge over Clarks Creek is rescheduled to be closed Tuesday. Don McGillem, Plainfield transportation director, said contractors working on the road and related utility projects asked for the change in the closing schedule. He said the plan still calls for closing the road only one day. Signs along the road and announcements had warned area residents that Stanley would be closed today. However, tests and other preparations for a new sewer line under the road delayed the work a few days. The Stanley Road construction point will be just east of the bridge, where a large sewer main line will be buried under the street. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008804250389

RESIDENTS REACT TO SR 23 PROPOSAL
Fox 28 News
4/24/08

The plans would be improvements to many, but not to people whose homes and businesses are at stake. Residents voiced a lot of concerns at a meeting about the State Road 23 expansion project. Thursday night, consultants presented results of an environmental impact study. The proposal presented showed that 45 homes and a business may be relocated. The existing two lane section would become four-lane. Construction is slated to begin in February of 2010. http://www.fox28.com/News/index.php?ID=36653
Also, http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080424/News01/14211810

KOUTS HOPES INTERSECTION WORK STARTS IN THE FALL
The NWI Times
Phil Wieland
4/24/08

KOUTS | With a spring bidding for work at the intersection of Ind. 49 and Ind. 8 out of the question, town officials now are hoping for a fall start to the project. Town Engineer James Mandon said the project was pushed back because of discussions about changing the size of the storm sewer. He said the Indiana Department of Transportation now intends to fast track the engineering in order to award the bid by late summer or early fall. That would mean relocating power lines, water mains and manholes could be done this year and the actual road widening and reconstruction could be done next spring. The one major unknown in the project is the effect on the town's water lines. INDOT is supposed to provide Mandon with the latest plans for the project this week so he can match up the lane dimensions with the locations of the utility line to figure out what has to be moved. Although the state is paying for the intersection improvements, the as yet unanswered question is: who will pay for water line replacement? http://www.nwitimes.com/articles/2008/04/24//news/porter_county/doc13e4aa827932b19b8625743400817110.txt