Infrastructure News Summary
For June 10, 2008

BREAKING: BRIDGE ON INDIANA 57 IN GREENE COUNTY COLLAPSES
The Tribune-Star
6/9/08

A bridge crossing Simpson Ditch in Greene County has collapsed, according to a release today from the Greene County Sheriff's Department. The bridge is on Indiana 57, north of the Prairie Chapel Church (in between County Road 200 South and 300 South. The bridge collapsed at about 1:15 a.m. today, the release states. Indiana 57 has been shut down by the Indiana Department of Transportation for an unknown amount of time.
http://www.tribstar.com/news/local_story_161075421.html
Also, http://www.wthitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8453384

BREAKING: I-70 UPDATE
The Brazil Times
Ivy Jackson
6/9/08

Officials at the Clay County Sheriff's Department are asking local residents to find alternate routes for travel until Interstate-70 is reopened for traffic sometime later tonight. Although asphalt repairs near the 30-mile marker of I-70 are near completion, officials said the road will need to "cure" for a longer period of time with the hope it will be able to handle the weight of traffic when the road is reopened. I-70 has been closed since a large portion of the highway collapsed because of heavy rains and flooding Saturday morning, with traffic rerouted to United States 40 and into Brazil. Road crews worked overnight to make repairs, but, when it was reopened Sunday afternoon, the portion of the road collapsed again under the weight of traffic. http://www.thebraziltimes.com/story/1435440.html

BRIDGE PACT IN TROUBLED WATER
CITY SKEPTICAL OF SHARING FUND WITH COUNTY
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Benjamin Lanka
6/9/08

Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry has "grave concerns" about a proposal that would require the city to share revenues with Allen County to finance bridge maintenance. A draft agreement on bridge maintenance financing circulated last week among local elected officials. The agreement would create a supplemental tax fund for span repairs financed by an increase in the county's wheel tax and surtax. It would require Fort Wayne and other communities to give up their additional tax revenues so the county commissioners could spend that money on bridge maintenance. http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/LOCAL/806090329/1002/LOCAL

WL STREET RESURFACING COMING
Journal & Courier
6/10/08

Constructions crews could begin resurfacing some streets in West Lafayette as soon as Wednesday. West Lafayette board of works members approved a contract with Milestone Contractors to resurface sections of streets within the city today.
The contract, worth nearly $523,000, is for work on the following streets:
o Chauncey Street from South Street to Lutz Street.
o Columbia Street from Northwestern Avenue to Salisbury Street.
o Grant Street from Northwestern Avenue to Meridian Street.
o Meridian Street from Northwestern Avenue to Grant Street.
o Kalberer Road from Kent Avenue to McClure Street. http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080610/NEWS09/80610017/1154