Indiana Department of Transportation

The Michiana Area Council of Governments took action Wednesday on Interurban Trolley cuts and U.S. 30 intersection changes.

The Indiana Department of Transportation is looking to install “median U-turns” at State Road 19 and Kosciusko County Road 800 West. That would likely mean vehicles crossing U.S. 30 would first have to turn right, make a U-turn and go back to the intersection.

State Road 13 in Middlebury could see less on-street parking but more room for buggies in the coming years.

Indiana Department of Transportation officials say they're confident they can slow down State Road 23 traffic as it approaches the roundabout, with reduced speed limits and channelization measures like curbing.

Granger residents have a chance to weigh in on a proposed roundabout. It would be located at State Road 23’s east intersection with Adams Road.

Planners’ preferred alternative would widen U.S. 33 to four lanes between Monroe Street and Plymouth Avenue and five lanes from Plymouth Avenue to Kercher Road, including a center turn lane. Other planned improvements include an eight-food-wide multiuse path between Monroe and Kercher, plus new curbs and sewers.

Drivers can learn about proposed changes to U.S. 33 in Goshen. The Indiana Department of Transportation will hold a public information meeting on Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30 p.m. at Goshen High School.

“In a lot of these locations, we’re removing traffic signals in very rural, kind of isolated locations where we have a tendency to kind of create a [speed] yo-yo effect for vehicles and especially trucks,” INDOT Deputy Commissioner Jason Kaiser told the Michiana Area Council of Governments’ Policy Board on Wednesday.

The Indiana Department of Transportation is postponing more than 300 projects due to funding issues.

When it comes to keeping highways clear from snow and ice, the Indiana Department of Transportation says it starts preparing long before the first flakes fall. INDOT Northeast District Public Relations Director Hunter Petroviak says training and planning start early in the fall, and crews constantly monitor weather forecasts once winter arrives.