road projects

Locally, Elkhart, St. Joseph and LaPorte counties were each awarded the maximum of $1 million. The cities of Goshen and Mishawaka each got about $900,000 in this extra round.

“We have a lot of people relying on this corridor, a lot of traffic,” said Parsons Public Involvement Director Mindy Peterson during last week's public information meeting.

The Indiana Department of Transportation is launching a planning and environment linkages study for a 13-mile section of State Road 2 between U.S. 20 and U.S. 31.

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

“The plan is for [patching] Monday with a fallback day of Tuesday, if possible, and we hope to open the bridge after that sometime, which is by the middle of next week,” St. Joseph County Engineer Sky Medors said during a press conference Thursday.

Drivers across northern Indiana are facing a growing list of traffic delays as major road construction projects get underway for the summer.

Indiana is releasing more infrastructure funds this week – $107 million aimed towards local road projects. In this round of Community Crossings grants, 224 locales will share the funding.

State officials want Hoosiers to be extra cautious on the roadways as road construction season gets underway.

Indiana will spend about half a billion dollars over the next few years on what Gov. Eric Holcomb calls “transformational” road projects in southern…