Construction on I-69 is seen Tuesday from North Showers Road north of Bloomington.
The Indiana Department of Transportation is still targeting Aug. 31, 2018, as the date of substantial completion for the Interstate 69 Section 5 project, but there is a caveat.
“We don’t control the weather,” said Travis Underhill, deputy commissioner for INDOT.
What INDOT does control is management of the project, and since taking that over from I-69 Development
Partners in early August, the state agency feels work is progressing at a much faster pace than it was under the private development company.
Two of the project’s three main contractors — Force Construction and Crider & Crider — are working day and night.
“If you drive the 21 miles of the project, you don’t have to go too far without seeing people working,” Underhill said Thursday.
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