Concrete is spread and smoothed over two lanes of the I-69 roadbed Thursday in Daviess County. David Snodgress | Herald-Times
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State’s I-69 timeline
DEC. 31, 2012
Sections 1, 2 and 3 of I-69 from Evansville to the U.S. 231 interchange in Greene County open to traffic.
Last three of six contracts awarded for Section 4 of the interstate from U.S. 231 to Ind. 37 at Fullerton Pike just south of Bloomington in Monroe County.
Completion and submission to federal transportation department of draft environmental impact statement for Section 5 of the interstate, which will follow Ind. 37 from south of Bloomington to just south of Martinsville in Morgan County.
FIRST/SECOND QUARTER, 2013
Public hearings and solicitation of comment on the draft impact statement based on comments solicited from the public.
SECOND QUARTER, 2013
Submit final environmental impact statement to federal officials by the end of the second quarter of 2013.
END OF THIRD QUARTER, 2013
Receipt of the necessary Record of Decision from federal officials. (Fundingfor the project must be identified before federal officials OK the plan.)
Preparation of contracts and awarding of work for Section 5 construction.
DEC. 31, 2013
Beginning of construction of Section 5, with earliest work concentrating on traffic relief in parts of the road most affected by completion of the I-69/Ind. 37 connection.
DEC. 31, 2014
Section 4 of I-69 open to traffic, completing Evansville to Bloomington segment.
Parallel concrete strips stretched to the horizon in front and behind, recently laid by a “paving train,” the huge pieces of linked equipment that continuously pour, settle and smooth a two-lane strip of roadway at a time.
Workers in hard hats and yellow safety vests, construction equipment, trucks, and sundry other evidence of a work in progress dotted the landscape.
This was I-69 in Daviess County, where much of the task of building the highway many thought they’d never see is close to wrapping up — at least for the stretch from Evansville northeast to Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center.
Indiana Department of Transportation project manager Brian Malone, an engineer whose assignments have included several of the bridges and overpasses along the route, said Thursday about 13 days of paving remained before both north- and southbound lanes are finished from Evansville to the I-69/U.S. 231 interchange in southern Greene County, just west of Crane. The big machines can lay between 2,000 and 3,000 feet of concrete in a 10-hour day, with the length varying by the distance between the site and the concrete mix plant that fills the stream of dump trucks supplying the train.
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