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There are only three states in the nation with more rural interstate per square mile than Indiana.
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The counties through which I-64 passes in southern Indiana consistently lead the state in unemployment rates and depressed income.
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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC), owned by the General Electric corporation, called new-terrain I-69 through Indiana a "Fleecing of America"
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For the past fifty years Bloomington has been the fastest-growing urban area in Indiana
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fourth-fastest growing in Indiana (1990-2000). The Bloomington MSA is
growing faster than New Albany, Fort Wayne, Evansville, South Bend, Gary,
Terre Haute, and Muncie, all cities served by interstate highways.
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| Monroe County already has more jobs than people. Over 15,000
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Indianapolis already has more interstate connections than any other city in the United States.
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| Indiana taxpayers, not the federal government, will pay the $2 billion construction cost of I-69. Senator Richard Lugar: The bulk of the federal highway funds required to construct the Southwest Indiana Highway will likely come from Indiana's annual allocation of transportation funds distributed by the U.S. Department of Transportation according to the formula specified in the TEA 21 law. This money comes from Indiana's gas tax and will come at the expense of Indiana's existing roads. No wonder local highway and street departments are wondering if a new I-69 extension will leave them hanging in future INDOT budgets. -- Lafayette Journal and Courier |
| Based on the results of the benefit to cost evaluation, construction is not recommended -- Southwest Indiana Highway Feasibility (Donohoe) Study, comissioned by Evan Bayh, 1990 |
| Based on [an] analysis of direct highway benefits and the likely indirect benefits of economic development, the proposed highway is at best marginal from a cost effectiveness standpoint. -- Federal Highway Administration report to Congress, 1990 |
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There are only five counties in southwestern Indiana through which at least one four-lane divided highway doesn't already pass
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The US-41/I-70 option costs half as much as the preferred "new terrain" option and has the lowest farm, forest, and wetland impacts of any other option. Yet it is listed as "non-preferred" because it adds thirteen minutes to an Evansville to Indianapolis drive.
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Truck freight costs you time and money while polluting your air. It makes no sense to subsidize more of it. Transportation Consultant Wendell Cox calculated that if Indianapolis shifted just a quarter of its freight from truck to rail that it would save each commuter a week's worth of time in traffic congestion. Every year!
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| There is no correlation between job retention or expansion and a state's level
of interstate infrastructure. Click here to see a graph
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| Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar's family farm is one of hundreds that could be destroyed by
I-69 (for what?). The Indianapolis Star quotes
the Senator saying I believe that this would be a tragic public policy and environmental error, and this is why I pose the issue in
such stark and unmistakable terms to help provide very public and timely debate.
Read Senator Lugar's letter to Brian Nicol HERE.
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