Local News - Traffic & Road Closures
(Photo Credit: Beyond Monumental, beyondmonumental.org) Last weekend, that gang at the Home and Garden Show (Saturdays, 9am – 1pm) was talking about accidently moving the program out of the illustrious downtown studios on the wrong weekend. The goal, as I understand it, was to broadcast somewhere other than smack dab in the epicenter of the Monumental […]
INDIANAPOLIS — If your commute includes East 34th Street, you might need to find a new way to get to work for a few days this week. 34th Street is closed between Lesley and Arlington Avenues until Wednesday while CSX Transportation repairs a railroad crossing that was damaged when a water main broke over the […]
(Photo Credit: @daviddrake2) In a second, we’ll look at a couple of projects that continue to torment west side and Speedway drivers, but first let’s get this out of the way: Weekend road work on the interstates will last into November. Ugh. According to the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), a couple spots of rough weather has […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Construction on the final leg of I-69 between Martinsville and Indianapolis will start in just a few months. Hoosiers who live in the line of fire of the construction zone had the chance to ask questions and voice concerns at a public meeting about the project at Perry Meridian High School […]
BEECH GROVE, Ind. (WISH) — Beech Grove city leaders are asking for help from the state to make changes to a dangerous intersection. Beech Grove Mayor Dennis Buckley announced Tuesday that city leaders are applying for funding from INDOT to construct a roundabout at Victory Drive and Emerson Avenue near Interstate 465. Buckley said traffic […]
(Photo Credit: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand – Getty Images) My eyes are bleeding, and not in a Chitulu kind of way. I’ve wrapped my head in gauze so I’m unable to find the comprehensive list of ramp closures and lane restrictions for this weekend. This is good, because honestly, I didn’t know there was this much interstate in Indianapolis, […]
INDIANAPOLIS — A project to replace the Ditch Road bridge over I-465 is behind schedule and won’t be finished until next year, according to the Indiana Department of Transportation. The Ditch Road overpass closed in March and work was supposed to be done Sept. 30. INDOT says what was supposed to be a six-month […]
We gave the road roulette wheel a hefty spin for this weekend, and low and behold it landed on “south side” for like the thousandth time this construction season. Johnson County to downtown drivers need to polish off their U.S. 31 boots and dust off their special rerouting underwear, because construction season is still on. […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – You’ve heard those ads telling you to slow down in work zones. Legislators are discussing adding automatic cameras to catch you. There are hefty fines for speeding in a work zone — 300 dollars for a first time, up to a thousand for repeat offenders, and up to five-thousand for reckless driving. But […]
STATEWIDE — It’s been one of the busiest years ever for the construction workers with the Indiana Department of Transportation. Throughout the state, INDOT had 1,100 projects scheduled for the 2019 construction season. “I-70 and 465, traffic in the mornings with construction is just a nightmare. There are a lot of times I had to […]