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Indiana Will Soon See Benefits, Costs of Gas-Tax Increase

INDIANAPOLIS — It won't be long before Indiana residents feel the benefits and costs of a $1.2 billion infrastructure plan Gov. Eric Holcomb signed April 27, along with the state's two-year budget. "I can assure you come July, you and all of you, are going to smell asphalt morning, noon and night," Holcomb said.

April 28, 2017
TCA

Indiana Senate Committee Votes to Phase in Gas Tax Increase

An Indiana Senate committee March 28 pushed through plans to raise the gas tax by 10 cents and open Indiana interstates to tolling.

March 29, 2017
GovernmentBusiness

Indiana DOT Awards Contracts for I-70 Upgrades

Repair work to highway lanes and bridges along the Interstate 70 freight corridor east of Indianapolis is expected to last through the end of the year, the state Department of Transportation announced this month.

March 20, 2017
GovernmentBusiness

Indiana Nonprofit Works to Improve State’s Logistic Network

Conexus Indiana staff members don't consider themselves lobbyists, but rather staff for the General Assembly "thinking through policy issues.

January 18, 2017
GovernmentBusiness

Indiana Senate GOP Won't Rule Out Gas Tax Hike to Fund Highways

Indiana Senate Republicans are not ruling out raising the state's gasoline tax or adding tolls to new roads to pay for road and bridge improvements in the state.

January 11, 2017
GovernmentBusiness

Joe McGuinness, Former Franklin Mayor, Chosen to Lead Indiana DOT

Joe McGuinness has been tapped to take over as commissioner of Indiana’s Department of Transportation, leaving his post as mayor of Franklin, Indiana.

January 9, 2017
GovernmentBusiness

Rural Indiana Counties Split $80 Million in Federal Transportation Grants

Indiana officials in Pike, Greene and Knox Counties will be cashing in on millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements funded through federal transportation funds.

October 4, 2016
GovernmentBusiness

Indiana’s DOT Reviewing Grant Applications for Local Roads, Bridges

Indiana’s Department of Transportation announced Aug. 2 that it has received 1,592 applications for 50/50 matching grants from 325 communities seeking funds for local road and bridge improvement projects.

August 2, 2016
GovernmentBusiness

Did Indiana Spend $71 Million on Defective Asphalt?

Indiana roads are crumbling prematurely, and lawmakers want to know if the state bought $71 million in defective asphalt.

September 23, 2015
BusinessGovernment

Vital I-65 Indiana Trucking Corridor Closed Till Mid-September

The Indiana Department of Transportation estimates it will be mid-September before a 50-mile northbound section of I-65 between Lebanon and Lafayette, Indiana, is reopened.

August 18, 2015