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INDOT defends the condition of Indiana’s roads

By Stephanie Wiechmann | Published on in Uncategorized

The Indiana Department of Transportation has spent the day defending its record on road and bridge improvements on Twitter. In several tweets throughout the day, the state agency says it will spend more than $3 billion on road and bridge paving projects in the next five years and says that’s a 58 percent increase from the last five years. It also defends its pavement maintenance record and the overall condition of Indiana’s state-owned roads. An INDOT analysis says that the amount of bridges and paved roads classified as “fair or better” both increased.

The move comes after INDOT has been criticized for an emergency bridge closure earlier this year that detoured traffic from Interstate 65 and while it investigates nearly 200 paving projects that may have used sub-standard asphalt and are beginning to crumble years before expectations.