Evansville, IN – According to the state officials, the funding will support the I-80/I-94 FlexRoad project in northwest Indiana.
State officials also said that the funding will supplement over half of the anticipated $212.5 million cost of the project, which will leverage Traffic System Management and Operations strategies to improve travel time, increase reliability, enhance safety, and reduce carbon emissions on the 12-mile stretch of the I-80/I-94 Borman Expressway in northwest Indiana, extending from the Indiana-Illinois state line to I-65 in Gary. TSMO strategies maximize the efficiency of existing transportation systems.
FlexRoad is currently in its environmental and preliminary design phase and is expected to let to contractors in fall 2025 with construction activities anticipated to begin in 2026.
Four alternatives were identified during an earlier Planning and Environmental Linkage study and are being further analyzed by the project team.
Each alternative includes a combination of possible improvement strategies with increasing amounts of complementary benefits.
