A Highway Underway
Interstate 69's groundbreaking occurred on July 16 at The Centre in Evansville. As of July 15, a section of Indiana State Road 68 has been closed to through traffic, but reopened on June 16, 2009. This will be the first of a series of Gibson County Highways closed in the next five years as the highway moves toward Pike County on its way to Indianapolis. Other Gibson County highways to be closed in the future include Indiana State Road 57, Indiana State Road 168, and Indiana State Road 64. Environmentalists have sworn to do everything possible to stop its construction. Especially active is a group called Roadblock Earth First which has been responsible for a number of incidents in Oakland City and at a Haubstadt asphalt yard given the contract for the first segment.
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