Gov. Eric Holcomb rolled out a regionally-specific portion of the state’s five-year infrastructure plan Thursday during a stop in West Lafayette. The governor and INDOT officials say interstates and bridges will be hit hardest with orange barrels. INDOT Commissioner Joe McGuinness says one of the big priorities is adding lanes to I-65 and I-70 – he says he’d like to see a minimum of three lanes run each direction. McGuinness says overpasses are also targeted in the plan. “As we’re inspecting these bridges, there’s a lot of aging infrastructure out there that we’ve got to take care of and preserve and maintain. The Sagamore Parkway Bridge right here over the Wabash River is a perfect example of that,” McGuinness says. “An old bridge that needed to be rehabbed -- now that’ll be set in place, it’ll be there for 50 or 75 years before it needs any significant repairs.” About 10,000 miles of pavement is set to be resurfaced around the state, along with repairing or replacing 1,300 bridges.
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