Thank you Mitch -- may I have another?

The Tribune's Daniel Suddeath makes a nice effort at extracting information from INDOT, which apparently learned its public relations skills from Novosti.

No date set for Grant Line Road project in New Albany

The city is responsible for acquiring properties for the detour route around the construction. The detour will likely be from University Woods Drive to Plaza Drive to Unruh Court to McDonald Lane, if property can be purchased for an access road connecting Plaza and Unruh.

All of us doing business along the Grant Line eagerly await something (anything) from the state that might prove useful for us in planning how we're going to operate during the two years it takes to surmount a railroad that should be nationalized in the first place.

I'm waiting for someone from the city to tell me how my customers are going to get from the acreage where most of them park, which is across Plaza Drive (built to carry a fraction of the traffic it will have to bear as detour), to my building without being flattened.

It's a mess now, and the road's not yet being used as a detour to put drivers right back where they were before: Waiting at the same railroad track that crosses McDonald Lane.

Vent over.