At The Urbanophile: "Indiana’s Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 3 – INDOT’s Mini-Big Dig."

Links to the first two parts of the series are included, so click through to The Urbanophile, and join Renn in asking: Does INDOT really know what it’s getting into with this tunnel and this project segment?

Indiana’s Bridge Deal Boondoggle, Part 3 – INDOT’s Mini-Big Dig, by Aaron M. Renn (The Urbanophile)


In previous installments in this series I highlighted how Indiana managed to increase its share of the Louisville bridges project by $200 million even as it bragged that the total price tag had gone down by $1.5 billion, how this led directly to Indiana having to allocate $432 million in regular highway funds to the project, and how tolling puts Indiana at significant risk of paying an even greater share of the project.

Today I’ll highlight how Indiana is stepping into a potential quagmire by agreeing to take responsibility for building a high-risk mini-Big Dig tunnel under a portion of Louisville’s most affluent community.