New infrastructure changes proposed by Gov. Holcolmb raises toll prices
By: Tiffany Salameh
Posted: Sep 5, 2018 6:15 PM EDT
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Windy and wet this weekend, but unseasonable warmth as well
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Local players react to $3 million investment in Byer Softball...
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Layoffs at Whirlpool could affect workers in Benton Harbor
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Annual District Sisterhood Conference at Ivy Tech empowers students
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Back home in downtown South Bend, YMCA to open new location
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This week’s ABC57 Cub Reporter is Nicholas Zentz
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Amazon Web Services invests $11 billion to build data center...
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Riley High School student center stage at the NFL Draft
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Rain, wind, and milder temperatures forecast this weekend
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Joe Alt expected to be drafted in the first round of NFL Draft
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Students gearing up for local careers in Manufacturing
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Sunny today, but expect a wetter and warmer weekend
Proposed in Governor Eric Holcomb's Next Level Connections program:
- Commit $100 million to bridge the digital divide in rural areas of the state. The state will create a grant program to bring high speed, affordable broadband access to unserved and underserved areas of the state.
- Utilize $90 million to link communities through more hiking, biking and riding trails. The state will initiate a grant program that encourages local and regional collaboration to grow the state’s trails system.
- Complete major highway projects
- Accelerate completion of I-69 Section 6 from 2027 to 2024 ($600 million)
- Add new interchanges on U.S. 31 between South Bend and Indianapolis and expand the number of projects that will be completed on U.S. 20 and 30 through 2023 ($190 million)
- Focus INDOT resources to clean up the state’s highways
- Establish Indianapolis as the preferred Midwestern destination by adding more nonstop international flights ($20 million)
- Complete evaluation of the purchase of land to develop the state’s fourth port on the Ohio River near Lawrenceburg
- Pursue federal funding for the West Lake and South Shore rail projects in Northwest Indiana
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