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INDOT identifies 'Universe of Alternatives' in US 30/31 studies

The Indiana Department of Transportation has unveiled the next steps in its studies of the U.S. 30 and U.S. 31 corridors in northern Indiana.

INDOT began its Planning and Environment Linkages studies, known as ProPEL U.S. 30 and ProPEL U.S. 31, last summer to evaluate the transportation needs of the corridors, which encompass a total of 180 miles across 12 counties.

The study teams gathered their own data on the corridors and held several public meetings this year to gather input from residents to create a list of concepts known as the Universe of Alternatives tailored to each study area.

INDOT Senior Project Manager Sandra Flum tells Inside INdiana Business said the ideas identified in the latest update will include things that residents may or may not like.

"What we are bound to do is to make sure our study is complete," Flum said. "So we look at popular and unpopular things, but things that meet the need, in order to make sure that when we look back over the study, and when we have a final report that we can say it was a robust study that we didn't discard just aimlessly things that didn't work."

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