Indiana officials are advertising for bids for preparatory work on the state‘s portion of the Ohio River Bridges Project.
Indiana Department of Transportation spokesman Will Wingfield says construction will begin this summer on a road extension between Utica, Indiana and the River Ridge Commerce Center.
It’s the first step toward construction of a new east end bridge.
“We anticipate with bids opening July 11 that we’ll be breaking ground about August in terms of beginning work there. The road extension would open about June, 2013, and obviously we still have the larger procurement for the east end bridge that will be ongoing at that time,” Wingfield said today.
Wingfield says officials hope to have the east end bridge finished by 2018, if not sooner.
Kentucky officials are working with potential contractors on the larger portion of the bridges project, construction of a span in downtown Louisville and the reconfiguration of Spaghetti Junction.
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