Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SCR0030 Compare Versions

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Old	New	Differences
1	1	Introduced Version
2	2	SENATE CONCURRENT
3	3	RESOLUTION No. _____
4	4	DIGEST OF INTRODUCED RESOLUTION
5	5	A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the Indiana
6	6	Department of Transportation, HNTB Corporation, Walsh
7	7	Construction, and their many partners on having a portion of Interstate
8	8	69 Finish Line, located in Martinsville and Morgan County, Indiana,
9	9	recognized as the top roadway project in the United States for 2022.
10	10	BRAY
11	11	, read first time and referred to Committee on
12	12	2023 RC 1524/DI SM Introduced
13	13	First Regular Session 123rd General Assembly (2023)
14	14	SENATE CONCURRENT
15	15	RESOLUTION No. _____
16	16	1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION congratulating the
17	17	2 Indiana Department of Transportation, HNTB Corporation,
18	18	3 Walsh Construction, and their many partners on having a
19	19	4 portion of Interstate 69 Finish Line, located in Martinsville and
20	20	5 Morgan County, Indiana, recognized as the top roadway project
21	21	6 in the United States for 2022.
22	22	7 Whereas, The Interstate 69 (I-69) Finish Line is a
23	23	8 realization of 75 years of community studies and discussions to
24	24	9 connect Evansville to Indianapolis through 142 miles of an
25	25	10 improved, multi-lane highway system;
26	26	11 Whereas, The final 26 mile section of interstate, spanning
27	27	12 from Martinsville to Indianapolis, was split into five
28	28	13 construction contracts to create 35 lane miles of local access
29	29	14 roads and 39 new bridges, rehabilitate 35 existing bridges, and
30	30	15 remove 14 traffic signals in order to reduce regional annual
31	31	16 crash numbers by 1,300 and generate $4.1 billion in economic
32	32	17 impact over the next twenty years;
33	33	18 Whereas, The I-69 Finish Line's Contract 2 was awarded
34	34	19 to Walsh Construction and focused on six miles of State Road
35	35	20 37 through Martinsville that serves as a crucial road in the city
36	36	21 and includes heavily-used access points to multiple businesses,
37	37	22 and was the only I-69 contract that had to remove an existing
38	38	23 highway passing through a city to replace it with an interstate;
39	39	24 Whereas, State, county, and municipal stakeholders
40	40	25 coordinated to fully close the corridor during construction,
41	41	26 which ensured the safety of workers and motorists, accelerated
42	42	2023 RC 1524/DI SM 2
43	43	1 road completion of Contract 2 by a full year, and assisted
44	44	2 Contract 4, which was awarded to Reith-Riley Construction
45	45	3 and encompassed the area from Martinsville to State Road 144,
46	46	4 to be accelerated due to lower traffic volumes;
47	47	5 Whereas, The planning and construction phases of
48	48	6 Contract 2 experienced multiple challenges, including the need
49	49	7 to reevaluate stormwater drainage patterns and management
50	50	8 to support the abundance and quality of groundwater, moving
51	51	9 and locating various utility lines from at least sixteen different
52	52	10 utility companies, keeping open communication with businesses
53	53	11 and Indiana University to limit impacts, and engaging with a
54	54	12 new local administration regarding the project's background
55	55	13 and upcoming activities;
56	56	14 Whereas, The project team gave particular attention to
57	57	15 creating community cohesiveness by constructing gateway
58	58	16 monuments reminiscent of the Morgan County Courthouse
59	59	17 Clock Tower inside the interchanges of State Roads 39 and 44,
60	60	18 and replicated the brick samples of the Morgan County
61	61	19 Courthouse into nearly 1.4 miles of noise barriers;
62	62	20 Whereas, Collaborative planning by hundreds of engineers,
63	63	21 planners, and the local community resulted in a final product
64	64	22 that not only serves the transportation needs of Hoosiers, but
65	65	23 also aesthetically reflects the historic character of Martinsville
66	66	24 and Morgan County; and
67	67	25 Whereas, Portions of the I-69 Finish Line were completed
68	68	26 and opened to traffic by December 21, 2021, exhibiting a high
69	69	27 quality of design, construction, and traffic maintenance that
70	70	28 resulted in Roads and Bridges magazine recognizing it as the
71	71	29 top roadway project in the United States during its 2022 annual
72	72	30 review of major construction projects and enhancing Indiana's
73	73	31 reputation as the "Crossroads of America": Therefore,
74	74	32 Be it resolved by the Senate of the General Assembly
75	75	33 of the State of Indiana, the House of Representatives
76	76	34 concurring:
77	77	35 SECTION 1. That the Indiana General Assembly
78	78	2023 RC 1524/DI SM 3
79	79	1 congratulates the Indiana Department of Transportation, HNTB
80	80	2 Corporation, Walsh Construction, and their many partners on
81	81	3 having a portion of Interstate 69 Finish Line, located in
82	82	4 Martinsville and Morgan County, Indiana, recognized as the top
83	83	5 roadway project in the United States for 2022.
84	84	6 SECTION 2. The Secretary of the Senate is hereby directed
85	85	7 to transmit copies of this Resolution to Michael Smith,
86	86	8 Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Transportation
87	87	9 (INDOT), the INDOT Central Office, INDOT Major Projects
88	88	10 Division, INDOT Seymour District office, Butler, Fairman, &
89	89	11 Seufert Inc., CDM Smith, Corradino LLC, Crawford, Murphy,
90	90	12 & Tilly Inc., HNTB Corporation, Lochmueller Group, Rieth-
91	91	13 Riley Construction, Walsh Construction, and WSP.
92	92	2023 RC 1524/DI SM