New US 31 By-Pass around Kokomo, IN Opens 11/26/13
http://www.wthr.com/story/24069755/2013/11/26/us-31-bypass-of-kokomo-opens-today Long overdue!
Forum Discussion
tatest wrote:
Bypasses do not bypass for very long. The current congested route 31 through Kokomo used to be the bypass, 50 years ago. The most congested road in my city is the US-75 bypass built in the 1960s, almost no traffic on what used to be the main route through town, though parts were kept as a state highway.
Travel US-24 from Logansport to Fort Wayne on the new (1990s) alignment bypassing every town to see how commercial activity gets moved out to shopping centers on the bypass, as developers subdivide and build along the bypass.
It's happening on US-169 bypass alignments barely five years old.
Tatest - The State is using part of the $3.75 billion they received from the lease of the Indiana Toll Road to make US 31 from South Bend to Indianapolis interstate grade. So i don't think that will happen to the new by-pass, at least I hope not.
