INDIANAPOLIS -- The fight over how to renovate the I-65/I-70 North Split in downtown Indianapolis has a new voice.
Mayor Joe Hogsett sent a letter to one of the project's community leaders Thursday. In the letter, Hogsett seems to be siding against the current INDOT plans for the North Split, and siding with the "Rethink 65/70 Coalition." The Rethink 65/70 Coalition is a group of residents urging INDOT to consider a radically different footprint for the downtown interstate system.
"With the focus now shifting back to a North Split project, I urge INDOT to minimize harm to downtown neighborhoods while striving, 'to maintain the existing interchange in a safe, functioning condition,'" Hogsett wrote in the letter.
The group says it is trying to avoid the destruction of neighborhoods that happened decades ago when the current North Split divided parts of downtown.
Read Hogsett's letter below, or click here.
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