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Next Phase

Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Photos by JARED JERNAGAN, Editor
As one excavator sits dormant on Washington Street, crews use a second to load concrete barriers onto a flatbed semi trailer in front of the Old National Bank building Wednesday morning. In place since shortly after the current portion of the U.S. 231 construction project through Greencastle started, the barriers were being removed from a nearly half-mile stretch of Washington, Bloomington and Jackson Streets Wednesday in preparation for the next phase of the work, which involves the complete shutdown of both lanes of Washington Street between Bloomington and Jackson streets, as well as one block of each of the other two streets, as crews replace a century-old sewer pipe. The closure could last into early November, according to Indiana Department of Transportation estimates.
Banner Graphic/JARED JERNAGAN

Banner Graphic/JARED JERNAGAN
Elsewhere along the closed portion of U.S. 231, workers remove an ornamental street light in preparation for road work on the block of North Jackson Street adjacent to the Putnam County Courthouse.
Banner Graphic/JARED JERNAGAN
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  • Another ridiculous disaster.

    -- Posted by Queen53 on Thu, Jun 20, 2024, at 11:43 AM

  • Queen53 -how about some kind words to the workers in this weather and to the City Council. This is a project no one wants but is a necessity. I don’t like it either but there are plenty of other streets we can use- even to get to the businesses . I am tired of everyone complaining either about the bad streets or now the construction.Kudos to the ones who are trying to help our town. I am proud to live in Greencastle.

    -- Posted by Nit on Thu, Jun 20, 2024, at 3:48 PM

  • Nit..... The workers are great. Having to work out in this heat would be awful. I'm not blaming them. It just seems like there has been so much at once.

    -- Posted by Queen53 on Thu, Jun 20, 2024, at 8:12 PM

  • This is an INDOT project, including Bloomington Street last year (note that all this work is being done on US 231). Not only is the State FINALLY improving this roadway, but they're also upgrading the sanitary sewer main on Washington Street and the water main on North Jackson Street, both of which are well in excess of a century old!

    -- Posted by gustave&zelma on Fri, Jun 21, 2024, at 11:26 AM
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