INDOT planning big changes for State Road 64 through Huntingburg

State Road 64 through Huntingburg will undergo major modifications in 2027 as the Indiana Department of Transportation plans to reduce the four-lane section through parts of town to three lanes.

INDOT hosted an open house at the Huntingburg Public Library Wednesday evening. Representatives from the department and VS Engineering were on hand to take questions from attendees.

According to INDOT, the rightsizing project is being undertaken to make the roadway safer while repairing the deteriorating roadway. By reducing the number of lanes, the number of conflict points for motorists is cut in half.

VS Engineering Project Engineer Brandon Durchholz explained that the configuration will still have 11-foot-wide east and westbound travel lanes and the turn lane will be 14 feet wide. Howerver, reducing the number of lanes will allow for a three-and-a-half-foot-wide to one-foot-wide outside median, compared to the lanes being directly against the curbs as they are now.

“It’s going to feel wider than what you have out there today,” he explained.

Along with the lane reduction, new drains and ADA-compliant sidewalk entrances will be added east of the U.S. 231 intersection.

All of these changes will be done in conjunction with milling and paving work on the roadway, which will begin and end at State Road 64 at the city limits.

According to INDOT Project Manager Emily Sprinkle, the bid letting will occur in November of this year and work could begin in the spring of 2027. “This is going to be phased construction, so we’ll be allowing traffic through one lane at a time,” she explained. “Overall we’re going to keep traffic moving throughout the life of the project.”

Sprinkle said, though they don’t have bids yet, they expect the project to cost over $2 million.