Governor Daniels visits Buck Creek

Governor Mitch Daniels highlighted the rate at which at progress is being made on the Hoosier Heartland Corridor.

At a town hall meeting in Buck Creek, the governor called the project the state's "best success story in terms of accelerating an investment."

INDOT Spokeswoman Debbie Calder says 7 of the 8 contracts in Tippecanoe County have been let and work has begun on 4 of those contracts.

Daniels said the new highway will be a significant factor in bringing new jobs to Indiana.

"We'll soon have an uninterrupted corridor from Lafayette, the job center that it is, all the way to Fort Wayne and really on to the port of Toledo. It's going to be an unparalleled asset at a time when other states are cancelling road projects we're building one of the most important one we've ever had."

Calder says work in Tippecanoe County is scheduled to completed by 2012 and the entire 31 mile project from Lafayette to Logansport will be done by 2013.