The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-18
STATE ROADS
ARE imp PROVED
IN LAST week
Removal of Half Dozen De-
tours and Run-Arounds
Are Reported.

Removal of a half dozen detours
and run-arounds fwere major
changes in the State highway COM
MISSIONS bulletin issued today.
Director John D. Williams an
nounces that this has been the
greatest season in commission his
tory. Four hundred miles of road
have been placed in the paved class,
he points out.
List Surface Conditions
Surface conditions were listed as
follows:
No 1GCod stone ns S surface from fifty to
No. 2-one mile detour over paved road
miles, and five miles south of FIT. Wayne.
Detour from south OF Reiffsburg to Pc
No. 7-Closed between Madison and N.
Madison. Closed between N Madison and
Pleasant Point. Bridge run-around eleven
around seven and one-half miles south
east of Columbus and five and one-half
mile detogr southeast vi Of G9lum Etns ne.
tour south of Alexandria.
u s. No. 20-One-half mile detour at
Rolling Prairie. Detour one mile east OF
AI 3. s No. 2Lshort detour in Kentland.
Detour Just east of Huntington: .,. :.
Pleasant Lake. and one mile south, of Wa
terloo and south of Portland. Bridge run
around one nile nile soq q,aa OF 1ortS If ic
No.22s-Run-around one and one-half
mt north edge Of Knox and five and seven
miles north north Of La Porte 70 junction Of
vi i. S. s. No. sO-short detour in Plymouth
and Just east Of Bourbon.
miles .; north ORTIZ . Of Kokomo and one mile
MO- No. s21Run arounds one and ons;ha1f
nondale. Detour at east edge. of and run.
around two miles east Of Lebanon. Short
etonT STdge miles Mest Of
' No. s5-Naarrow road between Corydon
I .. S. No. ss>Pavement between Dan
Vile and Avon is open except short de-
tour at Abner's Greek. but shoulders are
NO. No. s7~Drive carefully past .workmen
No. ss-Detour six miles south of Frank
~ q. s. No. 41-Gravel approaches to sew
eral new bridges between Vincennes and
Haute Detour eight miles north of Terre
Haute. Run-around one mile Soutn OF
Lyford and. three and one-haf miles south
OF Rockville. Detour from three miles
north of Attica to Boswell and from four
miles north of Kentland to 1roquois river.
Detour st. John to Dyer. IL. ..,, 80
and !" one-half miles north OF Romney:
one-half miles east Of Nashville. Bridge
run-arounds four and t1ve and one-har
miles west Of sIoU %alR to sFi1ge run
east So Of 9V bedford ds' Bridge Tan-sToSnd 1ust
Of GA Aurora IL has las many sharp turns. ~
Of Montmorenci to oberlin. short detour
No. S.. Bridge run-arounds in Arthur,
1.6 miles west of Jasper and six ana one
half ies east OF w RaS asn and pr peo
detour marked. Earth surface between
Salem and scottsburg, impossible most Of
and Vevay for one-way traffic. ,,Detour
around bridge construction enc mile west
No. 81. TRAFFIC should drive. carefully
over new fill being constructed at, new
bridge, two and one=half miles rort1 o.
with two miles earth road across river
bottom between Rogers and SANDY HOOK
ss soHh Of wet WsSh saHsa a DsfOq bridge
rul-around three miles north OF Wash
No. o. e2-Detour from Corydon north on
Rd. S5 to Palmyra and southeast on Rd.
No. 64GShort detour in Tell city.
No. 66-Detour between Evansville and
Newburg. impossible between Newburg
and HATFIELD with no detour: Through
traffic avoid Sc and Evansville Rockport
traffic route via Rds. As and 81 until
No. 67-short detour in Edwardsport.
Bridge run-around four miles and four
and four-tenths miles east Of Gosport.
U. s. No 150-Under construction from
West Baden and French Lick to Paoli,
thence to Palmyra. There is a. local de-
tour between West Baden and Paolt.