SR 1 Closes For Slide Repair Starting April 1

Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 1:21 PM

By Indiana Department of Transportation, news release

State Road 1 in Dearborn County will be closed for about three months.

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(Dearborn County, Ind.) - The Indiana Department of Transportation announced today that contractors will resume work on a slide correction project on State Road 1 in Dearborn County just north of Sawdon Ridge Rd.

Contractors will close State Road 1 in both directions beginning on or after Monday, April 1. 

State Road 1 will be open to Sawdon Ridge Road on the south end and North Dearborn Road on the north end during the closure. 

The official state highway detour will follow I-74, I-275, and U.S. 50.

The highway is expected to reopen by June 30, weather depending.

Motorists can learn about highway work zones and other traffic alerts at indot.carsprogram.org, 1-800-261-ROAD (7623) or 511 from a mobile phone. For highway information, monitor social media sites: www.Facebook.com/INDOTSoutheast and Twitter @INDOTSoutheast.  Subscribe to receive text and email alerts at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/INDOT/subscriber/new

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