More logistics problems have surfaced:

1. The State Police Post was moved from the IN-45 / 46 bypass at Fee Lane when that bypass was widened to 4 lanes. It was put on Packinghouse Road to have close access to the state highway system. But Packinghouse Road is now 1.3 to 2.7 miles away from the state highway system (depending on direction).
2. The Indiana State Highway Garage on Prow Road was formerly just a small distance (less than a mile) from both Indiana 46 and Indiana 37. Now it has been disconnected from both highways. The shortest distance for big trucks (not using residential roads) is over 2 miles to IN-46 and is nearly 4 miles to IN-37.
3. Large trucks have obstructions trying to reach Fountain Drive and West 11th Street.

   All of the possible routes have obstacles after the construction is finished:

   1. Fountain Drive (formerly Vernal Pike) no longer has access to I-69 / IN-37.
   2. Adams Street has a low clearance railroad bridge and a hump railroad crossing.
   3. Part of Fountain Drive has either a low clearance or a hump crossing to get to it.
   4. 11th Street has a low clearance railroad bridge at Fairview Street.
   5. Monroe Street has a medium-sized roundabout at 17th Street.
   6. Crescent Rd (the obvious choice) is posted NO TRUCKS.
4. People going to and from Monroe Hospital had a changing circuitous route to follow during the construction.
5. Mistakes made since the State of Indiana took over the project on 07/31/2017

   The following are places where things were done wrong since 07/31/2017

   1. Signs that indicate safe maneuvers are left in place while lanes needed for those maneuvers are closed, making them impossible. Example: The ramp is an added lane and is signed with added lane signs. But workers cone off one lane without covering the added lane signs and providing a yield sign. THIS IS DANGEROUS.
   2. There are two places where they have chosen to close the left lane at the same place where an entrance ramp is merging from the right. Signs indicate the closure of the left lane as a need to merge right where entering traffic from the ramp can see them. Dropping lanes on both sides at the same place is also discouraged. THIS IS DANGEROUS.
   3. When lanes are shifted, the old markings are left in place. Only the traffic cones and barrels are moved.
   4. In other cases when lanes are shifted, the old markings are left in place, but new ones are added too. The traffic cones and barrels are moved, but too many drivers follow the wrong marks.
   5. Signs saying TO 37 are still posted pointing to side roads that no longer have any access to IN-37 and haven't had any access for months.
   6. Where markings were changed, they used stick-down tape lines. The lines did not stay where they were supposed to be, but came loose and wandered. They have not removed the erroneous lines.
   7. The southbound entrance ramp from IN-48 has no acceleration lane, but does have adequate warning of its absence. But this is still DANGEROUS to traffic. It is hard to see backwards in some vehicles at the end of a ramp.
   8. The state is not obeying the promise to keep two lanes open in each direction that the private contractors had to obey. Multiple parts of IN-37 have only one lane open in each direction.
   9. Detours were not posted for getting to Shaw Rd, Monroe Medical Park Bv, or Monroe Medical Offices in August and September.
   10. Ways to get to Shaw Rd and Monroe Medical Park Bv kept changing.
   11. An erroneous detour was posted for getting to west Fullerton Pk. It sent people to Kirksville.
   12. People trying to get to Monroe Medical Offices (on Monroe Medical Park Bv) saw signs for Medical Park (on Tapp Td) and followed an erroneous detour.
   13. The traffic Signal at IN-37 and Tapp Road was wrongly set to give a very short light for southbound IN-37, causing traffic backups. This was fixed.
   14. A sign on southbound IN-37 directs people to turn off at Exit 115 for Monroe Hospital. But no other signs identify where Exit 115 is. This has been fixed.
   15. A sign on southbound IN-37 telling people to turn off for Monroe Hospital had no arrow telling which way to go. This has been fixed.
   16. Very rough changes in pavement level are on the southbound exit ramp to Fullerton Pike, the southbound entrance ramp from Fullerton Pike and the connection from west Fullerton Pike to the roundabout. These could damage vehicles. This has been partially fixed.
   17. The southbound entrance ramp from Fullerton Pike has no acceleration lane and no adequate warning of its absence, since the same signage is used at other ramps with short acceleration lanes. This has been fixed.
   18. A sign on northbound IN-37 directs people to a not-yet-constructed Exit 116 for Tapp Road. This has been covered.
   19. Three signs on southbound IN-37 contradict each other on detours:
       • TAPP ROAD CLOSED DETOUR FULLERTON PIKE
       • DETOUR AHEAD FULLERTON PIKE (this sign was removed March 2018)
       • DETOUR TAPP ROAD (right arrow to IN-45 ramp)

       This has been erroneous since October 2017.

   20. Many of the construction and detour signs put up by the private management before the state took over are still in place, though they are now erroneous.
   21. Use of directional arrows on detour signs is not uniform. At one exit, one sign has a slanted turn arrow and another sign has a horizontal turn arrow - for the same turn.
   22. Some changeable message signs are not aimed to be seen for more than 5 seconds.
   23. Some changeable message signs are totally dark due to cloudy days not charging the batteries.
   24. One changeable message sign has one letter panel totally dark.
   25. One changeable message sign had "yield" spelled YEILD. This has been removed.
   26. Some detours are several miles long to the nearest point where cars could make U-turns. They are sparsely signed. What large trucks are supposed to do is not disclosed.
   27. A merge sign for a merge from the right is on the left side of the highway.
   28. A sign for lane shifts is still in place where the lane shifts have already been removed.
   29. On 09/21/2017 they covered the traffic signals at Tapp Road preparatory for removing it. Then on 09/22/2017 they uncovered them again. They finally removed them in early November.
   30. They removed the traffic signals at Tapp Road in early November, but the SIGNAL AHEAD signs for northbound traffic are still there.
   31. Signs tell drivers to get into the left lane for I-69 and the right lane for IN-37. Then they closed the left lane for more work, undoing what the signs say to do.
   32. The eastbound lane on That Road has no shoulder where it used to connect to IN-37. Instead there are barricades flush with the edge of the road. The shoulder should be restored. They replaced the barricades with traffic cones in early November, but they have not yet replaced the shoulders. This was fixed in January 2018.
   33. Fumes emitted from under a tent under the Second St (IN-45) bridge were causing car engines with oxygen sensors to misfire after the cars passed under the bridge. This is now gone. In November they put the tent under the Third St (IN-48) bridge, causing the same problem.
   34. A westbound lane on Third St was closed just west of the I-69 / IN-37 interchange on 05/09/2018. Traffic backed up on Westbound Third St all the way to Adams St. But traffic did not back up substantially on either of the interchange exit ramps.

       The problem was that the ramp signals were coordinated to each other:

       1. The east ramp signal releases northbound ramp traffic onto the bridge. It fills up the bridge space between the two signals. The west ramp signal turns green for westbound traffic during this period and starts to empty the space between the ramp signals.
       2. When the east ramp signal turns green for westbound traffic, the bridge is full and there is no room for more cars between the ramp signals. By the time the east end of the bridge empties out, both signals turn red for westbound traffic. Only two or three cars can enter the bridge from the east on each cycle.
       3. The next east ramp phase is for eastbound left turns. This stops westbound traffic, keeping it from entering the empty part of the bridge. Very little traffic was turning left.

       The signals were not traffic actuated because construction had destroyed the loop detectors.

       When both lanes on the bridge are open, there is room for the traffic to pass through without backing up.

       They should have adjusted the signals so westbound traffic could get through.

   35. The state plan to complete the project "on time at reduced cost" closes more lanes of traffic for longer periods than the privately-run plan would have done. Traffic backs up daily at rush hour.
   36. The state plan to complete the project "on time at reduced cost" might not have provided the two straight-ahead lanes and two turn lanes for eastbound IN-45 at the northbound IN-37 / I-69 ramps that were in the private plan.
       Update: The state is now constructing those lanes.
   37. The state plan to complete the project "on time at reduced cost" has traffic backing up on Second Street from the interchange all the way to Walnut Street. It also has traffic backed up on IN-48 from Ivy Tech to the interchange. These backups are at times other than rush hour.
   38. The traffic signals at Second Street and the southbound ramps of IN-37 and I-69, at Second Street and Liberty Drive, at Second Street and Basswood Drive, at Third Street and Gates Drive, at Third Street and Wynndale Drive, and the southbound IN-37 ramps at Third Street all have circular greens over exclusive left turn lanes that violate the MUTCD.

       - A circular green is not allowed to be in a signal face placed over or in front of an exclusive left turn lane.

       - UPDATE 08/10/2018: The signals at the six intersections with the wrongly installed 5-section faces now have Flashing Yellow Arrows instead. The temporary construction signals violated the MUTCD to reduce the cost and amount of labor needed to convert them.

       - UPDATE 08/13/2018: The signal on the Sam's Club driveway on the Second Street interchange has a flashing yellow arrow face and two 3-section thru signal faces. This violates the MUTCD because there is only one lane open and the left green arrow shows with circular red at the same time on a single lane approach.

   39. The wrong merge signs appear at some entrance ramps. Signs for a lane-ends merge are posted where there is an added-lane merge.

   There is no way a self-driving car could correctly navigate this construction zone.

   Democrats repeatedly did things that caused the private contracts to fail and to lower the values of the private bonds. They did this because they oppose all privatization. They also oppose building I-69, but can't stop that.

6. Through lack of coordination between state, county and city governments, a nightmare of interlocking road closings beginning on 05/10/2018:

   CONSTRUCT-LOK 2018

   There is no unobstructed way to get between anywhere west of the IN-37 bypass and downtown Bloomington.

   The county and city made their contracts expecting I-69 to be completed in 2017.

   This reminds me of an old song (with slightly altered lyrics):

       "And they tell me, over and over and over and over again... that you can't get there. The road is under construction."

Both the State Police Post and the Highway Garage may have to be moved. The Monroe Hospital problem was fixed when the Fullerton Pike interchange was finished.