October 24, 2012

Contact: Josh Britton

Phone: (202) 225-5037

E-mail: Josh.Britton@mail.house.gov

Rokita: Hoosier Heartland Highway is Result of ‘Great Team Effort’

U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita today joined Gov. Mitch Daniels and other state and local officials at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Lafayette-to-Delphi segment of the Hoosier Heartland Highway. Rokita also helped lead the ceremonial caravan in his restored 1973 Corvette.

            “Today is a great day for the Wabash Valley, and for our entire state,” said Rokita. “This is the culmination of a great team effort that will result in safer travel and much bigger economic opportunities for the counties and communities served by the highway. It’s been an honor to work with Gov. Daniels, former state Sen. Tom Weatherwax and others to make this a reality.”

Earlier this year, Rokita and a bipartisan group of Indiana’s congressional delegation fought to stop a proposed ban on federal funds being used under public-private partnership arrangements, including the Indiana East-West Toll Road. Through the state’s Major Moves program, the toll road deal freed up billions of dollars to fund other needed projects such as the Hoosier Heartland Highway.

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