Indiana to Ohio highway nears completion

FORT WAYNE – Indiana and Ohio transportation officials plan to complete a major stretch of a new highway between Fort Wayne and Toledo by this fall.

Officials say the new four-lane U.S. 24 will meet at the state line.

Ohio Department of Transportation spokeswoman Rhonda Pees said the $72.8 million section from the state line to Napoleon, Ohio, is 90 percent complete and should be finished by September. Pees says there are still sections of the road to be done from Napoleon to Toledo.

In Indiana, crews plan to finish work this year on U.S. 24 from Indiana 101 to the state line. The nearly $25 million project should be completed by late September.
The “Fort to Port” project replaces a two-lane road where there were a high number of fatal crashes.