Starke County is ahead of other entities in preparing for the possible upgrade of U.S. 30 to a freeway. That’s what Starke County Highway Superintendent Rik Ritzler told the county commissioners this week in his report of a recent U.S. 30 Coalition meeting in Warsaw.
“We’ve held public meetings, we have a committee in the county and we’ve done most of our traffic study work that needs to be done,” said Ritzler. “We’re way ahead of all of the other counties to do that. That meeting went well.”
In his report, Ritzler noted that he has also worked with a consultant to assess the feasibility of interchanges and overpasses at various locations, as well as origin and destination studies at relevant locations.
Ritzler added that a representative from MACOG offered to provide the county with data they’ve collected to help the county with their assessments. The county should be done with traffic data collection in February and the first draft of the report will be reviewed in a Starke County U.S. 30 Coalition meeting in March.
