The grants, announced last week, benefit 218 government entities chosen after they submitted applications in January for a call for projects.

Hoosiers likely won't be getting speeding tickets from highway speed cameras anytime soon. That's after House Bill 1465 to create a pilot program for such cameras is all but dead this session.

The measure would allow speeding tickets for drivers caught by the cameras going at least 12 miles per hour over the limit.

Construction for the I-465 Reconfiguration project on the southside of Indianapolis is still more than a year away, but state transportation officials want to prepare drivers for what is planned.

The Indiana Department of Transportation will close a portion of Interstate 70 eastbound and westbound on Indianapolis' west side for approximately 30 days each.

The Indiana Department of Transportation closed eastbound I-70 on Monday between the highway's North Split with Interstate 65 near downtown Indianapolis to Interstate 465 on the city's east side.

The bill would have created a pilot program speed cameras in four work zones statewide. Tickets would only have been issued if a driver was caught going 11 miles per hour over the limit while workers were present.

Officials say closing a six-mile section of Indiana 37 will allow the work to be finished in one construction season rather than two.

The Kentucky Transportation Department says in a statement that lane closures on the Interstate 65 Kennedy Bridge will begin this week. The statement says the right three lanes of I-65 South will close at midnight on Nov. 8 and reopen at 5 a.m. on Nov. 27.

There seemed to be momentum building this summer for a study committee recommendation to pass such a bill. But the panel opted against it.