Skyrocketing highway construction costs in Indiana don’t just come down to inflation, state and industry leaders say.
Indiana spent an average of $46 million to construct a centerline mile of interstate highway in the 2026 state fiscal year, which ended in June. That’s up nearly 450% from the $8.4 million average recorded in the 2015 fiscal year, according to a slide shared in a late August meeting of the State Budget Committee meeting.
“That’s unbelievable,” Sen. Fady Qaddoura, D-Indianapolis, said…