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Last updated on Wednesday, May 18, 2016
(BLOOMINGTON) - Indiana Department of Transportation officials strongly urge motorists to avoid traveling southbound State Road 37 Thursday between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. between Martinsville and Bloomington.
A jumbo transformer weighing 200 tons is scheduled for delivery from rail yards at Martinsville to Hoosier Energy's Bloomington Transmission Substation.
Drivers should consider these alternative routes:
The Hoosier Energy transformer - which measures 16 feet in height, 13 feet in width and 28 feet in length - will enter S.R. 37 at S.R. 44 on the north side of Martinsville blocking all lanes at the intersection for approximately 15 minutes. Indiana State Police will escort the 345-kilovolt to 230-kilovolt transformer being pushed and pulled by semi-tractors on a trailer weighing 600,000 pounds total weight to Sylvan Lane about 4 miles north of College Avenue in Monroe County.
At that location, it will placed in the median--restoring S.R. 37 southbound traffic flow.
On Friday motorists will again be impacted while the transformer is moved to Hoosier Energy's substation at Crossover Road. Officials anticipate a 30-minute delay to traffic on S.R. 37 at Crossover Road.
The move is being made under a permit issued by the state.
Motorists can learn about highway work zones and other traffic alerts at indot.carsprogram.org, 1-800-261-ROAD (7623) or 511 from a mobile phone. For highway information, monitor social media sites: www.Facebook.com/INDOTSoutheast and Twitter @INDOTSoutheast. Subscribe to receive text and email alerts at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/INDOT/subscriber/new.
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