I-69 to be built piecemeal, highway official says
Posted: July 28, 2009 at 4:25 p.m.
WEST MEMPHIS — Arkansas' top highway official says the state's portion of Interstate 69 will be built on only a piecemeal basis unless the federal government makes a major financial commitment to it.
Dan Flowers, director of the state Highway and Transportation Department, said the magnitude of the interstate means it won't get done for a very long time. I-69 is a planned eastern highway to run from Canada to Mexico, with portions in Arkansas.
Flowers made his comments during a meeting Tuesday at West Memphis with lawmakers.
The Federal Highway Administration approved the I-69 route through much of Arkansas in 2006. Estimates then put the 185-mile Arkansas portion of the highway at $1.7 billion.
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