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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byINDOT | ||||
| Length | 123.33 mi[1] (198.48 km) | |||
| Existed | 1956–present | |||
| NHS | Entire route | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  I-64 atIllinois state line | |||
| Major intersections |  US 41 nearHaubstadt  I-69 /SR 57 nearElberfeld US 231 nearDale  SR 62 /SR 64 inGeorgetown US 150 nearGreenville I-265 /SR 62 inNew Albany | |||
| East end | I-64 /US 150 atKentucky state line | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Indiana | |||
| Counties | Posey,Vanderburgh,Gibson,Warrick,Spencer,Dubois,Perry,Crawford,Harrison,Floyd | |||
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Interstate 64 (I-64) in the US state ofIndiana is a major east–west highway providing access betweenIllinois andKentucky. It passes through southern Indiana as part of its connection between the two metropolitan areas ofSt Louis, Missouri, andLouisville, Kentucky.
I-64 has a route through the state which travels through mostly rural areas, passing through all four Indiana counties of theEvansville metropolitan area, but the final portion of the route is encompassed by theLouisville metropolitan area. The highway enters Indiana after crossing theWabash River from Illinois. It passes throughPosey County before straddling theGibson–Vanderburgh county line, where it connects withU.S. Highway 41 (US 41) andI-69 which travels south toEvansville and north toMartinsville, both intersections being within Gibson County. Continuing eastward, I-64 passes throughWarrick County before straddling theSpencer–Dubois county line, which is also the boundary between theCentral and theEastern time zones.[2] It continues into and throughPerry County (back in the Central Time Zone), before crossing intoCrawford County where, from that point on, it remains in the Eastern Time Zone. (Between milemarkers 60 and 80, I-64 crosses the Central/Eastern time zone boundary five times.) This portion of the route also travels throughHoosier National Forest through several sharp valleys and steep hills, largely in Perry, Crawford, and Harrison counties with some large hills in Spencer and Dubois counties as well. Beyond the forest, the Interstate travels throughHarrison andFloyd counties, before crossing theSherman Minton Bridge over theOhio River intoLouisville, Kentucky. Between Spencer County and Louisville, the highway traverses sharp valleys and hills.
I-64 was built across the eastern US between St. Louis and theHampton Roads area of Virginia in the 1960s and 1970s. In Indiana, the highway was originally routed alongUS 50, but political influences from Evansville rerouted the highway alongUS 460 (since decommissioned in Indiana).[citation needed]
Like all Interstate highways in Indiana, I-64 was constructed in segments which, when all were complete, made up the route in use today. There were eight segments in all, with the first to be opened being the very short segment from theKentucky state line on the Sherman Minton Bridge to Spring Street inNew Albany, which became operational on December 22, 1961. By the end of 1968, two more segments consisting of 12.94 miles (20.82 km) had opened, one near each end of the route in the state. By the end of 1972, two more segments were completed in southwestern Indiana, and I-64 was open fromState Road 57 (SR 57; later, also I-164 and nowpart of the extension of I-69) north ofEvansville west to theIllinois state line.[3] The three final segments of I-64 in the long stretch between SR 57 andSR 64 inFloyd County were completed later in the decade,[citation needed] with the final stretch opening nearFerdinand in 1979.[citation needed]
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The Sherman Minton Bridge across the Ohio River was closed in 2011 after two major cracks were found.[4] However, the bridge reopened the following February after extensive repairs.[5]
TheOhio River Bridges Project in theLouisville/Falls City metro area, while mainly affectingI-65 andI-265, has sparked opposition, most notably8664, which calls for I-64 to be rerouted out of downtown Louisville (and, thus, the Minton Bridge) onto the new, extended route for I-265. They suggest the portion of I-64 between the current I-64/I-265 interchange in New Albany and its Kentucky counterpart be resigned as I-364.[6]
| County[7] | Location[7] | mi[8] | km | Exit | Destinations[citation needed] | Notes |
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| Wabash River | 0.0 | 0.0 |  I-64 west | Continuation into Illinois | ||
| Posey | Griffin | 4.3 | 6.9 | 4 |   SR 69 south –New Harmony,Mount Vernon,Griffin | Northern terminus of SR 69 |
| Poseyville | 11.9 | 19.2 | 12 |  SR 165 –Poseyville | ||
| Vanderburgh | Armstrong Township | 17.6 | 28.3 | 18 |  SR 65 –Cynthiana,Evansville | |
| Vanderburgh–Gibson county line | Scott–Johnson township line | 24.9 | 40.1 | 25 | US 41 –Evansville,Terre Haute | Signed as 25A (south) and 25B (north) |
| Gibson–Warrick county line | Johnson–Greer township line | 29.4 | 47.3 | 29 | I-69 /SR 57 –Evansville,Indianapolis | I-69 exits 21A-B; signed as exits 29A (south) and 29B (north); Former Interstate 164 |
| Warrick | Lynnville | 39.3 | 63.2 | 39 |  SR 61 –Lynnville,Boonville | |
| Pigeon Township | 53.5 | 86.1 | 54 |  SR 161 –Holland,Tennyson | ||
| Spencer | Dale | 56.4 | 90.8 | 57 | US 231 –Dale,Huntingburg,Jasper | Signed as exits 57A (south) and 57B (north);Central time zone |
| Dubois–Spencer county line | Ferdinand | 62.9 | 101.2 | 63 |  SR 162 –Ferdinand,Jasper,Santa Claus | Exit 63 is in Dubois County inEastern time zone; re-enters Spencer County/Central time zone; re-enters Dubois County/Eastern time zone |
| Perry | Clark Township | 72.2 | 116.2 | 72 |  SR 145 –Birdseye,Bristow | Central time zone |
| Oil Township | 78.4 | 126.2 | 79 |  SR 37 –Tell City | Central time zone | |
| Crawford | Union Township | 85.7 | 137.9 | 86 |   SR 237 north –English,Sulphur | Terminus of SR 237; Eastern time zone |
| Jennings Township | 92.0 | 148.1 | 92 |  SR 66 –Marengo,Leavenworth | ||
| Harrison | Corydon | 105.3 | 169.5 | 105 |  SR 135 –Palmyra,Corydon | |
| Franklin Township | 112.5 | 181.1 | 113 | Lanesville | ||
| Floyd | Edwardsville | 117.8 | 189.6 | 118 |  SR 64 west /SR 62 west –Edwardsville,Georgetown | Western end of SR 62 overlap; eastern terminus of SR 64 |
| New Albany | 119.4 | 192.2 | 119 | US 150 west –Greenville | Western end of US 150 concurrency | |
| 121.5 | 195.5 | 121 |     I-265 east (Lee H. Hamilton Freeway) /SR 62 east toI-65 | I-265 exit 0; eastern end of SR 62 concurrency. | ||
| 123.3 | 198.4 | 123 | New Albany | UnsignedSR 111 | ||
| Ohio River | 123.33 | 198.48 | Sherman Minton Bridge | |||
| I-64 east /US 150 east | Continuation into Kentucky | |||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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