A while back there was an interesting story http://www.hoosiergazette.com/News/Nov2004/news003.htm in the Hoosier Gazette about a congressman in Indiana who was convinced by religious leaders to change the number of I-69 to something more “moral sounding”. The story noted that the congressman wanted to change the number to I-63 past Indianapolis. The article was fictitious satire, but I’m in a mood for a new interstate number.
I-69’s extension is sometimes called the NAFTA Superhighway, extending from Mexico to Canada. Critics say http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070304/OPINION02/703040309/1014/OPINION that the road will bring increased globalization and more problems for America’s already overstressed working class. Proponents say the new interstate construction will bring more commerce and business. If anything, it’s telling that the only stretch of the highway already open (far) outside of MI and IN is the one that connects the lucrative casinos of Tunica to I-55.
