Carmel Drive to close April 1
For Current in Carmel

Carmel Drive will close at Keystone Parkway on or after Thursday, April 1st for construction of the roundabout interchange. After 30 days, Carmel Drive traffic can access Keystone only in a right in / right out configuration. This will continue for approximately 120 days before the interchange opens. Four lanes of traffic on Keystone Parkway will be maintained during construction of the Carmel Drive interchange. Subsequent news releases will be issued before each of the traffic pattern changes occur.

To ensure that those living and working in close proximity to the construction are aware of the upcoming road closure, residents and businesses in the affected area have received a postcard via direct mail. The postcard outlines the closure periods and provides detour maps of the Carmel Drive area. A similar postcard will be sent prior to the closures beginning at Main Street and Keystone Parkway. To view the detour maps online, click here, scroll down to the Intersection Detour Maps section and click on the Carmel Drive Intersection link.

Motorists are asked to use extreme caution in this area for their safety and the safety of construction workers. A 40 mile-per-hour speed limit is in effect and will be enforced in this construction zone along with the entire Keystone Parkway corridor from 96th Street to US 31.

The Carmel Drive interchange is part of the final phase of a three-year project to lower the grade of Keystone Parkway under six major interchanges along the five-mile stretch. When completed, the north-south traffic on Keystone Parkway will be free-flowing with no traffic lights between 98th Street and 146th Street, and tear-drop shaped roundabouts interchanges will manage the east-west traffic flow.

For more information on the project log on to www.CarmelLink.org.

The cities of Carmel and Westfield have decided to join forces to pursue a partnership with Google to bring fiber-to-the home connection to both cities.  Google plans to select a community to test their unique high speed connection later this year.  Communities nationwide will apply for this partnership and the selected communities will be the pilot cities and receive the installation of the unique high speed fiber access at no cost.

You could have access to one if Google selects Carmel/Westfield as a test site to install ultra high speed broadband network community wide. This would be about 100 times faster than most Americans have access to (more than 1 gigabit per second).

Here is how you can help:

Send us your 30 second video showing Google why they should install the high speed fiber in Carmel/Westfield. How would you benefit? How would your family benefit? How would your community benefit? Be creative, make it fun and keep it family friendly! DEADLINE – FRIDAY, MARCH 26.  Click this link to upload your video response.  http://www.youtube.com/user/CarmelWestfieldFiber

ALSO

Become a fan of “Google for Westfield/Carmel” fan page on Facebook.

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Simply nominate your community by clicking here www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi

Why Participate?

The most creative video submission will win a dinner for two at The Bridgewater Club attended by both Mayor Andy Cook of Westfield and Mayor Jim Brainard of Carmel.