East end: SR 262 at Dillsboro Constructed 1 October 1926 | Length 328 km | |
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Existed: October 1, 1926 – present West end: IL 141 on the Wabash Memorial Bridge at the Illinois state line Counties Clark County, Indiana, Crawford County, Indiana | ||
State Road 62 (SR 62) in the U.S. state of Indiana is an east–west route that travels 228 miles (367 km) from the Illinois state line in the southwest corner of Indiana to the Louisville, Kentucky area, then northeast toward the Cincinnati, Ohio area.
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Map of IN-62, Indiana, USA
Route description
SR 62 begins at the Wabash Memorial Bridge over the Wabash River between New Haven, Illinois and Posey County. Within the City of Evansville, SR 62 is the Lloyd Expressway, a divided expressway-grade highway until reaching U.S. Route 41 (US 41) nearly halfway through the city. The expressway contains a mix of intersections and interchanges. Despite the construction delays and need for improvements, the $160 million east–west expressway allows drivers to travel from one end of the city to the other with much greater ease.
Then, SR 62 travels concurrently with US 41/SR 66 to Morgan Avenue on which it leaves Evansville. East of Evansville, the four lane divided road continues to Chandler and then on to Boonville. It then becomes a two-lane road. For much of its trip through Spencer, Perry, Crawford, Harrison, and western Floyd counties, it is narrow, winding, and hilly.
SR 62 travels concurrently with I-64, I-265, and SR 265, bypassing the cities of New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville. The highway then turns to the northeast, serving the cities of Charlestown, Hanover and Madison before ending at SR 262 just south of US 50 at Dillsboro.
The highway forms part of the Lincoln Heritage Trail.
History
In the pre-Interstate era, SR 62 between Evansville and New Albany was also part of US 460, a heavily traveled route between St. Louis, Missouri and Louisville, Kentucky before I-64 supplanted it as a through route.
Before the extension of I-265, SR 62 traveled directly through the cities of New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville.
Lloyd Expressway
West of US 41, SR 62 is known as the Lloyd Expressway within Vanderburgh County.‹See TfD› It is named in honor of former Mayor Russell G. Lloyd, Sr. who was assassinated after leaving office in 1980. Evansville residents use the term "expressway" loosely due to the large number of stoplights along the Evansville stretch of the route. It is usually referred to simply as "the Lloyd".
The road was built in various stages and officially opened on July 19, 1988. The west section of the expressway was completed in the 1950s with plans to continue it east at a later date as funding became available.