I-69 extension is NOT Mitch's baby. It'd already be built before he took office if it hadn't been for the weak-kneed predecessor
So now we get a new terrain highway when we can't afford to keep up the roads we have now. They go on about how that damn highway is going to be the states saviour. Sheesh... it's not like there are NO roads running north from any number of points south.
The project is going to save maybe 20 minutes over an upgraded route, and divide towns, farms, and be a boon to all sorts of RE speculators and developers who love nothing more than turning under land in favor of concrete and asphalt.
I'm sure Mitch sold out to his big money men with some of the crap he pulled in his first 30 days in office. Never mind what the people of the state actually wanted.