Improvements on a stretch of U.S. Highway 50 between Jackson County and Jennings County are set to begin next month. Indiana Department of Transportation officials met Monday afternoon with contractor representatives to discuss plans for repairing and repaving 8.3 miles of the road between U.S. 31 at Seymour and the U.S. 50 North Vernon bypass.

INDOT officials say that Dave O’Mara, INDOT’s contractor, will begin patching operations in early May. The contract’s completion date is September 30th. INDOT says this $1.9 million project calls for the milling and replacing pavement after completing full and partial-depth patching. Road and drive approaches will be paved and a sinusoidal wave will function along the center-line to warn drivers of cross-lane hazards.

The U.S. 50 resurfacing project is set to end just west of this summer’s roundabout construction at the U.S. 50/Walnut Street-County Road 400 West interchange, two miles west of North Vernon.