Downtown Interstate Ramp Getting a Super Bowl Rebranding

The state is planning changes to a busy downtown interchange on I-70 in preparation for the Super Bowl in 2012. Signs on the highway will rebrand the McCarty Street exit as a Meridian Street exit. From the Indianapolis Star:

One of the more confusing exits leading to Downtown Indianapolis is getting a makeover starting tonight, and you can thank 2012 Super Bowl for helping straighten things out.

Starting tonight -- weather permitting -- the Indiana Department of Transportation and Indianapolis Department of Public Works crews will begin installing new signs along Interstate 70 so that Exit 79B points towards Meridian Street, instead of McCarty Street.

McCarty is an east-west street, while Meridian runs north-south and would take visitors to nightclubs, places to eat and, of course, Lucas Oil Stadium and related attractions.

Access to the roads won't change -- just the directional signs.

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