The Fishers City Engineering Department has received the bids for the planned construction at 141st Street and State Road 37, and the City Engineering Department Director Jason Taylor is recommending that the city reject all the bids received because they exceed the estimates.

Taylor says the city expected the bids to be over the estimates but “not this much.”

“We’re going to go back, analyze it, and then hopefully in the coming weeks be able to have more information on what happened, why the numbers were higher and then be able to make an educated decision and recommendation on next steps and will present those to the City Council and (Hamilton) County,” Taylor said in a podcast interview.

For more on that, and much more on local road issues, here is my podcast with Jason Taylor and Assistant Engineering Director Hatem Mekky.