Business blames Stop 11 and Emerson construction for drop in revenue

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INDIANAPOLIS — A traffic issue continues to persist on the south side, and now a local business says they're taking a hit.Business has been steady, so much so that a few other Indy's Burger Joints have opened up around town.Staff there told WRTV they've seen business drop by 50% since construction started.

"We've definitely seen our business slow down a bit," Sierra Underwood a server at the restaurant said."I know with the no left turn it's hard to get in here.""It's easier for people just to order and have someone else do the driving and pick it up," Underwood said."You see lines of traffic and it sucks that you can't turn left and yeah you just see a lot of traffic and it's always congested, it seems," Rita Wiley said.

Wiley says she's been coming to the burger joint since they opened and the recent construction has made the commute twice as long.The construction has been ongoing.A spokesperson for the Indianapolis Department of Public Works said construction continues on Stop 11 with traffic shifting to new lanes by the end of this week.

 

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