Wider is worse if you are a child at Chandler School. Wider is worse if you live near Madison or on many other streets in Goshen that will get more traffic if Madison is widened. Wider is worse if have children who bicycle to the library, to the park, or if you have children who attend Parkside School. Wider is worse if you want to cross main at Goshen College. Wider is worse if you live on North Main. Wider is worse for anybody who walks in Goshen. Most streets in Goshen will get more congested, more hazardous, louder, and smokier if Madison is widened and a bypass is not built.

In April, 1998, at the request of INDOT (Indiana Department of Transportation), MACOG (Michiana Area Council of Governments) used their computer simulation program to make traffic count projections based on several scenarios. The above graph is based on those numbers. 

Below we can see how the limited access bypass assumption for 2015 was drawn in. It was a "C" shape beginning on the north at SR 15 north of CR 26. It went west and south, connecting US 33 just south of CR 17. It paralleled CR 17 and turned east between CR 38 and CR 40. It connected with  SR 15 between the two CR 40s in Waterford. It connected with US 33 just north of CR 40. 

If a bypass is built, there are a number of other locations and routes that would need to by assessed before proceeding.  This bypass was not a proposal based on any planning and no engineering had been done. This bypass route was simply an assumption used to make computer predictions related to traffic numbers. 

The illustration below is a scan taken directly from the MACOG printout. It includes some of the traffic count projections for the year 2015. Color was added to clarify the bypass location assumed in the computer simulation prediction.