Indiana State Road 912
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| State Road 912 |
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| Cline Avenue Highway Construction Workers Memorial Highway[1] |
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| Length: | 11.69 mi[2] (18.81 km) | ||||||||||||
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| West end: |   I-90/Indiana Toll Road in Hammond |
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| Major junctions: |
 US 12 in Gary, SR 312 I-90/Indiana Toll Road in Gary US 20 in Gary,  Borman Expressway in Gary |
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| South end: |   Business US 6 in Griffith |
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State Road 912, known along its entire length as Cline Avenue, SR 912 is a freeway north of the Borman Expressway (Interstates 80-94), and a local access road serving Griffith south of the Borman. The portion of Cline Avenue marked as SR 912 is 11.69 miles (18.81 km) long.[2] Indiana 912 can be considered a child route of U.S. Route 12.
On April 15, 1982, part of a ramp under construction collapsed during concrete pouring operations near the Indiana Harbor Ship Canal, killing twelve highway workers and injuring eighteen more. In 1987, the state designated the route between US 12 and the Indiana Toll Road as the Highway Construction Workers Memorial Highway.
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[edit] Route description
The freeway runs east from exit 3 of the Indiana Toll Road past the Gary/Chicago International Airport, and then south, also having an interchange with Toll Road exit 10. This portion also serves several of the steel mills (many now owned by Mittal Steel Company) and casinos in East Chicago and Gary, Indiana. The north-south portion between approximately US 20 and the Borman Expressway follows the border between Gary and Hammond, Indiana.
South of the Borman Expressway, Cline Avenue becomes a 4-lane divided highway. Indiana 912 extends south 1 mi (2 km) to Ridge Road (Business US 6).
[edit] History
Before the construction of the expressway, portions of Truck Route 912 were on Kennedy Avenue.
On April 15, 1982, twelve workers were killed and eighteen injured when falsework beneath a ramp under construction failed during a concrete pour.[3] The overpass on the section between Inland Steel and Riley Road is known as the "Highway Workers Memorial Highway," in memory of the workers.[1]
During the summer of 2006, numerous drivers reported possible attacks by a sniper on the eastern portion of Cline Avenue. Drivers reported having their windows and windshields shattered by unknown projectiles. Investigators, including the Federal Bureau of Investigations, suspected an assailant armed with a slingshot or a BB gun was shooting out windows. Others suspected the broken windows were due to flying gravel and abnormally warm temperatures. The shootings were not related to an earlier July 25 shooting death of a motorist on Interstate 65 south of Indianapolis. No arrests were ever made in the case.[4]
[edit] Exit list
| County | Location | Mile[2] | # | Destinations | Notes |
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| Lake | Hammond | 0.00 | N/A | I-90 West (Indiana Toll Road) — Chicago |
Western end of SR 912 |
| 0.81 | 1 |  US 41 — Calumet Avenue |
Last westbound exit before merging with the Indiana Toll Road | ||
| East Chicago | 2.75 | 3 | Riley Road | Marked as "to Indianapolis Boulevard" (US 12/20) | |
| 4.33 | 5A | Michigan Avenue, Inland Steel Plant 1 | |||
| 4.48 | 5B | Inland Steel Plant 2, E.B. Jeorse Park, Pastrick Marina | Eastbound exit only. Exit to Resorts East Chicago Casino.[5] | ||
| 4.86 | 5C | Jeorse Park, Pastrick Marina | Westbound exit only. Exit to Resorts East Chicago Casino.[5] | ||
| Gary[6] | 5.26 | 6A (SB) | US 12 West, SR 312 — Columbus Drive, Chicago Avenue |
Southbound exit, northbound entrance | |
| 5.62 | 6B (SB) | US 12 East — Industrial Highway |
Southbound exit, northbound entrance | ||
| 5.94 | 6 (NB) | US 12 — Columbus Drive, Industrial Highway |
Northbound exit, southbound entrance. Northbound access to SR 312. | ||
| 7.14 | 7 | I-90 (Indiana Toll Road) — Chicago, Toledo, Ohio |
Actually exits to Gary Avenue in East Chicago | ||
| Hammond and Gary[6] | 8.10 | 8 | US 20 — Michigan Street, 5th Avenue |
Marked incorrectly as "US 12 East" traveling southbound, and incorrectly as concurrent "US 12/20" traveling northbound.[7] | |
| 9.16 | 9 | 169th Street, 15th Avenue | |||
| 10.41 | 10 | I-80/94/US 6 — Chicago, Detroit, Michigan |
Eastern end of freeway | ||
| Griffith | 11.69 | N/A | Business US 6 (Ridge Road) |
Eastern end of SR 912 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Indiana Department of Transportation (1987). INDOT: Memorial Highways and Bridges. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.
- ^ a b c Indiana Department of Transportation (2004). LaPorte District Roadway Referencing System. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.
- ^ Unknown. "Bridge ramp falls, kills 12 at E. Chicago; 18 are injured", The Indianapolis Star, 1982-04-16. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.
- ^ Maxwell, Tonya and Huppke, Rex W.. "Even weather a suspect in Indiana 'sniper' case", Chicago Tribune, 2006-08-08. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
- ^ a b Resorts East Chicago (2008). Directions to Resorts East Chicago. Retrieved on 2008-04-17.
- ^ a b The Tiger Map Server Browser shows the city line along the pre-freeway alignment of Cline Avenue. South of the Indiana Toll Road interchange, this is the current alignment of SR 912, as can be confirmed on Google Maps. North of the S-curve at the Toll Road, the southbound frontage road is the old Cline Avenue and the city line, so those interchanges are completely in Gary.
- ^ Sarjeant, Charles (2005-04-03). Indiana Highway Ends: Indiana 912. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
