INDIANA STATE ROAD 912

'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. Indiana 912 can be considered a child route of U.S. Route 12.

Contents

Route description

Exit list

History

References

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 freeway is about 10 miles (16 km) long. This is the only State highway in Indiana the majority of which is of interstate quality. This portion also serves several of the steel mills (many now owed 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 mile (1.6 km) to Ridge Road (Business US 6).

Exit list

County	Location	Mile	#	Destinations	Notes
Lake	Hammond		1	U.S. Route 41 — Calumet Avenue	Last westbound exit before merging with the Indiana Toll Road
	East Chicago		3	Riley Road	Marked as "to Indianapolis Boulevard" ( U.S. Routes 12/20)
			5A	Michigan Avenue, Inland Steel Plant 1
			5B	Inland Steel Plant 2 E.B. Jeorse Park, Pastrick Marina	E.B. Exit to Resorts East Chicago Casino[1]
			5C	Jeorse Park, Pastrick Marina	Exit to Resorts East Chicago Casino Westbound exit only.
	Gary		6A	U.S. Route 12 west, State Road 312 — Columbus Drive, Chicago Avenue	Southbound exit, northbound entrance East Chicago is immediately west of Exits 6A through 7
			6B	U.S. Route 12 east — Industrial Highway	Southbound exit, northbound entrance
			6 (NB)	U.S. Route 12 — Columbus Drive, Industrial Highway	Northbound exit, southbound entrance. Northbound access to State Road 312.
			7	Interstate 90 (Indiana Toll Road) — Chicago, Toledo, Ohio	Gary Avenue in East Chicago
	Hammond and GaryThe 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.		8	U.S. Route 20 — Michigan Street, 5th Avenue	Marked incorrectly as " U.S. Route 12 east" traveling southbound, and incorrectly as a concurrent " U.S. 12/20" traveling northbound.
			9	169th Street, 15th Avenue
			10	Interstates 80/94/U.S. Route 6 — Chicago, Detroit, Michigan

History

Before the construction of the expressway, portions of Truck Route 912 were on Kennedy Avenue.
The overpass on the section between Inland Steel and Riley Road is known as the "Highway Workers Memorial Highway," in memory of 12 workers killed during construction.

References

1. Directions to Resorts East Chicago