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Cline Avenue

State Road 912 marker

State Road 912
Cline Avenue
Route information
Maintained by INDOT
Length: 11.69 mi (18.81 km)
Major junctions
West end: I-90 / Indiana Toll Road in Hammond
 
South end:
Bus. US 6 in Griffith
Location
Counties: Lake
Highway system
SR 827 SR 930

State Road 912 marker

State Road 912 (SR 912), known along its entire length as Cline Avenue, is a freeway north of the combined Interstate 80/I-94/U.S. Highway 6 (I-80/I-94/US 6, Borman Expressway), 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.

On April 15, 1982, part of a ramp under construction collapsed during concrete pouring operations near the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, killing fourteen 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.

On December 28, 2009, the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) closed the elevated bridge portion of Cline Avenue between Calumet and Michigan avenues, a distance of nearly 3.5 miles (5.6 km). Corrosion had severely weakened most elements of the bridge, including the bridge piers, concrete, beams and cables. The bridge has been torn down and will be replaced with a toll crossing. Similar cases of corrosion have been identified in other bridges across the country.

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 ArcelorMittal) 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.


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