June 18, 2010
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) - State highway officials are considering whether to tear down a 1¼-mile bridge on a northwestern Indiana expressway rather than make extensive repairs after shutting it down nearly a month ago.
A four-mile section Indiana 912, known locally as Cline Avenue, was closed from U.S. 41 in Hammond over the Indiana Harbor Canal in East Chicago after inspectors found significant damage where the 70-foot-tall concrete and steel piers meet the bridge deck.
State bridge inspection engineer William Dittrich says a consulting company has presented numerous options for the bridge, which opened in 1986.
An Indiana Department of Transportation plan released last month included a $90.6 million project to essentially replace the entire
span.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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