Borman Expressway
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| Borman Expressway |
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| Maintained by Indiana Department of Transportation | |||||||||
| Length: | 16 mi (26 km) | ||||||||
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| West end: | Illinois state line near Munster | ||||||||
| Major junctions: |
 I-65 in Gary |
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| East end: |  I-90 in Lake Station |
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| Counties: | Lake | ||||||||
| System: | Interstate Highway System | ||||||||
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The Frank Borman Expressway is an east-west highway in northwest portion of the U.S. state of Indiana, carrying Interstate 80, Interstate 94, and U.S. Highway 6, as well as a short section of U.S. Highway 41. It runs from the Illinois state line east to the Lake/Porter County Line, just east of the junction with the Indiana Toll Road, a distance of 16 miles (26 km). Interstate 94 continues east toward Michigan City, Indiana, and into Michigan to Detroit, which is the control city for the eastbound Borman. The Borman Expressway has been identified in federal transportation legislation as part of High Priority Corridor 18, Segment 27, making current and future construction projects on I-94 eligible for federal funding in association with extending Interstate 69 to the Texas/Mexico border.
The Borman Expressway is a major truck thoroughfare, providing a free alternative to the Indiana Toll Road/Chicago Skyway combination (Interstate 90) to the north. Originally constructed in segments starting in the 1950s, with its Illinois counterpart, the Kingery Expressway, reconstruction of the expressway began in 2003. The reconstruction of both the Kingery and the Borman aim to significantly reduce the amounts of delays encountered on the highway. The reconstructed portion of the Borman is 8 lanes wide, with additional collector-distributor lanes between interchanges.
The Borman Expressway is named after Frank Borman, commander of the Apollo 8 space mission from Gary.[1]
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[edit] Interchanges
There are eleven exits on the Borman Expressway. These interchanges (except for Central Avenue) are full interchanges, but the intersection with Interstate 65 is spread out over the course of a mile and a half.
| County | Location | Mile and |
Destinations | Notes and Auxiliary Destination Signs |
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| Lake | Hammond | 1 |   U.S. Route 41 North — Calumet Avenue |
Exits to north and south Calumet Avenue. Southbound U.S. 41 joins I-80/94 and U.S. 6 EB. Hammond and Munster |
| 2 |  U.S. Route 41 South  — Indiana State Road 152 North — Indianapolis Boulevard |
Exits to north and south Indianapolis Boulevard. Northbound U.S. 41 joins I-80/94 and U.S. 6 WB. Southern terminus of Indiana 152. Hammond and Highland Purdue University Calumet |
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| 3 | Kennedy Avenue | Visitors' Center | ||
| 5 |  Indiana State Road 912 — Cline Avenue |
East Chicago Gary/Chicago International Airport Boundary between Hammond and Gary; southbound to Griffith |
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| Gary | 6 | Burr Street | ||
| 9 | Grant Street | |||
| 10 |  Indiana State Road 53 — Broadway |
Indiana University Northwest | ||
| 11 |  Interstate 65 South — Indianapolis, Indiana |
Eastbound exit, westbound entrance | ||
| 12 | Interstate 65 — Indianapolis, Indiana, Toll Road |
Westbound exits to both directions of I-65. Eastbound exit to I-65 NB only. | ||
| Lake Station | 13 | Central Avenue | Eastbound exit, westbound entrance. | |
| 15 |      U.S. Route 6 East/Indiana State Road 51/To U.S. Route 20 — Ripley Street |
Westbound U.S. 6 joins with I-80/94 westbound. | ||
| 16 |   Interstate 80 East, Interstate 90 — Chicago, Ohio |
Westbound I-80 joins with I-94 westbound. Eastern terminus of the Borman Expressway, but I-94 continues east into Michigan. |
[edit] History
The expressway now known as the Borman was originally known as the Tri-State Highway, and through the Kingery Expressway, eventually linked with the Tri-State Tollway.[2] It was originally considered to be Indiana 420.[3] U.S. 6 diverged at Calumet Avenue south, and ran on Calumet Avenue and Ridge Road.
At various times, the expressway was extended from Indianapolis Boulevard to Burr Street, then to Georgia Street east of Broadway, and eventually to the Toll Road. Some time after the enactment of the Interstate Highway System, the expressway was designated as I-80, 90, and 294, and the I-94 designation was applied to the Toll Road west of where the current interchange with the Borman was eventually built. The expressways were renumbered around 1965, to avoid the implication that through drivers must change roads to stay on I-90 or I-94, resulting in the Borman becoming I-80, 94. U.S. 6 was extended to Ripley Street at that time, and I-294 was cut back to the Tri-State Tollway.
[edit] External resources
[edit] References
- ^ Indiana Department of Transportation. Frank Borman. Retrieved on March 18, 2007.
- ^ For a history of the Tri-State, see "Region's first free expressway built in "another time"", The Times of Northwest Indiana, April 1, 2007. Retrieved on April 3, 2007.
- ^ Calumet River Valley Photos:The Borman Expressway; Indiana Road Ends: Historic Indiana 420.
