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https://www.nwitimes.com/news/michigan-city...90b27891d2.html

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MICHIGAN CITY — The city’s Redevelopment Commission is planning to spend up to $2.2 million to make projects done for the South Shore Line Double Track project more aesthetically pleasing.

“It’s the way the federal government works,” Planning Director Skyler York said. “If you want something to look better, you have to pay for it, because they’re going to use the base design.”

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The “betterments,” as they’re called, are meant to maintain the downtown’s character instead of introducing plain designs.

“Chain link fences and the like is not what we wanted,” commission attorney Alan Sirinek said.

Among the upgrades are special paving treatments at a string of intersections, a stain finish on a concrete traffic barrier and ornamental railing on that barrier, York said.

The upgrades are listed as alternatives in the bids the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District and the Regional Development Authority sought for the massive project intended to speed travel between Michigan City and Chicago, putting the two cities within easy commuting distance.

“We have committed to provide an additional sum of money to make those improvements look better,” York said.
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