Anybody remember traveling I-94 before this "missing link" was completed and having to exit/get back on the expressway at U.S. 421 in Michigan City or having to exit/get back on the expressway at Ripley St. in what was then called East Gary (The City of East Gary, Indiana was renamed Lake Station in 1977.)
I stopped in at the T/A travel center in Porter at U.S. 20 and I-94 a while back and they had a mural painted on the wall of a historical time line documenting our area highways. U.S. 12 was completed in 1925, U.S. 20 was completed in 1931 and the Indiana Toll Road was completed in 1956.
I can remember when I was a young child growning up in Portage and I could hear the jack hammers and construction vehicles from my front yard building the missing link.
My dad worked in Gary and had to take I-94 to/from Grant St. and was elated when he didn't have to go to/from Ripley St. in Lake Station to catch the expressway anymore.
I found this scan from the 1970-1971 road map, before the missing link was finished eastbouund I-94 terminated at Burns Harbor and westbound I-94 terminated at exit 1 in New Buffalo:
I found this scan from the 1970-1971 road map, before the missing link was finished eastbouund I-94 terminated at highway 249 in Portage and westbound I-94 terminated at exit 1 La Porte Road in New Buffalo:
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