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Hammond gets grant to expand bike trail

July 27, 2005

Post-Tribune staff report

HAMMOND — The city is getting a state grant to expand its bike trail 
network.

The Indiana Department of Transportation announced this week that 
Hammond will get $570,600 to design and build a phase of the Grand 
Calumet River trail.

Eventually, the trail will run from the Illinois border at Wolf Lake to 
the East Chicago boundary near the Grand Calumet River.

Mayor Tom McDermott Jr. is pleased. “I’m a bike rider myself,” he said. 
“We want to be part of the bike trail system.”

This is the second of six phases to be funded, City Engineer Stan 
Dostatni said. It will run along the 129th Street right-of-way from the 
state line to Sheffield Avenue, then along — but separate from — 
Sheffield to a NIPSCO right-of-way south of the Indiana Toll Road.

When all the trail segments are completed, Dostatni said, they’ll 
connect all the bodies of water in Hammond, from Lake Michigan to the 
Little Calumet River.

“It’ll be kind of neat when it’s all in place,” he said.

The city will provide 20 percent of the project’s cost.

Hammond’s is among $17.5 million in grants awarded this week to 29 
communities.

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