State Road 152 in the
U.S. State
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of
Indiana
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is a short connector highway in northwest Indiana.
Route description
SR 152 serves as a connector route through
Hammond between
US 41 and
US 20, traveling entirely along Indianapolis Boulevard. The route begins at a
combination interchange
In the field of road transport, an interchange (American English) or a grade-separated junction (British English) is a road junction that uses grade separations to allow for the movement of traffic between two or more roadways or highways, usi ...
with
I-80
Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one o ...
/
I-94/
US 6/US 41 (Borman Expressway). After US 41 turns west onto the expressway from Indianapolis Boulevard, the roadway continues north in a straight direction, now carrying SR 152. North of the interchange, SR 152 serves the
Purdue University Northwest
Purdue University Northwest (PNW) is a public university with two campuses in Northwest Indiana, one in Hammond and another in Westville. It is part of the Purdue University system and offers more than 70 undergraduate and graduate degree p ...
(Hammond campus). North of
165th Street, the route begins to transition into an industrial area. The route first encounters a
railroad crossing
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and then crosses above a railyard as a four-lane overpass. Shortly after the road descends to street level, SR 152 ends at an intersection with US 20 (Michigan Street). The roadway still continues north as part of US 20.
History
SR 152 was once part of
US 152 until that highway's
decommissioning
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Infrastructure
* Decommissioned offshore
* Decommissioned highway
* Greenfield status of former industrial sites
* Nuclear decommi ...
in 1938. The rest of US 152 is now
US 52,
US 231, and
US 41.
Major intersections
References
152
Northwest Indiana
Transportation in Lake County, Indiana
Hammond, Indiana
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