Construction Updates

Weeks of January 13 & January 20, 2025

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Global

Site Testing
  • Various testing activities throughout the eight-mile project area. No impact to vehicular traffic.

Hammond

Hammond Gateway Station Now Open!
Electrical Construction
  • Installing Overhead Catenary System in Hammond. No impact to vehicular traffic.
  • Installing power service at multiple locations in Hammond. No impact to vehicular traffic.
  • Installing Traction Power Substation in Hammond MSF Yard. No impact to vehicular traffic.

Station Construction
  • Contractor finishing elevator at Hammond Gateway Station.
  • Contractor finishing light fixtures/emergency telephones in South Hammond lot.

Munster

Electrical Construction
  • Installing Overhead Catenary System in Munster. No impact to vehicular traffic.
  • Installing power service at multiple locations in Munster. No impact to vehicular traffic.

Structure Work for Bridges, Elevated Structures, and Retaining Walls
  • Drive H-Pile and Sheeting for Main Street Underpass.
    • Trucking operations on Allison Road, minimal impacts to vehicular traffic.
    • Pile driving will be conducted outside of normal construction hours.
    • See construction notice.

Station Construction
  • Munster-Dyer East Platform Access
    • Setting of Roof and Canopy
    • Trucking operations on Allison Road, minimal impacts to vehicular traffic
  • Munster-Dyer West Access
    • Install Masonry Walls
    • Trucking operations on Allison Road, minimal impacts to vehicular traffic

Dyer

Structure Work for Bridges, Elevated Structures, and Retaining Walls
  • Drive H-Pile and Sheeting for Main Street Underpass.
    • Trucking operations on Allison Road, minimal impacts to vehicular traffic.
    • Pile driving will be conducted outside of normal construction hours.
    • See construction notice.

For additional information about work in your area, please contact 219.296.6004.

Environmental Commitments
NICTD has committed to specific mitigation measures that are intended to reduce the adverse effects of NICTD's West Lake Corridor Project. The information below summarizes the mitigation measures that the FTA and NICTD committed to in the 2018 Final Environmental Impact Statement / Record of Decision. View the progress and status of each environmental commitment.

Construction Notices