Chesterton, IN. The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) announced today that it received approval from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation to enter Project Development for its long anticipated project to double track the South Shore Line from Tennessee Street in Gary, Indiana, to the Michigan Blvd. in Michigan City, Indiana, a distance of approximately 25 miles.
You can find the full NICTD Strategic Business Plan here.
Last fall the NICTD Board of Trustees approved a pilot test of bikes on select weekend trains to debut in April 2016.