United Bridge Partners proposes to resolve the traffic congestion on Highway 37 decades before the state could fund the project by adding an elevated toll road. The proposal floated at the Business Journal’s Construction Conference, also aims at restoration of wetland areas surrounding the highway.

The new Cline Avenue Bridge enters its first phase of construction with the Mayor of East Chicago, Indiana breaking ground at the bridge headquarters building, which will also serve as operations and maintenance building for the bridge, when complete.