‘Dream highway’ seen as link in chain from Indiana to New York

(Fort Wayne) Journal Gazette

Sunday, January 22, 2006 6:58 AM

The final toll road link, a 16-mile segment in northwest Indiana, was opened in November 1956. Times of Northwest Indiana file photo

JAMES WENSITS, South Bend Tribune Political Writer

When the Indiana Toll road was conceived in 1956, it was touted as a super highway, a link in a chain of toll roads that would connect Indiana to Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.

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