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The grade/elevation fight on this ground was fought in the open, at project size, and the newspaper of record preserved its whole shape. Joseph County hoped someday to build an overpass or underpass where McKinley Highway meets the tracks; and Mishawaka and the county wanted a Main Street underpass finished by about 2006, keyed to the new Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center on Douglas Road. The story ran with a May 1997 file photograph of cars and trucks lined up, possibly for miles, at the Indiana 23 crossing in Granger: the grievance was already five years photographed when the schedule was announced. The legal half of the row was then searched as the register directs — St. Joseph County commissioners' and court records as represented in open sources, the INDOT project record, and the Tribune archive — for a grade-separation petition, an appropriation fight, or a litigated case arising from this crossing. None was found: no case name, no petition, and no completion report for the scheduled 2007–2008 overpass appears in any source the searches returned. The build's own crossings article enumerates seven public crossings of the CN line, all at grade, and the crossing stands in the federal crossing inventory's world as what it has always been, a highway crossing a railroad at grade — the fight's paper trail is a schedule in a newspaper, not a file in a courthouse. The statute under which such a fight would have run is printed so the negative can be weighed: Indiana Code 8-6-3-1 puts 5 percent of a grade separation's cost on the railroad and 95 percent on the public side — the state on a state highway, the county off it.
South Bend Tribune, 2002, "Mishawaka, Granger seek end to rail headaches" (INDOT overpass at Indiana 23 scheduled 2007–2008; county McKinley aspiration; Mishawaka Main Street underpass by c. 2006; May 1997 file photograph of the backed-up Indiana 23 crossing), via the ProQuest newspaper record; Indiana Code 8-6-3-1 (grade-separation cost allocation: railroad 5 percent, public 95 percent); U.S. DOT / FRA National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory (the crossing carried as an at-grade crossing); searches run November 2026 of county court and commissioners' material in open sources and of the INDOT project record returned no petition, case, or completion report for this crossing.