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2021–2024 · NICTD's own project record; station question as of November 2026
The surviving South Shore Line has had its great capital change, and it changed nothing for Lakeville except the strength of the line Lakeville does not have — which is the finding, with the open question stated as open. The Double Track Northwest Indiana project added a second track over the 26.6-mile segment between Gary and Michigan City: construction from 2021, a project cost of 649 million dollars in the district's own project record (trade carriers print 650 million; the figures stand unmerged), completion in May 2024, fourteen additional weekday trains from 14 May 2024, Michigan City street-running eliminated, and Chicago–Michigan City times cut by half an hour or more. Every mile of it lies in Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties, on the line's northern tier; the South Bend end of the railroad — the end nearest Lakeville — received no capital change in the project, and South Bend remains the eastern terminus as it has been since 1908. For this town the test's other half is the station question, and it is stated expressly as the checklist requires: Lakeville has never had a South Shore station, no station here has ever been proposed in any carrier reached, the line has never run south of South Bend, and whether any future southward service could ever be contemplated is an open question that no planning document reached takes up. The question stands open, printed as open, and nothing in Double Track closes it.