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APRIL 1998 · NOVEMBER 2004 · STATE ROAD 933
The refusal: Mishawaka's main street is a palimpsest — one pavement that has been, in succession, Second Street, the Lincoln Highway from 1913, Main Market Route 2, State Road 2 and US 33 — and its present number exists only because St. Joseph County would not take it. When INDOT removed US 33 north of US 20 in April 1998, the old road was to pass to local jurisdiction. Elkhart County's governments accepted theirs. St. Joseph County did not accept local control — and so the road the county refused became a state road again under a new number, State Road 933. The South Bend Tribune carried the change on 18 April 1998: "Portion of U.S. 33 is now Indiana 933." In 2004 INDOT tried to eliminate SR 933 and hand the road over again; the county again did not accept, and the designation remained — a second refusal, carried in the press record of November 2004. The junction sign at Main Street preserves the whole argument in one artifact: where SR 933 crosses Main, the sign names the cross street Old SR 331, the palimpsest signing itself. A state highway kept in being, twice, by the county's refusal to own it is a civic oddity with its paperwork in order, and the Corridors section prints the route record whole.
Sources: the Corridors section of this history — the Indiana route record for State Road 933 (Main Market Route 2, 1917; SR 2; US 33; the 1998 removal, Elkhart County's acceptance and St. Joseph County's refusal; the 2004 second attempt; the Main Street "Old SR 331" junction sign; INDOT's 2010 counts); South Bend Tribune, 18 April 1998; The Journal Gazette (Associated Press), 21 November 2004.