The SR 933 Pathway

Opened September 2020; the colleges' link

The gap, closed: The gap between the East Bank Trail and the LaSalle Trail was closed by the colleges. In September 2020 a new twelve-foot-wide pathway opened on the west side of Indiana 933 between Angela Boulevard and Douglas Road, about ten feet from the highway where it divides the University of Notre Dame from Holy Cross College and Saint Mary's College. The University of Notre Dame's own news account — the pathway was a collaboration among Notre Dame, Saint Mary's, Holy Cross, Holladay Properties, and the religious orders of the Holy Cross brothers, sisters, and priests — states what it did: it filled "a longstanding gap in the Indiana-Michigan River Valley Trail," running north from the East Bank Trail near 933 and Angela to the LaSalle Trail near Douglas and 933, and giving direct access, in the university's words, "to South Bend, Mishawaka, Niles and points in between." City engineering documents name the piece the SR 933 Trail. It is the segment that makes the system's north–south line continuous from Howard Park to the state line, and it was built not by a park department but by the institutions along it — the trail-building pattern of this corridor in its newest form.

Sources:

1. University of Notre Dame, Facilities Design and Operations / NDWorks news, 28 September 2020, "Newly opened pathway improves safety and mobility, expands regional trail network" (the opening, the width and course, the collaborators, the gap filled and the endpoints).
2. City of South Bend engineering documents for the Coal Line Trail Phase III (the "SR 933 Trail" name as the city uses it).