Every four to five lines.



Nick Wolters Wrote:
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> Strolling southward across a prestressed concrete
> bridge spanning California State Route 4, Central
> California Traction 1501 is a split second from
> rejoining the street trackage on B Street in
> Stockton. Notably, the shared auto and rail
> corridor just north of the bridge stretches six
> hundred some-odd feet in length while the
> succeeding segment continues over several
> additional city blocks until arriving at the
> doorstep of BNSF Railway's Mormon Yard.
>
> The roadway necessitating the establishment of the
> aforementioned bridge served as a hot-button issue
> for the community for many years. Known to
> Stocktonians simply as the Crosstown Freeway, city
> leaders and developers as early as the 1960s
> envisioned the formation of a thoroughfare linking
> Interstate 5 and Highway 99 in town. By the early
> 1970s, the project was approved and construction
> began in haste until Governor Jerry Brown
> suspended the venture in 1975. The Crosstown was
> half-finished and was considered a monumental
> eyesore for the city, eventually earning the
> nickname, "the freeway to nowhere". Political
> circumstances enabled the project to commence once
> again in the latter half of the 1980s and
> attaining full completion by September 1993.
> Without significantly disrupting CCT operations,
> an overpass was built in 1992 to carry the
> railroad over the Crosstown Freeway. In the end,
> the roadway dramatically altered the appearance of
> Downtown Stockton.
>
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