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IMPROVING CONNECTIONS

The State Route 4 Crosstown Freeway Ramp Stage 2 will construct Navy Drive’s widening and stage
Extension Project broke ground this year and the Port 3 will remove the ramps on Fresno Avenue and make
and surrounding neighborhoods will gain new and improvements to Tillie Lewis Drive and the signals at
improved accessibility. In 2017, the San Joaquin Charter Way.
Council of Governments along with Caltrans and their
partner agencies, the City of Stockton and County of The work conducted to date has run smoothly
San Joaquin, will collectively deliver the $140.4 million including pile and column installation for the
project to the region. This critical highway project is viaduct structure, which will continue through early
just one of many freeway and interstate projects that 2015. The work on the piles and columns will prepare
aim to improve mobility throughout the Central Valley. Caltrans for installation of the “super" girders that will
be used for the elevated bridge structure.
The project will improve the connection between
Interstate 5, the Crosstown Freeway, the Port and the Location plays a critical role in the success of the Port
adjacent industrial areas around the Port. The project of Stockton. This extension project, along with the
will pull the existing truck tra c that currently serves other infrastructure improvements being implemented
the Port and local industrial areas o neighborhood on the surrounding freeways will aid in the Port’s
roads in the nearby Boggs Tract community. The ability to attract and sustain new and existing
Crosstown Freeway will be extended west over businesses. Having direct access from major freeways
Fresno Avenue to Navy Drive on twin viaduct to the Port via the Crosstown extension will ensure
structures. The project will also include converting continued e ciency in the movement of goods and
Navy Drive to a four-lane facility with auxiliary lanes commodities within the region. To keep up with the
and a partial interchange. latest on this important project as well as other critical
highway improvements happening in the region, visit
Construction kicked o in July 2014, and is slated for the new SJ Highway Matters Facebook page at:
completion by the end of 2016. However, e orts made facebook.com/SJHighwayMatters.
by both Caltrans and the construction contractor to
get utilities moved may allow for the project to be
completed earlier. In order to minimize impacts and
maintain tra c movement for local and regional
travelers and keep neighbors like the Port in business,
construction is being completed in three stages.
Stage 1 consists of constructing the bridge extension JUAN VILLANUEVA
over the BNSF railway and the ramp terminal. Projects and Contracts Administration Manager/DBELO

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