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Downtown Modesto featuring the skyline of the DoubleTree Hotel (left; the city's tallest building) and the Brenden Theatres (right) on 9th street. Downtown Modesto attractions. Downtown Modesto is the principal administrative area and historic townsite of Modesto, California. Measuring a square mile, it is bordered by Needham and Downey Streets ...
State Route 108 begins in downtown Modesto at the junction of SR 99 and SR 132, overlapping SR 132 northeast on L Street from 6th Street to 9th Street. There, it splits into a short one-way pair, with eastbound SR 108 turning southeast with SR 132 on 9th Street to K Street and then northeast to Needham Street; the westbound direction remains on L Street to Needham Street.
Compass Maps was a U.S. publisher of road maps. It was based in Modesto, California. It was founded in 1963 by Dick and Shirley Elke. They produced high quality maps of Northern and Southern California. They also did some maps of places in Nevada (Reno, Las Vegas), as well as Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2007, they had nearly 100 area maps that ...
Modesto's 10th Street c. 1890 Modesto in 1943. The City of Modesto was originally a stop on the railroad connecting Sacramento to Los Angeles, built by Central Pacific Railroad. [14] When Modesto was founded in 1870, the railroad company co-founder Mark Hopkins Jr. suggested to name it after his associate the banker William C. Ralston. Ralston ...
Originally, passengers in Modesto were served by streetcars over the short-line Modesto Interurban Railway from 1911 to 1917, operated intermittently first by the Tidewater Southern Railway; the Modesto and Empire Traction Company was founded on October 7, 1911, and began regularly scheduled passenger service between Modesto and Empire on November 1 of that year.
County Route J2 (CR J2), or I-580 Alternate, is a county highway that is made up of a series of streets and roads in Alameda and San Joaquin counties in the U.S. state of California. It runs from the Portola Avenue overpass at Interstate 580 in Livermore to State Route 4 near the community of Holt .
9th Street at J Street, Modesto, California: Coordinates: Owned by: City of Modesto: Line(s) UPRR Fresno Subdivision: Platforms: 1 (planned) Tracks: 2 (planned) Connections: Stanislaus Regional Transit Authority Greyhound Lines: Construction; Architectural style: Mission Revival
In 2009, 2.25 miles (3.62 km) of SR 219 were expanded to 4 lanes with a center median. As of November 2010, a study was underway to determine the feasibility of reconstructing the State Route 99/State Route 219 interchange to handle projected future demand.