The Valley's Neglected Main Street
From March 2006
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Revving Renewal
By Anne Gonzales
Kirk Lindsey’s business sometimes sits idling in traf?c. The president of a San Joaquin Valley trucking company fumes when he thinks of the lost dollars puf?ng from his diesel trucks as they slow in congestion on Hwy. 99.
“It’s a torn-up highway with too many vehicles,” Lindsey mutters. “It’s horrible, and it just keeps getting worse.”
Hwy. 99 is one of Central California’s worst-kept secrets: a well-known, well-worn highway that commuters and businesses love to hate, even while relying on it for their sustenance.
When Hwy. 99 ?rst plowed through the fertile earth of California’s midsection in 1909, it brimmed with promises of over?owing harvests, golden business opportunities and economic prosperity for its neighbors. Nearly a century later, the tired strip more resembles a back alley than the Main Street of the San Joaquin Valley.
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