Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / November 2007
Roadside notes from Stockton, Calif., USA
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Carl Rogers - 26 Nov 2007 08:07 GMT Hi Viatologists,
Past, present and future, Stockton has much to discuss in terms of State Route 4 (CA-4). Empirically speaking, CA-4 enjoys two separate and distinct routings in town:
(1) Most people know the CA-4 Freeway that connects Interstate 5 to State Route 99 (CA-99).
(2) What most people don't know is CA-4's redundant signage along its original alignment, Charter Way. If you travel along westbound Charter Way, away from CA-99, there is reflectorised green signage at the Mariposa Road intersection. The new signage shows a CA-4 (shield) leading west onto Charter Way. A lefthand (i.e., eastbound) turn places you along Mariposa Road. The signage at Charter/Mariposa seems to be placed for the convenience of local motorists heading in and out of town. (In modern times, Route 4 undisputedly follows Charter Way to the west of Interstate 5. Mariposa Street leads towards undisputed State Route 4 to the east of CA-99.)
Switching gears, sort of:
In the western outskirts of town, Daggett Road has been renamed the "Port of Stockton Expressway". The expressway, which intersects and terminates at CA-4, enjoys a northerly jog onto Rough & Ready Island via a new four-laned divided bridge. From there, traffic can bear east towards Navy Street.
So what else is new? A new four-lane expressway is being constructed, from scratch, west of the Navy Drive/West Washington Street intersection. Speculation-wise, it seems Route 4 may one day annex one, or both, of the aforementioned expressways. If an annexation were to take place, the Route 4 Freeway could transition into--and overlay--Washington Street towards the unconstructed expressway and the existing Port of Stockton Expressway.
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Cheers,
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Jason Pawloski - 26 Nov 2007 18:54 GMT > Hi Viatologists, > > Past, present and future, Stockton has much to discuss in terms of State > Route 4 (CA-4). <snip>
Holy sh.t
Big Daddy B-Rock - 26 Nov 2007 20:09 GMT If it's not being constructed by Caltrans, they are not inclined to accept the route. If it's a bypass, such as in Brentwood, then maybe, otherwise, it is not likely at all.
EAST COAST HIVE MIND - 27 Nov 2007 00:07 GMT > Hi Viatologists, > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > towards the unconstructed expressway and the existing Port of Stockton > Expressway. Translated into English.
There is a new trailblazer(or directional sign) for CA 4 west at the junction of Mariposa Road and Charter Way-Old CA 4. CA 4 joins Charter way after the Interstate 5 junction(j471)-west of Stockton. The purpose of the new signage may be to help direct people to CA 4 west of town. In the City of Stockton, CA 4 is posted on a freeway(the Ort Luftus Freeway) extending from Interstate 5(at j472) east to CA 99; CA 4 runs concurrent with CA 99 south of that junction(j254A) and leaves CA 99 and continues east at the Farmington Road junction(j252B). You can also use Mariposa Road to get to CA 4 East.
Daggett Road west of Stockton has been renamed the 'Port of Stockton Expressway', and a new 4 lane bridge has been built to connect it to Rough and Ready Island. Daggett Road was discontinuous before the bridge was built. Another section of expressway is being built west of the Navy Drive/West Washington Street junction. Maybe one day one or both sections of expressway will be incorporated into CA 4. It would be easy to link the existing freeway into the West Washington Street expressway project.
Same information-and about 6 or 7 items not mentioned by CalQaeda. And hopefully a bit more clarity.
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EAST COAST HIVE MIND - 28 Nov 2007 01:49 GMT Hai, Vitameinerologists.
Hey, road dudes of both genders, I'd like to take a little time out here and be perfectly frank. That's hard for me since I'm Carl. Oh, god, I've obfuscated myself again. I'm like the Shadow, but rather than clouding men's(of both genders) minds, I only seem to cloud my own. Where was I? Is there a cookie? Damn! I wish it was time for my cookie.
Gotta focus. Right. I'm going to tell you all the truth about my current situation here. That's right. The Truth, from me. Don't blink, or you'll miss it. It's not all tea and crumpets around the CalQaeda Empire, these days, lemme tell you. But I has a picture of a Highway Shield and that makes me feel almost as good as a cookie. I still wish it was time for my cookie.
Anyway, it's an M1 Shield from Merrie olde England, home of tea and crumpets. Did you know they call cookies 'biscuts' over there? No kidding. I asked Sharleena for a biscut once, thinking I'd get a cookie, Instead, I got something that resembled a light beige and off-white hockey puck. I broke a tooth on that sucker, and it tasted like gypsum drywall. Sharleena mocked my howls of pain, and took me to the mean dentist who hits me in the face with a hammer to anesthetise me. That also knocked out the broken tooth. Sharleena says he's a real dentist, but I have my doubts.
Anyway. Focus! Yes. I got this picture of the M1 Sheild from the MI5 Persecution guy, who says it's proof positive that the streetlights and arrangements of the cats-eyes at the M1 Nottingham Junction are a means of mocking him on alternate Sundays in months with an 'R' in them; all Sundays in months without 'R''s on Shrove Tuesday *and* Wimbledon fortnight, but only if and when a Scotsman from the Podgorny Kiltmaking Clan is present, enquiring after a Blancmange. I don't know what that means and it gives me a headache just thinking about it. I suggested he try some of my medication, he was up for it, and sent some of his rather interesting medication along in return. I like it cos it makes the room all bendy and I can be like a rubber man.
But that's small reassurance in a world gone all wrong for me. Dad is pissed that I maxed out his Amex buying up sines so I could start up my own Federal Highway Systems in Malawi and Burkino Faso; as well as dumping a few dollars into an exciting extension that will link California 4 to a motorway in project running from the Capitol of Mali to the Capitol of Niger via Burkino Faso. Those places have funny names and I can't spell them. Dad was really mad: he says 'those poor bastards there don't have any goddam cars, you f.cking moron! They save all year so they can buy a goddam sharp stick!' Then he hit me in the face with a hammer. I didn't know Dad was a Dentist too.
It gets worse. Somehow Eric Lazonga(you remember Eric, don't you?) and my MaltePoo Schnitzer got into a case of beer, got royally pissed and thereupon proceeded to devour the entire contents of Sharleena's underwear drawer. They ate every set of knickers she had, and it was all that expensive Victoria's Secret stuff that makes my tummy feel funny when I look in the drawer when nobody's home. Anyway, I didn't have the Amex, so I snatched Sharleena's Visa when she wasn't looking. She was talking to a man about a dog. I don't know.
It was pretty grim. Both Eric and Schnitzer were full of cheap beer and expensive knickers, and I thought they would burst. It didn't help when I got to the vet, either. I was told I would have to pay extra for Eric(you remember him, right? Nice chap), as they classed him as an exotic and/or endangered species and his shots were due. Schnitzer fared no better, while waiting for the vet to fix Eric, the office girls flung him about like he was the orb for my least favourite pigskin-based sport. I cringed when they spiked him for the touchdown. Well to make a long story short(not something I often do, make a note of it), after removing 348 pairs of Macerated Knickers from my pets, the vet declared them good as new, and sent us away. He also decided his Rottwielers needed exercise just then, so he had them escort us to the car park. It was a rather brisk sprint. He kept Sharleena's Visa. I don't think he was a *real* vet. He laughed heartily as we ran.
Well that was all sorted out, but then I realised that Sharleena had no knickers left. She'd forgot to wear them that day. She said she had a fancy dress party and was going as Britney Spears. Whatever. I stopped at K-Mart on the way home and quickly picked up a couple of packages that were made by the fine Chinese Company of Wang Hu's Second Factory-they were $1.99 a package, dead cheap- and just the amount of change that Eric and I had managed to lay hands on after combing the car a couple of times, and squeezing Schnitzer just right(he'd swallowed 55 cents in the Vet's car park); and secreted these in her underwear drawer, hoping she wouldn't notice. Well, I didn't have that kind of luck. She literally exploded when she found her new undergarments. In retrospect, I may have had more success in my subterfuge had I removed them from the packages first. Live and learn. I also discovered that I had misread the label-it wasn't 'Second Factory', rather it was 'Factory Second'(the last 's' having been left off for 'Savings'); and it was fimsy cheesy 'days of the week' knickers-but it didn't have all the days of the week, only five Sundays and two Tuesdays.
So that's where I'm at, now, friends, in a hell of a pickle. I need all of you to click all of my pages as many times as possible, as soon as possible, as I need to get that Google Ad Revenue flowing. Buy my books, too. If I can get them on the New York Times best-seller list for even a week, It will help. If I don't come up with some cash sometime soon, I may have to get a real job or join the Army. Plus, the sooner I come up with the cash, the sooner Sharleena will let me, Schnitzer and Eric back in the house. I try now, but she shoots at me. Thank god she can't hit the broad side of the barn. But she did take out the postman and a couple of the neighbour's cats, and I have to pay for *that* too.
It's been rough with me, Eric and Schnitzer tyring to share a a threadbare blanket in the kennels, and since the beer and knickers incident, Eric seems to have developed a flatulence problem, and the resultant emissions smell like third hand Alpo, burnt rubber and Sharleena's Knickers. All of which makes me very sad as I shiver on the concrete floor, waiting for when it's time for my cookie.
Cheers
Carl Rogers ---- Yaddda Yaddad Yadda Websight thingy. I don't need to type it, I've been up yr arse with it for so long, you all prolly have nightmares about it. Click, don't think, and we'll all be better off.
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