Ben Maddox Way is one of the principal north-south

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s in

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. It was named for Benjamin Moyers Maddox (1859 Oct 18, Summerville, GA - 1948 Dec 04, Visalia, CA), editor-publisher of the Visalia Daily Times.

Overview

Running from Caldwell Avenue in South Visalia to St. Johns Parkway, just south of the

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in North Visalia, Ben Maddox Way is developed throughout most of its span, with four lanes in width in its entire length. The portions between Caldwell Avenue and Walnut Avenue, Huntington Court and

Goshen Avenue Goshen Avenue , also known as Murray Avenue, is one of the principal east–west arterial roads in Visalia, California, United States. It was named after the community of Goshen. The name has a biblical origin and generally has come to mean " ...

, and Houston Avenue and Buena Vista Avenue have a raised center median with Valley Oak trees planted in some parts of the median. From just south of Main Street to 1/3 of a mile south of Walnut Avenue, Ben Maddox Way runs parallel to the Southern Pacific tracks, which were once part of the

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. North of the St. John's River, the street becomes the two-lane Road 132, and runs north until it ends at California State Route 201. The entire Ben Maddox Way/Road 132 route connects neighborhoods in Southeast Visalia and East Downtown in

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with the city of Dinuba, and the communities of Cutler and Orosi. The Ben Maddox overcrossing project, which began in January 2010, is the largest project funded by stimulus funds in

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. It will take the overcrossing from four to eight lanes. It is one of the county's highest-volume intersections. The project is estimated to be completed in 2011.

Transportation

Routes 8A, 8B, and 9 of the Visalia Transit runs along Ben Maddox Way from the Visalia Transit Center in

."Visalia Transit Routes & Schedules,"
"Visalia Transit", 3 June 2010.

Districts and neighborhoods along Goshen Avenue (east to west)

*East Visalia *East Downtown *

Major intersections

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References

Streets in Visalia, California