cross-townadj.adv.

1886 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 221 With cross-town tramcars running from side to side.

1894 Congress. Rec. 28 May 5413/1 I do not believe that on the L street, or, as it is called, this cross-town road, it is possible for a cable or electric motor to be successfully used.

1900 G. Bonner Hard-pan i. 10 Then he hastened his steps, and a few blocks farther on boarded a cross-town car.

1902 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 20 307 The payment of two fares..to go a short distance on cross-town lines.

1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) xv. 152 A cross-town street in the older central part of the city.

1948 T. Sharp Oxf. Replanned iv. 89 Two medieval streets which have also, in the absence of any other single cross-town route, to carry the whole of the cross-traffic of a city of 100,000 inhabitants.

1970 New Yorker 9 May 44/1 She gets on the crosstown bus alone.

1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) xvi. 165 The crowd in the gutter scattered, and the fine hansom dashed away 'cross-town.

1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 401 A regular old-fashioned horse-car going cross-town.