crosstown

[ kraws-toun, kros- ]

/ ˈkrɔsˌtaʊn, ˈkrɒs- /

situated or traveling in a direction extending across a town or city: a crosstown street; a crosstown bus.

in a direction extending across a town or city: The car sped crosstown.

Informal. a bus running primarily in a crosstown direction.

Origin of crosstown

First recorded in 1885–90; cross- + town

They pushed through the great station, they climbed the steps of the elevated track, they jingled on a cross-town car.

The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 |Various
As the bus, held up for a minute by the cross-town traffic, stopped, we could hear the pleasing burr of Harry Lauder.

Fifth Avenue |Arthur Bartlett Maurice
On completion, the western portions were turned over to the contractor for the cross-town tunnels for his exclusive use.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 |James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard
At five in the morning the cross-town streets are almost deserted.

Comrade Yetta |Albert Edwards

"It shall be as you wish," he said, leading the way out to the cross-town surface cars.

The Silent Bullet |Arthur B. Reeve

cross-town

US and Canadian going across or following a route across a town a cross-town bus