More than three decades have passed since the John T. Knox Freeway replaced a treacherous four-lane highway stretching from Interstate 80 near Golden Gate Fields west to the Richmond-San Rafael Bri…
More than three decades have passed since the John T. Knox Freeway replaced a treacherous four-lane highway stretching from Interstate 80 near Golden Gate Fields west to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.
But Nat Bates, who served on the Richmond City Council at the time, says the person who really deserves credit for the highway has never gotten his rightful due. Now, at 91, Bates has kicked off a community effort to recognize the man who first got the project off the ground nearly half a century ago: former President Jimmy Carter.
Former Richmond Councilmember Nat Bates meets then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter on the campaign trail ahead of the 1976 election. In 1977, Brown helped arrange several meetings with leaders from Congress, the Department of Transportation and other White House staff. Bates, Knox and John Foran — a longtime California state legislator from San Francisco — were invited to the U.S. Capitol to make their case to on Interstate 580.
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