From Strongdar on Reddit: In that context, crisscross would tell you that it crosses the street repeatedly, in a back and forth sort of manner. Cross would just mean it goes over the street once.

• The ice on the river was smooth and transparent, not crisscrossed with the white etchings of skaters' tracks. crisscross2, criss-cross noun [ countable] a pattern made up of a lot of straight lines that cross each other → zigzag Inside the box was a crisscross of wires. —crisscross adjective a crisscross pattern of streets Origin crisscross2 (1600-1700) christcross “sign of Christ's cross” ((15-19 centuries))

Criss-cross, with various spellings, continued to be used as the name of the character in English but from the 17th century onward it was also used as a generic term for any crossing lines.