Photo via CAHSRA Crews working on the Cedar Viaduct arches this week. The under-construction arches (shown below) are on the darker portion of the deck – where it crosses Highway 99. Aerial photo showing the more than half-mile-long Cedar Viaduct earlier this year. Cedar will have similar arches as the San Joaquin River Viaduct (though Cedar will have two pairs), again serving as a landmark for folks entering Fresno. The 3,700-foot bridge will carry trains over the 99 as well as North and Cedar Avenues. The Cedar Viaduct is located at the southeastern edge of the city of Fresno – along and over Highway 99. Freight rail will continue to run on current tracks under the pergola. Photo via CAHSRA Aerial photo showing San Joaquin River Viaduct pergola. San Joaquin River Viaduct pergola structure. The 4,700-foot long San Joaquin River Viaduct will allow high-speed trains to cross the river and (via a pergola – a sort of elevated cross-beam structure) cross the Union Pacific tracks parallel to State Route 99. Top deck of the San Joaquin River Viaduct where tracks will be located soon. From this view (looking southeast – towards Fresno), Highway 99 is behind the freight rail bridge. The San Joaquin River Viaduct The new viaduct runs parallel to existing Union Pacific freight rail. The new bridge features iconic arches that serve as a visual landmark for folks entering Fresno via the 99. Located along Highway 99 at the northwest edge of the city of Fresno, the San Joaquin River Viaduct appears nearly complete. This zero emissions travel mode is needed to combat the global climate crisis, which is contributing to California’s worsening wildfires. The Central Valley segment offers much-needed benefits for communities with some of the highest asthma rates and worst air quality in the nation. The smoke didn’t make for the greatest photos, but was a stark reminder of why California needs to finish and extend this project. The skies above Fresno were smoky from forest fires burning nearby. Map of Fresno County High-Speed Rail facilities that Streetsblog toured
Rails and electrical catenary will be added in the near future. Construction is nearing completion on these structures, though their top surfaces currently look like smooth concrete roadways. From north to south, these were: the San Joaquin River Viaduct, the Cedar Viaduct, and the Conejo Viaduct. This week’s tour focused on three large-scale structures in Fresno County. Construction is not quite continuous but interspersed it is focused on the many stretches where trains must run above or below ground level – as well as places where streets have been elevated to travel over the future tracks. Construction is already underway on 119 miles of this – essentially from Madera to Bakersfield. The initial phase of the system – California’s high-speed backbone – will run 171 miles between Merced and Bakersfield. Construction is underway on the Central Valley Segment, shown in Orange Streetsblog has long reported on the plans, prospects, and political machinations around the state’s largest infrastructure project – now it was time for a fresh look at the structures that will carry the state’s bullet trains.Īs many Streetsblog readers know, the California High-Speed Rail Authority currently has more than a hundred miles under construction in California’s Central Valley and has contributed hundreds of millions to supporting transit projects in the northern and southern ends of the state. Streetsblog’s San Francisco and Los Angeles editors took a tour of some California High-Speed Rail construction earlier this week.
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