{"id":222383,"date":"2026-03-16T17:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222383\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:58:10","slug":"rail-news-california-authority-completes-fresno-high-speed-rail-separation-project-for-railroad-career-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222383\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail News &#8211; California authority completes Fresno high-speed rail separation project. For Railroad Career Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiverailroading.com\/news\/\" class=\"catBack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rail News Home<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"catBack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiverailroading.com\/high_speed_rail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High-Speed Rail<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"viewRt\" style=\"float: right;\">3\/16\/2026<\/p>\n<p>Rail News: High-Speed Rail&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>         span {<br \/>\n                min-width: 0 !important<br \/>\n            }<br \/>\n        ]]]]>]]><\/p>\n<p>        <br class=\"clear\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cesar-chaves-sized.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"articleImg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            The Cesar Chavez Boulevard underpass is the 59th structure completed for the Central Valley segment of the planned high-speed passenger-rail line.<br \/>\n            Photo \u2013 California High-Speed Rail Authority<\/p>\n<p>            <br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hsr.ca.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California High-Speed Rail Authority<\/a> (CHSRA) last week announced the completion of the Cesar Chavez Boulevard underpass grade separation, opening the road to motor vehicle and pedestrian traffic between downtown Fresno, California, and the city&#8217;s Chinatown neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The grade separation accommodates two lanes of motor vehicle traffic in each direction, bike lanes and protected walkways underneath current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.up.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Union Pacific Railroad<\/a> and future high-speed rail tracks, said CHSRA officials in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The completion of the Cesar Chavez Boulevard underpass restores a vital connection between southwest Fresno and downtown along one of Fresno\u2019s major east-west arterial roads, improving traffic flow and accessibility to local businesses,&#8221; said Miguel Arias, Fresno city council vice president.<\/p>\n<p>The underpass brings the total number of high-speed rail structures completed in the CHSRA&#8217;s Central Valley segment to 59, they added. It is also the first structure completed in 2026. The crossing is located less than a mile from the future CHSRA Fresno Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail News Home High-Speed Rail 3\/16\/2026 Rail News: High-Speed Rail&#13; span { min-width: 0 !important } ]]]]&gt;]]&gt; The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-222383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}