{"id":232591,"date":"2026-03-23T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/232591\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:17:08","slug":"sinkhole-closes-modesto-highway-99-on-ramp-chp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/232591\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole closes Modesto Highway 99 on-ramp, CHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sinkhole that opened up along the side of a Modesto freeway on-ramp has the road closed for the time being. <\/p>\n<p>California Highway Patrol announced the closure Monday morning. The sinkhole is on the Highway 99 on-ramp from 4th Street. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">***SR-99 ON-RAMP FROM 4th STREET***<\/p>\n<p>There is a sinkhole on the on-ramp. The on-ramp will be closed for an extended period of time. No estimated time for re-opening. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GXhOevWkOU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/GXhOevWkOU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CHP Modesto (@chp_modesto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chp_modesto\/status\/2035943285722845672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what is causing the sinkhole, but the on-ramp will be closed for the time being as crews work on a fix. <\/p>\n<p>No estimated time of reopening has been given so far, CHP says. Drivers will have to detour around the closure by using the next on-ramp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sinkhole that opened up along the side of a Modesto freeway on-ramp has the road closed for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15563,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-232591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-modesto-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232591","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=232591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}