High-Speed Rail construction site catches fire in Fresno<\/a><\/p>\nFive girders will be transported to the construction site each day and set on top of the structure. <\/p>\n
A total of 36 girders are needed to form the superstructure of the overpass. <\/p>\n
Some of the girders will span more than 150 feet and can weigh more than 165,000 pounds each.<\/p>\n
Construction on the Shaw Avenue overpass and grade separation project began last summer with the building of a bypass road to route traffic around the work area. <\/p>\n
Once complete, the overpass will eliminate the current at-grade railroad crossing, a change aimed at improving safety and east-west mobility for drivers and pedestrians.<\/p>\n
The overpass is designed to carry traffic over Golden State Boulevard, the Union Pacific Railroad, and future High-Speed Rail tracks. <\/p>\n
The structure is expected to span 457 feet long and 110 feet wide when finished.<\/p>\n
The Shaw Avenue project is one of nearly 30 active high-speed rail construction sites in the Central Valley between Madera and Kern counties. <\/p>\n
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The authority says 59 structures have been completed across the first 119 miles of the high-speed rail project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Work on the High-Speed Rail Shaw Avenue overpass in Fresno is moving into a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-247343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247343","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=247343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}