{"id":273990,"date":"2026-04-18T09:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273990\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:11:15","slug":"sacramento-fix50-closure-shuts-hwy-99-to-hwy-50-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273990\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Fix50 closure shuts Hwy 99 to Hwy 50 connector"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Road<\/p>\n

A vital freeway connector in the heart of Sacramento will close for 15 hours Friday night as construction continues on the Fix50 project, according to Caltrans.<\/p>\n

The connector from northbound Highway 99 to eastbound Highway 50 is scheduled to shut down at 10 p.m. Friday and reopen at 1 p.m. Saturday, officials from Caltrans District 3 said.<\/p>\n

The work is part of the $511 million Highway 50 Multimodal Corridor Enhancement project<\/a>, which is adding carpool lanes and replacing aging pavement along Highway 50 from Interstate 5 to Watt Avenue.<\/p>\n

Motorists should plan ahead and expect delays in the area, Caltrans said.<\/p>\n

\"A A map of this weekend\u2019s closure of a connector on Highway 99 to Highway 50. Caltrans District 3 <\/p>\n

Here is the detour suggested by Caltrans officials:<\/p>\n

Take the Highway 99 connector to westbound Highway 50Exit at 16th Street (Exit 5)Continue to W StreetTurn left onto 15th StreetTurn left onto X StreetTake the 16th Street on-ramp to eastbound Highway 50<\/p>\n

The project is rehabilitating pavement and adding carpool lanes between Interstate 5 and Watt Avenue.<\/p>\n

The work zone speed limit is reduced to 55 mph, and the California Highway Patrol will be present for enforcement, Caltrans said.<\/p>\n

Another 15-hour connector closure is scheduled for April 24-25, officials said.<\/p>\n

Construction on the Fix50 project began in 2021 and is now expected to finish up this summer \u2014 about a year later than originally planned<\/a>, according to previous Sacramento Bee reporting. The project\u2019s cost has also increased significantly, rising by nearly $100 million from earlier estimates as work stretched into a fifth year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vital freeway connector in the heart of Sacramento will close for 15 hours Friday night as construction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-273990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273990","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=273990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}