{"id":355015,"date":"2026-06-10T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355015\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:14:12","slug":"major-roadwork-begins-on-hwy-41-in-madera-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355015\/","title":{"rendered":"Major roadwork begins on HWY 41 in Madera County"},"content":{"rendered":"

Construction has begun on a major project that will widen and improve Highway 41 in Madera County \u2014 a corridor with a growing population and a major route for millions of Yosemite National Park visitors each year.<\/p>\n

At a cost of $130 million, the Highway 41 Expressway Project is the \u201clargest transportation improvement project\u201d in the county\u2019s history, according to a Tuesday news release from the county. It will span more than four miles between Avenue 10 1\/2 and Avenue 15.<\/p>\n

The entire stretch will have four lanes when the project is finished. There will also be a new southbound bridge built over Avenue 11. New turn lanes will be added at Avenues 12 and 15, where traffic signals will be improved and modified.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe project is expected to reduce congestion, improve travel times, and accommodate future residential and commercial growth along the corridor,\u201d the news release says.<\/p>\n

The Highway 41 corridor in southeast Madera County has experienced a population boom in recent years because of the rise of the Riverstone and Tesoro Viejo master-planned communities, each of which has drawn thousands of new residents to the county over the past decade.<\/p>\n

Commercial opportunities<\/a> are also expected to grow along the highway. Riverstone, Tesoro Viejo and Valley Children\u2019s Hospital<\/a> all have commercial development plans for the corridor.<\/p>\n

County officials have been planning the highway\u2019s expansion for years. They previously told The Fresno Bee<\/a> the county is paying for the project with federal dollars, road impact fees charged to developers and property tax revenues generated by development at Riverstone and Tesoro Viejo.<\/p>\n

\"Traffic Traffic crosses through the Highway 41 and Avenue 12 intersection in Madera County on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Both Highway 41 and Avenue 12 will be going under major widening construction projects in the coming months and years. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com Madera County HWY 41 project timeline, new website for updates<\/p>\n

Construction will be phased and is expected to last until May 2028, according to the county\u2019s news release.<\/p>\n

The county also announced it has launched a website, 41expressway.com<\/a>, to provide updates about the project in real time.<\/p>\n

The website says no daytime lane closures are currently anticipated, but it\u2019s possible there will be short-term closures at Avenues 14, 14 1\/2 and 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdvance notice will be provided prior to any closures or traffic impacts,\u201d the site says. \u201cDetour routes and traffic control measures will be in place during active construction activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Construction Construction equipment is staged near the Stars and Stripes barn on Highway 41 at Avenue 12 in Madera County on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Construction has begun on a major project that will widen and improve Highway 41 spanning more than four miles between Avenue 10 1\/2 and Avenue 15. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com
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Erik Galicia<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n

Erik is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, where he helped launch an effort to better meet the news needs of Spanish-speaking immigrants. Before that, he served as editor-in-chief of his community college student newspaper, Riverside City College Viewpoints, where he covered the impacts of the Salton Sea\u2019s decline on its adjacent farm worker communities in the Southern California desert.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction has begun on a major project that will widen and improve Highway 41 in Madera County \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-355015","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\/355015","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=355015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}