PHOTO RELEASE: High-Speed Rail Completes Overcrossing in Kings County

June 26, 2024

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. – The California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) announced today the Flint Avenue overcrossing is now open to traffic in Kings County.

Located north of the city of Hanford and designed and constructed by Dragados-Flatiron Joint Venture to take traffic over the future high-speed rail tracks, the Flint Avenue overcrossing is the latest high-speed rail structure to be completed and opened to traffic in the Central Valley.

Flint Avenue overcrossing and grade separation by the numbers:

• 205 feet long
• 40 feet wide
• 663 cubic yards of concrete
• 215,720 pounds of steel

15 pre-cast concrete girders, all manufactured at the DFJV Pre-Cast Girder Facility in Hanford.

“Our contractors have been hard at work throughout the Valley these last few months, and their efforts are paying off. We are making headway at some of our largest structures and have several that are close to completion and will open to traffic this summer and throughout the year. This sets us up for the next phases of work like laying electrified tracks, building our stations, and testing our trains.” –Garth Fernandez, Central Valley Regional Director.

Construction progresses every day on the high-speed rail project between Madera and Tulare counties. The Authority has begun work to extend the 119 miles currently under construction to 171 miles of future electrified high-speed rail from Merced to Bakersfield.

There are currently more than 25 active construction sites in California’s Central Valley, with the Authority having also fully environmentally cleared 422 miles of the high-speed rail program from the Bay Area to Los Angeles County.

Since the start of high-speed rail construction, the project has created more than 13,500 good-paying construction jobs for residents, a majority going to residents of the Central Valley. Nearly 1,500 workers are dispatched to a high-speed rail construction site daily.

For the latest on high-speed rail construction, visit www.buildhsr.com.

The following link contains recent video, animations, photography, press center resources and latest renderings: https://hsra.app.box.com/s/vyvjv9hckwl1dk603ju15u07fdfir2q8

These files are all available for free use, courtesy of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.