The accuracy of an environmental impact analysis of Caltrans’ Highway 99 interchange expansion in south Fresno came into question at a recent hearing of a lawsuit vying to stop the project.
The lawsuit filed by community advocate groups argues new interchanges would increase truck traffic pollution in neighborhoods already overburdened by poor air quality along Highway 99.
Fresno Judge Geoffrey Wilson last Friday heard arguments from attorneys both for and against the South Fresno State Route 99 Corridor project, which would reconstruct two interchanges on American Avenue and North Avenue. The interchanges would be converted from two to four or six lanes, thereby connecting Highway 99 to local roadways in the small communities of Calwa and Malaga just south of Fresno…