Editing Merced, California (section)

==Transportation==
[[Image:Merced-OpenStreetMap.png|thumb|right|200px|Major highways near Merced]]

===Major highways===
*[[Image:California 59.svg|25px]] [[California State Route 59|State Route 59]]
*[[Image:California 99.svg|25px]] [[California State Route 99|State Route 99]]
*[[Image:California 140.svg|25px]] [[California State Route 140|State Route 140]]

===Air===
*[[Merced Regional Airport]] offers passenger service provided by [[Advanced Air]], offering daily flights to [[Las Vegas International Airport]] (LAS) and [[Hawthorne Municipal Airport (California)|Hawthorne Municipal Airport]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Merced Regional Airport |url=https://www.flymercedairport.com/ |access-date=March 17, 2022 |website=mercedairport |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Castle Airport]] in nearby [[Atwater, California]].

===Bus===
*[[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]], [[List of California cities with Aeroméxico bus service from Tijuana airport|Intercalifornias]], [[TUFESA]] and Fronteras del Norte serve Merced.
*[[YARTS]] provides scheduled service into [[Yosemite National Park]].
*[[Merced County Transit]], "The Bus", operates both regularly scheduled fixed route bus service and Dial-A-Ride (demand response) transportation services throughout Merced County.
*CatTracks<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cattracks.ucmerced.edu/|title=Home {{!}} CatTracks|website=cattracks.ucmerced.edu|language=en|access-date=July 16, 2018}}</ref> is [[University of California, Merced|UC Merced]]'s bus service, which connects students, staff and faculty at the university to off-campus apartments, the off-campus Castle facilities, local amenities, the Amtrak station, and the downtown area. CatTracks also has a live map.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Live Bus Map {{!}} Transportation and Parking Services |url=https://taps.ucmerced.edu/cattracks/map?_C1Blue_C1Gold_FastCat |access-date=March 10, 2022 |website=taps.ucmerced.edu |archive-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723212631/https://taps.ucmerced.edu/cattracks/map?_C1Blue_C1Gold_FastCat |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Rail===
[[San Joaquin (Amtrak)|Amtrak San Joaquins]] provides passenger service.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=am2Station&pagename=am%2Fam2Station%2FStation_Page&p=1237405732508&cid=1229726269596|title=Merced's Amtrak station|access-date=February 14, 2019}}</ref>
[[File:Cahsr map.svg|thumb|right|200px|Map of proposed route, also including the proposed [[Brightline West]] to [[Las Vegas]]]]

The [[Yosemite Valley Railroad]] ran from Merced between 1907 and 1945.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tracing the YVRR Today {{!}} Yosemite Valley Railroad |url=https://www.yosemitevalleyrr.com/prototype/tracing/ |website=www.yosemitevalleyrr.com}}</ref>

====High-speed rail====
{{update section|date=January 2021}}
The [[California High-Speed Rail]] Authority February 2016 draft business plan, outlined the Merced station as not beginning service at the same time as the initial [[San Jose, California|San Jose]] to [[Bakersfield, California|Bakersfield]] route in 2025, but would likely open in 2029 instead. This would make the leg between the Central Valley and [[Pacheco Pass]] the first to be constructed. The Merced City Council vigorously opposed the delay in their city's station opening, noting Merced's volume of commuters seeking high-speed rail to access jobs in Silicon Valley. In response, the April 2016 revisions to the business plan indeed included Merced in the initial construction segment, initially as a single-track spur connecting only to the westbound track to the Bay Area, with build out of the full Wye happening later.<ref>{{Cite web|title=California High-Speed Rail Officials Tinker With Plans|url=https://www.capradio.org/71501|access-date=January 20, 2022|website=www.capradio.org}}</ref> The system will run from San Francisco to the Los Angeles basin in under three hours at speeds capable of over 200 miles per hour.<ref>{{Cite web|title=High-Speed Rail in California|url=https://hsr.ca.gov/high-speed-rail-in-california/|access-date=January 20, 2022|website=California High Speed Rail|language=en}}</ref> In August 2022, the CAHSRA announced that it had received a $25,000,000 RAISE Grant to advance design work from Madera to Merced.<ref>{{Cite web |last=CAHSRA |title=News Release August 11, 2022 |url=https://hsr.ca.gov/2022/08/11/news-release-25-million-in-federal-funding-awarded-to-advance-high-speed-rail-in-california/}}</ref>

Sample trips in the California High Speed rail would include:
*Merced to [[Fresno, California|Fresno]] - 30 minutes
*Merced to [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]] – 43 minutes
*Merced to [[San Jose, California|San Jose]] – 45 minutes
*Merced to [[San Francisco]] – 1 hour and 15 minutes
*Merced to [[Los Angeles]] – 1 hour and 40 minutes
'''Altamont Corridor Express Extension'''

The [[Altamont Corridor Express|ACE]] regional rail system is pursuing an extension to Merced as a part of its broader Altamont Corridor Vision plan. The Final Environmental Impact Report for the Ceres-Merced extension was approved on December 3, 2021.