Editing Fresno, California (section)

===Highways===
[[File:Cal State Route 41.jpg|thumb|The interchange between State Routes 41 and 180 in Downtown Fresno]]
Fresno is served by [[California State Route 99|State Route 99]], the main north–south freeway that connects the major population centers of California's Central Valley. [[California State Route 168|State Route 168]], the Sierra Freeway, heads east to the city of [[Clovis, California|Clovis]] and [[Huntington Lake]]. [[California State Route 41|State Route 41]] (Yosemite Freeway/Eisenhower Freeway) comes into Fresno from [[Atascadero]] in the south, and then heads north to [[Yosemite National Park]]. [[California State Route 180|State Route 180]] (Kings Canyon Freeway) comes from the west via [[Mendota, California|Mendota]], and then east through the city of [[Reedley, California|Reedley]] to [[Kings Canyon National Park]].

Fresno is the most populous U.S. city not directly linked to an [[Interstate highway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |title=U.S. Census website |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref> When the Interstate Highway System was created in the 1950s, the decision was made to build what is now [[Interstate 5 (California)|Interstate 5]] on the west side of the Central Valley, and thus bypass many of the population centers in the region, instead of upgrading what is now State Route 99.<ref>[http://www.cahighways.org/001-008.html#005|California Highways-Routes 1-8] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120105136/http://cahighways.org/001-008.html#005%7CCalifornia |date=November 20, 2010}}. California Highways. Accessed January 1, 2011</ref> Due to rapidly rising population and traffic in cities along SR 99, as well as the desirability of Federal funding, much discussion has been made to upgrade it to interstate standards and eventually incorporate it into the interstate system, most likely as [[List of future Interstate Highways#Interstate 7 or 9|Interstate 7 or 9]]. Major improvements to signage, lane width, median separation, vertical clearance, and other concerns are currently underway.