Here’s all of the road work in Las Vegas in the week ahead
March 13, 2016 - 12:10 pm
Road Work Ahead
■ Lanes of Casino Center Boulevard will be disrupted for a wall removal at Lewis Avenue through Tuesday.
■ Utility pothole work is scheduled intermittently through Tuesday with work occurring from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cameron Street between Nevso Drive and Flamingo Road will be restricted on the east side of the road with traffic diverted to the west side. Southbound McLeod Drive’s right lane will be restricted from Palora Avenue to Schaffer Circle. The westbound right lane of Sunset Road will be restricted from the intersection of Montessouri Street to 500 feet east.
■ Lanes of Town Center Drive will be disrupted for concrete repair from Charleston Boulevard to Hillwood Drive through Wednesday.
■ Lanes of Hualapai Way will be disrupted for landscaping work between Town Center and Alta drives through Thursday.
■ Lanes of Elkhorn Road will be disrupted for a storm drain project between Fort Apache Road and Grand Canyon Drive through Saturday.
■ Lanes of Stewart Avenue will be disrupted for an expansion project at the Las Vegas Detention Center, from Spectrum Boulevard to Mojave Road through Sunday.
■ Tamarus Street will be closed at Reno Avenue and the center of Reno, both east and west of Tamarus, will be restricted to one lane through March 25 for sewer construction. One lane will be open for traffic along the south side of Reno with flagger assistance. Reno will be open against the curbs for eastbound and westbound traffic. Southbound Tamarus traffic will be detoured to Tropicana or Hacienda avenues. Northbound traffic will be detoured to Spencer Street, then back to Tropicana. Work will be from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
■ Lanes of Decatur Boulevard will be disrupted for manhole and pipe repair south of Sahara Avenue through April 2.
■ Wigwam Avenue will be closed at various locations from Bermuda Road to Las Vegas Boulevard through April 15 for a sewer line improvement project. Work will start at Bermuda and move west a block at a time through completion. Property access will be maintained throughout the project.
■ The Stephanie Street bridge over U.S. Highway 95 will be closed through mid-April for construction. Traffic will be blocked in both directions and detoured to Russell Road or Galleria Drive. Lanes will be shifted on U.S. 95 through mid-March.
■ Transit Route 109, the Maryland Parkway route, will be detoured because of road construction through April. Stops on George Crockett Road will not be served. Alternative stops are available on Routes 117 (Las Vegas Boulevard South and Silverado Ranch Road) and 217 (Warm Springs Road and downtown Henderson).
■ Sunset Road in Henderson will have periodic lane shifts and restrictions from Mountain Vista Street to Annie Oakley Drive through mid-July for major resurfacing improvements. Work will include widened bike lanes in each direction, signal improvements at Sunset and Athenian Drive and upgrades to existing sidewalk ramps and driveways. Most work will occur daily from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
■ The ramp connecting Sunset Road to the southbound Airport Connector is closed through fall. Traffic lanes and shoulders will be restricted on the Airport Connector between Interstate 215 and the airport tunnel through mid-2016 for the construction of a flyover lane from the southbound connector to the eastbound 215 Beltway.
■ Work will continue through the summer on a 13-mile paving project on Interstate 15 north of Mesquite. The project will run from the Nevada state line to the Virgin River Gorge and include improvements to the Littlefield bridge at milepost 8. Work will occur 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Mondays through Fridays. Work will begin on southbound lanes at the Littlefield exit.
■ Work is continuing through September on the installation of storm drains and relocating sewer lines, water lines and manhole covers, landscape removal and repairs and paving on Decatur Boulevard from Charleston Boulevard to Sahara Avenue. Sewer pipelines and manholes also will be rehabilitated on Oakey Boulevard between Rainbow and Martin L. King boulevards.
■ Work on the Regional Transportation Commission’s Flamingo Road Corridor Improvement Project will continue on the west side of Flamingo Road from Rainbow Boulevard to Hotel Rio Drive through fall.
■ Lanes of Main Street will be disrupted for general street improvements between Bonneville Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard through Dec. 1.
■ Traffic will be disrupted for projects on Racetrack Road and the area around Heritage Park in Henderson through December. Racetrack will be resurfaced from Boulder Highway to Athens Avenue, expanded to four lanes from Boulder Highway to Burkholder Boulevard and Burkholder to Athens, adding bicycle lanes, installing a traffic signal at Blue Lantern Lane and a traffic roundabout at Newport Drive as well as a vehicular bridge over a flood channel on Newport.
■ A road widening project will delay traffic on Volunteer Boulevard from Executive Airport Drive to Las Vegas Boulevard and Executive Airport Drive will be repaved from Volunteer to St. Rose Parkway.The project will run through February.
Gasoline prices
The average gasoline price Friday in the Las Vegas Valley was $2.14 per gallon. It was $2.15 in Nevada. The national average of $1.91 is up 10 cents from a week ago, up 21 cents from a month ago and down 54 cents from a year ago.