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Road Project Info Southern NV Rural Projects Hoover Dam Bypass
Completed and fully opened to traffic on October 19, 2010, this project replaced the narrow, steep, and curvy path of U.S. 93 on either side of and across Hoover Dam with a modern, 4-lane divided freeway. This improvement removes a major bottleneck for traffic between Las Vegas and Phoenix, as well as to and from many other points in Arizona, Nevada, and the rest of the Southwest. It also enhances the experience for those visiting the monumental engineering achievement which is Hoover Dam by having removed from atop the dam the heavy and ever-increasing volume of through traffic of U.S. 93.
The new route crosses the Colorado River about 1500 feet downstream from the historic dam on the recently completed Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, a spectacular $114 million composite concrete arch structure spanning Black Canyon. Linking the bridge to the existing U.S. 93 at either end are the $21.5 million Arizona approach (substantially completed in December 2004) and the $30.1 million Nevada approach (mostly finished in November 2005). Final pavement and signage, were completed in two separate $7 million phases. Dedicated on October 14, 2010, a separate public celebration called Bridging America was held for the general public on October 16, 2010, with around 15,000 people attending. The bypass was opened for traffic without any additional fanfare in the waning hours of October 19, 2010. For further details, please see the project's excellent website, which features many construction photos from throughout this endevour's long history.
Now that the bypass project is finished, there should be no more construction-related delays, other than for minor clean-up work. For through travelers on U.S. 93, Arizona has also upgraded the final remaining undivided section of that route north of I-40, between the bypass' Kingman Wash Road (Arizona) interchange and the boundary of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area just east of Householder Pass. This newly divided 15-mile section may still experience some occassional delays as post-construction work wraps up there.
The original route of U.S. 93 on the Nevada side, newly renamed as Hoover Dam Road, is now open for public use only as far as the entrance to the Dam's Visitors Center. Also, this road must be used to get to the new bridge's pedestrian walkway, which is accessed from a parking lot and separate Visitor Center located just east of the old route's milepost 1. On the Arizona side, the former surface route of U.S. 93 may now be restricted to Bureau of Reclamation traffic only between the Kingman Wash Road interchange and the dam (or it may still be partially open to the public - but only as far as the parking lots near the Arizona hairpin and spillway).
The post-2001 restrictions for commercial trucks and busses due to security concerns at Hoover Dam may now be lifted due to the opening of the bypass - check the web for more current information. The previous detour had one positive benefit - most all non-local truck traffic had been routed away from U.S. 93 through Boulder City, which is now the only non-divided and 2-lane section of that highway between Kingman, AZ and Las Vegas, NV. This had eased congestion significantly on U.S. 93 in Arizona between Kingman and the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. So as always, please be patient, alert, courteous, attentive, and safe when driving!
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Road Project Info Southern NV Rural Projects U.S. 95 Repave
| U.S. 95: Repave between Kyle Canyon Rd (Nevada S.R. 157) and Indian Springs: |
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Road Project Info Southern NV Rural Projects Boulder City Bypass
The Boulder City Bypass project will eventually result in a 4-lane divided highway route for U.S. 93 traffic bound for Hoover Dam and points beyond which will eliminate the need for through traffic to pass through densly developed areas of Boulder City. It will also "fill in the gap" between the end of I-515 (at the Foothills Drive overpass in Henderson) and the start point of the Hoover Dam Bypass near the Hacienda Hotel/Casino between Boulder City & Lake Mead.
While the route for this bypass has been selected, the current status of funding for the final design and construction of this project remains in flux. It was hoped that it could be completed by the time the Hoover Dam Bypass was opened, but sadly, this did not happen. According to a January 10, 2006 article in the Las Vegas Sun , a Nevada state transportation official has said it may be up to 20 years before this 14-mile freeway bypassing Boulder City can be completed. This is indeed bad news for the residents of that quiet city, especially since the interstate truck traffic that has not passed through the center of their town since late 2001 (when the security restrictions at Hoover Dam were implemented) may now be returning with a vengence since the new Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge on the HDB over Black Canyon and the Colorado River is now open.
The good news (as of September 2010) is that Phase 1 of this project, the rebuilding of the road from the Foothills grade separation through the junction of U.S. 93 and U.S. 95 (bypassing the Railroad Pass Hotel & Casino and its very dangerous entrance), appears now to be on the fast-track for funding by NDOT. Expect construction to begin sometime in 2011 and completion about two years later. See the project's website for details.
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Road Project Info Southern NV Metro Las Vegas Project List/MapNote: Not all road construction projects are included in this list, just the ones most likely to cause major delays on routes frequently used by area residents and visitors, especially those heading for Southern Nevada's legal brothels.
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