Community Road Work Conditions for Wednesday, Nov. 20.
The city of Durango Community Development Department’s fall construction of the Downtown Sidewalk Improvement Project has resumed. Each side street will require approximately 2 weeks to complete. Construction will continue on the east side streets, moving south until reaching East 7th Street. At which point construction will begin on the west side streets then heading north. For more information, call 375-4850 or email gregg.boysen@durangogov.org.
Work is underway to improve the intersection of U.S. Highway 160 at Hurt Drive and Badger Road, located in the Aspen Springs subdivision area west of Pagosa Springs. Motorists will encounter single-lane alternating traffic and some travel delays on both U.S. 160 and the drives Monday through Friday during daylight hours. Some nighttime work is possible, and will be announced. Crews will suspend work for the winter likely in November and the project will resume in March with a completion date of late September 2014. For more information, call 731-2918.
A section of the U.S. 160/550 west-side frontage road will be closed for three months while Mercury Payment System’s contractor, Okland Construction, constructs an underpass beneath U.S. Highway 160/550 that will connect the La Posta Road on the west side with the new Mercury Village Drive on the east side. Through Dec. 9 the contractor will close the U.S. 160/550 west-side frontage road between West Turner Road and the entrance to the Durango Gun Club. West Turner Road will remain open, as will access to the Gun Club from the south. People wanting to get to the Gun Club can take River Road and travel north on La Posta. For more information, visit www.cotrip.org or call 511.
U.S. 160 eastbound/westbound over the Mancos River east of Mancos (Milemarker 55).
Through November from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Friday there will be one lane alternating traffic for bridge painting. Delays are possible.
The Colorado Department of Transportation has a single lane closed on U.S. Highway 550 on Bondad Hill that will continue into this week.
CDOT contractor Yenter Companies has been drilling rocks in preparation for blasting to remove a large outcrop. This lane closure has been in effect since Oct. 26, when a large rock came down onto the inside shoulder. It is anticipated that a single blasting operation will take place today or Thursday.
Traffic will be fully stopped in both directions for more than 30 minutes while blasting takes place and debris is cleared midday today or Thursday. Traffic delays are likely as debris is hauled away until 3 p.m. For more information, visit www.cotrip.org.
