Community Road Work Conditions for Monday, Nov. 25.
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 remain in place until a large boulder can be blasted and removed from the hillside, which is anticipated to take place today, weather permitting. Today midday, weather permitting, traffic will be fully stopped in both directions for more than 30 minutes while blasting takes place, debris is cleared and the work area is cleared for safety. Delays will continue while traffic queues are cleared in both directions. Until 3 p.m. following blasting, there is likely to be traffic delays as more debris is hauled away. CDOT will update this schedule at www.cotrip.org and post approximate blast time on message boards the morning of.
La Plata County Road and Bridge crews will replace a cross-culvert under County Road 509 which will require the 1300 block to be closed to through traffic from today to Wednesday. Work is expected to be completed by the Thanksgiving holiday. This section is located 1.8 miles south of the intersection with County Road 520, and .6 miles north of the intersection with County Road 509A. Motorists are advised to use these alternate routes: Southbound traffic from the Bayfield area to the Ignacio area, use either County Roads 516 or 521; and northbound traffic from the Ignacio area to the Bayfield area, use either County Roads 516 or 521. For more information, call Doyle Villers 382-6414 or email villersde@co.laplata.co.us.
