Community Road Work Conditions for Friday, Dec. 6.
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.
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. Highway 160 westbound at Yellow Jacket between Durango and Pagosa Springs (milemarker 115-116).
From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through today there will be one lane alternating traffic for asphalt repairs. Speed limit will be reduced to 40 mph through the work zone.
Colorado Highway 145 northbound/southbound on Lizard Head Pass (milemarker 57.6).
Through May 2014 24 hours a day there will be one lane alternating traffic with flaggers in the daytime and a traffic signal at night 24/7 for culvert replacement. Wide loads will not be permitted through the work zone. For more information, call (970) 209-3332.
The city of Durango Utilities Department will replace a water line on East Third Avenue, closing both southbound lanes.
Southbound traffic will be detoured at East Ninth Street during the road closure. Road construction and water line replacement will continue for the remainder of the week on the westbound lane of East Eighth Street, between East Third Avenue and East Second Avenue. The westbound parking and driving lane will be closed on East Eighth Street through today. Westbound traffic on East Eighth Street will be detoured, with only eastbound traffic permitted travel in the 200 block of East Eighth Street. Travelers are encouraged to use an alternate route.
