Community road work conditions for Tuesday, Nov. 5:
U.S. Highway 160 Eastbound/Westbound between Cortez and Towaoc (Milemarker 37-27).
Through November from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday there will be one lane alternating traffic for paving operations. Fifteen minute delays are possible.
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.
La Plata County has contracted with Four Corners Materials for road construction on Wildcat Canyon Road (County Road 141) from the intersection of D&RG Drive, south for a distance of 2.2 miles. The work will mill the existing asphalt, mix it with the gravel base, and pave the road surface with improved shoulders. Construction is expected to take eight weeks. Working hours will take place from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. During construction, traffic will be reduced to one lane while work is in progress. Delays of up to 20 minutes should be anticipated. For more information, call Aaron McKelvey at 382-6379, or email mckelveyar@co.laplata.co.us.
Colorado 184 eastbound/westbound between Dolores and Mancos (Milemarker 22-24).
Through November from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday there will be one lane alternating traffic for paving operations. Delays to 15 minutes possible.
U.S. Highway 160 eastbound/westbound in Durango (Milmarker 91-121).
Through November from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday there will be one lane alternating traffic for shoulder work and ditch cleaning. Fifteen minute delays are possible.
Colorado Highway 145 northbound/southbound in Cortez (Milemarker 1).
Through November from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday there will be one lane alternating traffic for irrigation pipe repairs. Fifteen minute delays are possible.
Colorado Highway 172 eastbound/westbound between the Florida River and Oxford north of Ignacio (Milemarker 16-19).
Through November from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday there will be one lane alternating traffic for paving operations in three locations. Ten minute delays are possible.
Motorists on U.S. Highway 550 (North Main Avenue) will encounter these work zones through mid-November:
Through Thursday CDOT will work on Junction Creek Bridge located south of 24th Street. Crews will replace a concrete deck panel on the northbound, left lane of the bridge south of Durango High School over Junction Creek. Today the left lane will be closed from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The left lane will remain closed from 9 a.m. Wednesday through 2 p.m. Thursday.
Atmos Energy will work on 18th Street through Friday. Atmos will remove a concrete panel in the southbound, right lane of the roadway to bore under Main Avenue to locate existing utility lines. Motorists on southbound North Main Avenue will encounter a closure of the right lane approaching 18th Street, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Friday.
The city of Durango is estimated to work between 31st and 32nd streets from Nov. 13 to 15. The city will make repairs to a water main under the northbound, right lane. Motorists will encounter a closure of the northbound right lane from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information, call 325-2244 or email SH145Telluride@publicinfoteam.com.
The city of Durango will close the street entrance to Folsom Park from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today to repair a broken sewer line in the roadway.
Additional repairs may extend the closure through Wednesday.
For more information, call 375-7381 or email rec@ci.durango.co.us.
