Community road work conditions for Wednesday, Oct. 16:
U.S. Highway 160 Eastbound/Westbound between Cortez and Towaoc (Milemarker 37-27).
Through October 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.
The Colorado Department of Transportation project to replace a corroded steel culvert under U.S. Highway 491 located north of Cortez will run through mid-October. Work hours will take place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and one lane will be open at all times. Speed will be reduced from 65 to 40 mph. Motorists will encounter single-lane, alternating traffic near Mile Post 57, 24/7, likely directed by flaggers during the day and a signal at night, until the highway cut is closed. Then motorists can expect daytime single-lane, alternating traffic through the project’s completion in October. For more information, email hwy145telluride@gmail.com or call (970) 209-3332.
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.
