Carson City area road report for week of Feb. 8-14

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Feb. 8-14, 2016: Utility work will continue Monday through Friday as indicated below, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with possible flagger controlled traffic at the following locations:

— Long Street will be closed to through traffic between Mountain and Division Streets Monday through Friday, weather permitting. In addition, the intersection of Long and Division Streets will be closed on Thursday and Friday.
— Division Street will be closed to through traffic between Fleischmann Way and Long Street Thursday and Friday, weather permitting.
— Mountain Street between Fleischmann Way and Long Street.
— Fleischmann Way between Mountain Street and Division Street.
— Sierra Circle, Hillside Way, Miller Way, Pine View Way, and Lane Circle.

Washington Street will be closed to through traffic between Minnesota and Phillips Streets, Monday through Friday, due to the construction of the East/West Water Transmission Project. There will also be flagger controlled traffic on Washington Street between Curry and Valley Streets and at the intersection of Washington and Phillips Streets. In addition, Curry Street will be closed between Washington and Robinson Streets.

Proctor Street will be closed to through traffic between Carson and Nevada Streets, Monday through Friday, during daytime hours due to utility work. In addition, there will be no parking available on Curry Street between Musser and Telegraph Streets during this time.

Race Track Road will be closed to through traffic between Bigelow Drive and Schulz Drive for the entire week.

There will be shoulder work at the following locations due to utility work:
— Iris Street between King and Fourth Streets.
— Ann Street between Minnesota and Division Streets.

For motorists, travel conditions should be better this week. The forecast call for warming temperatures and dry conditions with a slight chance of precipitation Friday, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.

The Bellevue Road bridge over Interstate 580 in Washoe Valley is temporarily closed to seismically retrofit and enhance the overpass. The Bellevue Road overpass and ramps will be closed for approximately three months for the road improvements, according to the Nevada Department of Transportation. Traffic wishing to take the bridge will be detoured via Alternate 395/Bowers Mansion Road to reach I-580. Interstate traffic will still be able to travel I-580 through Washoe Valley. Detours will be signed.

The bridge was first constructed in 1968, and is being renovated as part of NDOT’s continuing efforts to seismically retrofit older bridges for enhanced safety and stability during potential earthquakes. The bridge’s aging abutments and side panels will be repaired and replaced, and the roadway approaches to the bridge widened and repaved.

The bridge improvements are part of an NDOT project, begun last fall, to enhance I-580 through Washoe Valley. As part of the project, crews have repaved approximately seven miles of interstate surface through the valley, with remaining repaving to take place this summer. The project will also seismically retrofit and enhance the Eastlake Boulevard underpass and build an auxiliary merge lane from Alternative U.S. 395/Eastlake Boulevard to southbound I-580 in north Carson City.

The approximately $15 million project by Q & D Construction is scheduled to complete in the fall of 2016. Approximately 32,000 vehicles travel I-580 daily in the area.