Carson City area road report for week of June 12-18

UPDATE MONDAY 5:40AM: A late spring storm blasted the Sierra with snow this morning, forcing chain or snow tire requirements over Highway 50 Spooner, State Route 207 over Kingsbury Grade, State Route 431 over Mt. Rose Highway and I-80 over Donner Pass. Go here for an update on area road conditions related to the storm. The National Weather Service forecast calls for the skies to be clearing by tonight with a gradual warming trend this week.
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Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of June 12-18, 2017: Road closures are expected at the following locations due to road/utility work and the Epic Rides event. Please follow detours.

— Nevada Street will be closed between Fleischmann Way and Bath Street, Monday-Thursday, 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Lane closures or restrictions expected at the following locations due to road/utility work. Please use caution.

— U.S. 50 at the U.S. 395 intersection will be reduced to one lane in each direction, until further notice, for freeway improvements (travel delays are expected on South Carson Street near the U.S. 50 Spooner junction)

— South Carson Street will have a single northbound lane closed, between Clear Creek and Snyder Avenues, Monday-Friday, for all hours

— South Carson Street will have a single southbound lane closed, between Clear Creek and Snyder Avenues, Monday-Thursday, 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

— W. College Parkway will have single lane closures, between Carson Street and N. Ormsby Boulevard., Monday-Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

— Koontz Lane will have narrowed lanes between South Carson Street and Silver Sage Drive, Monday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

— College Parkway and Retail Drive intersection will have reduced turn lanes, Thursday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Special Event: Epic Rides, a nationally known endurance bike ride will be held in Carson City on June 16th through the 18th. There will be significant impacts to traffic on Carson Street and west of downtown. Details on the event and an interactive road closure map can be found here and at http://epicrides.com.

— Major work along Jacks Valley Road in Douglas County will begin Monday, June 12. Beginning Monday, grinding and pulverizing of the existing surface will start in the Town of Genoa and proceed north. The entire roadway will be repaved during the final construction stages.

The project is expected to be finished at the end of August. Motorists are advise to adhere to the traffic control personnel and posted signs. During various stages of construction flaggers and pilot cars will be used to maintain safe traffic flows during construction.

Driveway access will be maintained throughout construction, although there is a potential for traffic delays during asphalt removal and paving operations at side streets, driveways and the pilot car flagging locations.

At Lake Tahoe, the Nevada Department of Transportation began work last week to reinforce a destabilized roadside slope for enhanced safety on Highway 50 near Cave Rock.

This year, numerous boulders roughly the size of large passenger vehicles have fallen from a roadside slope onto eastbound travel lanes of U.S. 50 near Logan Creek Drive north of Cave Rock. No vehicles have been involved in the slides, and no injuries reported. Since then, travel lanes have been reduced to one lane in each direction, with both directions of traffic shifted to westbound lanes away from the rock fall area. NDOT placed rows of concrete barrier rail and large gravel bags on the closed eastbound side of the roadway to help further diffuse and prevent rock fall onto travel lanes.

NDOT is now working to enhance and reinforce the slope, as well as construct a roadside wall to help prevent future erosion. U.S. 50 will continue to be reduced to one lane in each direction in the Logan Creek Drive area during construction. Brief travel delays may temporarily take place in future months if one-way traffic with pilot cars is needed to safely guide motorists through the road work zone during major construction activities.