NDOT: Repaving begins Monday on Franktown Road in Washoe Valley
CARSON CITY, Nev. – The Nevada Department of Transportation will begin repaving Franktown Road, State Route 877 in Washoe Valley beginning this Monday, August 28.
Between Aug. 28 and early October, roadway drainage improvements on Franktown Road will be finalized and the roadway repaved. Access to driveways and residences will remain available throughout the repaving.
Road work will take place primarily between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. weekdays. Single-lane traffic with a traffic flagger alternating directions of travel will be in place during most of the road work.
But, as the road is repaved in mid-September, a temporary one-way traffic pattern will be in place to reduce travel delays and help provide more consistent travel times for drivers during paving. Motorists will enter the road from the north end near Bowers Mansion and exit at the south.
Single lane closures also took place in early summer as NDOT repaired roadside drainage and repaved driveway approaches connecting to the road.
The approximately $1.4 million project by contractor A&K Earthmovers, Inc. will help preserve the roadway surface. The approximately four-mile road will be repaved to provide a smoother, safer and more durable roadway surface. As much as three inches of the roadway surface will be removed and replaced with new asphalt to provide a more durable roadway surface projected to last 12 to 15 years.
The road was last fully repaved in 1996, with more recent resealing of the road surface in 2010 and 2015.