Southern Nevada roads getting $33.9 million in state maintenance work
Rainbow Boulevard, Nellis Boulevard and Lake Mead Parkway are among Las Vegas Valley roads slated for repairs as part of the state’s $33.9 million maintenance budget for Southern Nevada in the 2008 fiscal year, which starts July 1.
The road repair plan, which does not include road expansion projects like the ongoing widening of U.S. Highway 95 in the northwest valley, was approved Thursday by the Regional Transportation Commission and now needs passage by the Nevada Transportation Board in September to become official.
“Maintaining our existing assets is just as important as building new capacity,” Susan Martinovich, the state’s transportation director, told the Transportation Commission board.
The plan sets aside $1.7 million to fix Rainbow intersections at Desert Inn Road, Oakey Boulevard, Charleston Boulevard and Alta Drive. And $1.1 million is budgeted to resurface a four-mile stretch of Lake Mead Parkway east of U.S. 95 in Henderson.
Slightly less than $1 million is allotted to repave Nellis Boulevard between Charleston Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue.
Another $12.5 million will go for work linking existing U.S. Highway 93 to the planned Hoover Dam bypass bridge; $12.8 million to repair Northshore Road and other roads in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area; and $400,000 to restripe various parts of Interstate 15, U.S. 95 and the Las Vegas Beltway.
