Traffic on U.S. Highway 93 southbound toward the Hacienda Hotel & Casino backs up on Friday, Oct. 21, due to a one-hour lane closure in both directions. Similar closures are not expected between now and the completion of the widening project Nov. 21. The $15.9 million project started in late August. Photo by Steve Andrascik.

By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review

The road-widening project through Hemenway Valley has reached the home stretch.

The widening is on schedule for completion Monday, Nov. 21, in time for the Thanksgiving Day weekend, the Nevada Department of Transportation said this week.

That is also the date tractor-trailers will return to the southbound lane of U.S. Highway 93 south of Buchanan Boulevard.

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By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review

Some Boulder City residents at an April 7 meeting held by state transportation officials expressed worry that a planned widening of U.S. Highway 93 won’t ease traffic snarls in their city.

Nevada Department of Transportation officials spent the evening showing diagrams of the project, which is scheduled to start this summer, and answering questions from skeptical locals who gathered in the first-floor lobby of the College of Southern Nevada building in Boulder City.

Approximately 160 residents attend a presentation by Nevada Department of Transportation officials April 7 discussing the widening and safety improvements to U.S. Highway 93. Photo by Steve Andrascik.

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By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review

The Nevada Department of Transportation is seeking public comment on improvements planned for U.S. Highway 93 between Buchanan Boulevard and the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge.

The department will hold a public information meeting from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 7, in room 100 at the College of Southern Nevada’s Boulder City Campus, 700 Wyoming St.

State officials will make presentations at 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., followed by public comment periods. Afterward, there will be an open house to let people see displays and discuss the project with state officials.

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By Arnold M. Knightly, Boulder City Review

You don’t need to tell local resident Tony Radford that Boulder City’s public bus system has become less reliable since the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge opened Oct. 19. He knows.

Radford, who has ridden the Boulder City route for three years, said the bus runs continually behind schedule, as much as an hour, since traffic increased.

“Usually, it was on time up until that bridge opened up,” Radford said Friday after exiting the bus near Nevada Highway and Buchanan Avenue. “Now you can’t depend on it. When the traffic is bad, it just comes when it comes. It’s random.”

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