Las Vegas Review-Journal

Road work ahead

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Downtown

The Charleston Boulevard off-ramp from southbound Interstate 15 will close from 6 a.m. Monday to March 6. Crews are building a new off-ramp.

The outside lane of northbound Interstate 15 is closed between Desert Inn Road and Sahara Avenue through late February. Crews are erecting traffic management signs.

The outside lane of southbound Interstate 15 is closed between Sahara Avenue and Flamingo Road through late April. Crews are erecting traffic management signs.

Main Street is restricted between Bonneville Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard through May. Crews are working on a storm drain.

Sections of Bonneville Avenue, Charleston Boulevard, Grand Central Parkway and Martin Luther King Boulevard will have closed or disrupted lanes surroundin­g the Spaghetti Bowl through July as crews work on Project Neon.

Northwest

Both directions of U.s.highway95 are narrowed to a single lane between Skye Canyon Park and Paiute drives through July 12. Crews are building a new interchang­e bridge.

Henderson

Center Street is restricted between Burkholder Boulevard and Lake Mead Parkway through June. Crews are making various road improvemen­ts.

North Las Vegas

Nellis Boulevard is restricted between Cheyenne Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard from 6 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays through July. Crews are installing sewer pipes.

Gasoline prices

The average gasoline price Friday in the Las Vegas Valley was $2.61 per gallon. It was $2.67 in Nevada. The national average of $2.53 is up 4 cents from a week ago, up 8 cents from a month ago and up 18 cents from a year ago. an increase in vehicle crashes at Charleston Boulevard and Hualapai Way, and she believes they may be caused by a combinatio­n of a “blind spot” and the flashing left-turn arrows for the traffic signals posted at Charleston.

Traffic engineers recently examined this intersecti­on and suppressed the flashing yellow arrow for drivers wanting to make a left turn from westbound Charleston from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, Las Vegas city spokeswoma­n Margaret Kurtz said.

“This means drivers will only be allowed to turn on a protected green arrow during these hours,” Kurtz said.

Beltway chunks

Dave said he’s noticed some “missing chunks” of pavement along the 215 Beltway near the Aliante area of North Las Vegas.

“It’s hard on me and the car,” Dave wrote in an email to the Road Warrior.

Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said crews did not notice any large areas of missing asphalt on the Beltway, but “a few small potholes” were spotted and will soon get patched up.

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