If you are driving in your personal vehicle from the Dam and eventually thru mile post 17, on a vacation or sight-seeing
activity, you have no problems. some time delays but certainly nothing major. highway 93 is part of the NAFTA Highway to Canada and now that the overpass is completed there are lots of trucks on the highway The traffic flows along nicely. HOWEVER, if you are a commercial operation and will do a lot of traveling in areas indicated on the map, you would be well served to go to their web site and read all the information.
You will be very glad you did. There is entirely too much information to duplicate on our site.
HOOVER DAM WIDENING ROAD ON THE WAY
Las Vegas Review-Journal
posted Aug 5, 2011
Traffic along U.S.Highway 93 might worsen over the next couple of months, but in the end transportation officials said Thursday they think the boulder City Residents and commuters between Nevada and Arizona will be pleased wit the project.
The end is expected to be Nov. 19, the day before Thanksgiving Traffic Starts flowing in and out of the Las Vegas valley. The beginning will be Aug 15, when crews start their widening project along U.S. 93 between Boulder City and Hoover Dam.
"If there is congestion without the cones, imagine the congestion with construction," he said.
The hoe is drivers will check on traffic before heading toward the bridge and compounding the backups.
The Regional Transportation commission will assist commuters in doing just that. digital message signs will be erected at the point where U.S. Highway 95 toward Laughlin peels off from U.S. 93. The signs will offer a travel time to the bypass bridge and allow motorists to decide whether to divert through Laushlin.
Motorist also will be able to check cameras online to take a look at the traffic. The images can be seen on the Freeway Arterial system of Transportation (FAST) link on rtcsnv.com.
Traffic problems quickly became apparent shortly after the four-lane bypass bridge opened in October.
Unlike Arizona, Nevada's transportation division failed to widen a two-mile-long northbound portion and a five-mile southbound segment of U.S. 93.
Vehicles coming off the wider bridge sometimes hit a wall of traffic where the highway squeezes down to one lane in each direction. The bottleneck led to backups that stretch as far west as Cllege Drive in Henderson.
Several Solutions were pitched, including banning tractor-trailers from the bridge and rerouting them through Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona.
Residents applauded the proposal, but it did not sit well with the Nevada Motor Transit Association, which represents truckers' interests.
Also protesting the idea was Jack Hakim, mayor of Bullhead City, who has dealt with the trucks for a decade after the Sept.11, 100l, terriost attacks prompted federal officials to ban tractor-trailers from Hoover Dam.
Hakim said, the steep grade leading into Bullhead City from the south posed a great danger to residents because trucks have lost their brakes and barreled into town.
All sides compromised by agreeing restricted hours for trucks on U.S. 93 during the three-month construction period.
All oversized vehicles will be banned from the work zone between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m..
Commercial vehicles weighing more than 26,000 pound and traveling south will not be permitted to use the highway between 8a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday
The trucks will be permitted to trael northbound without restrictions to lleviate Hakim's concer4ns.
