Can you please give me some information on the (proposed?) Valley View Road overpass between Flamingo and Tropicana? I'm considering staying near there and am concerned about the noise level.
First off, some good news. The contracts for the planned cloverleaf won’t be finalized until the end of this year.
Better yet, it will be well away from any casino-hotels, separated from the Strip by the I-15 corridor and several blocks south of Flamingo Road.
The bad news is that you’d better plan for a lot of disruption if you’re driving on Valley View Road or Harmon Avenue: The overpass is scheduled to take three years to complete.
“The purpose of this project is to improve access to and through the resort corridor … Access to the resort corridor to and from the west is limited by Interstate 15 and the UPRR [train] tracks,” reads the formal project overview. The ultimate goal of the multi-phase endeavor is to connect the Spring Valley area with the Strip. It’s a grand scheme that began in 2004 with the construction of a bridge connecting Polaris Avenue to the Strip. Subsequent phases (“subject to available funding”) are widening Harmon Avenue to six lanes as it crosses the resort corridor to Koval Lane; connecting Arville Street and Wynn Road with a Harmon bridge over the Flamingo Wash; and upgrading Harmon between Jones and Decatur boulevards.
Once completed, the Harmon-Valley View connector will (in theory) alleviate traffic on both Flamingo Road and Tropicana Avenue by providing a third east-west alternative for motorists. (Anyone who’s experienced a traffic backup at Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard will applaud the goal.) It's also meant to improve back-door access to the resorts themselves. “Valley View Boulevard will become the first north/south continuous roadway west of I-15 providing an alternative to I-15 for approximately 10 miles,” reads the prospectus. To that end, Valley View will be widened in both directions.
Clark County is predicting 40,000 vehicles per day on Harmon and Valley View by 2025. The county has been studying this and other traffic issues since 1994, when the first feasibility survey was commissioned. It began looking into the Harmon/Valley View situation in late 2000, meaning that the overpass will have been nearly two decades in the making once construction actually begins.
According to Clark County’s formal presentation, the progress of the grand scheme was impeded by the recession. It also involved negotiations for various rights of way, including with the Union Pacific Railroad. Clark County had no comment on noise-abatement issues, but given the location of the work, we don't expect them to significantly impinge on your resort experience.
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Llew
Dec-04-2018
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