Las Vegas commuters have until 9 p.m. Monday to brace for road construction dubbed the “Big Squeeze.”
The Nevada Department of Transportation announced that’s when U.S. Highway 95 will lose a traffic lane in each direction between Interstate 15 and Rancho Drive, a narrowing that will last until January 2018.
The highway will be narrowed to two lanes so that crews have room to build a new, 81-foot-tall flyover ramp for high-occupancy vehicles. “The Big Squeeze,” comes on the heels of “Car-nado,” a four-month closure of the I-15 southbound and northbound ramps connecting to northbound U.S. 95.
Both of those themed closures fall under the larger umbrella of Project Neon, a $1 billion effort to redesign and add traffic lanes along I-15 from the U.S. 95 interchange to Sahara Avenue by July 2019.
A third, yet-to-be-named closure is anticipated in 2018.