![]() The SR 237/I-880 Express Connectors project opened to tolling operations on March 20, 2012. There are no tollbooths or traffic gates, so customers do not need to slow down or stop to make a toll payment. Important: When you see HOV Only on the gantry sign over the carpool/express lane it means solo drivers may not use the HOV/express lane unless they are driving a motorcycle or clean air vehicle with applicable decals. ![]() The double white lines are in effect 24 hours a day, seven days a week, regardless of carpool or express lane hours of operation. Drivers must always adhere, however, to the limited entry and exits and may not cross the double solid white lines. During non-operational hours anyone can use express lanes. The afternoon hours in both directions remain 3pm-7pm. Eastbound commute hours will remain 5am-9am. Express lanes operate the same hours as carpool lanes with an exception of an extended hour on westbound SR 237 from 5am until 10am. Toll paying drivers have until Dixon Landing Road to exit the carpool lane. The double white line striping begins just after Zanker Road and continues through northbound I-880 ending south of Dixon Landing Road in Milpitas. Traveling eastbound on SR 237: enter the express lane between North First Street and Zanker Road. Toll paying drivers have until Lawrence Expressway to exit the carpool lane. As you continue westbound on SR 237 towards Mountain View the double white lines will end after the North First Street exit. Driving from southbound on I-880: enter the express lane in Milpitas, south of Dixon Landing Road. The orange barrels on I-15 are now a symbol of problem-solving and progress - not just annoyance.Express Lanes have limited entry and exit points. Highway 95 west of downtown Las Vegas, might have to give way to cheaper jobs that maximize the use of space on and between divided freeways, through new paving and re-striping. Massive widening projects, such as the recently completed expansion of U.S. That means big rigs, motorcycles and single-occupant vehicles will have to learn the value of sharing the lanes and not having anyone cut in front of them as they cruise past the Strip.Īs the state tries to address a multibillion-dollar highway funding shortfall for the decade ahead, projects such as these will be a big part of the solution to the region’s traffic problems. Speedsters shouldn’t get the idea that they’ll be entitled to drive 80 mph in the express lanes - though the lanes will be the farthest left, there will be no restrictions on who can use them. And that will make driving a little easier and a little faster. “The true benefit will be that it eliminates weaving,” NDOT Director Susan Martinovich said. The lanes will be segregated by barriers called “candlesticks” to contain lane changing. When the project is done in late 2009, the freeway will have a fifth lane between the Beltway and Sahara for drivers who don’t want to exit in between. NDOT will use existing right of way to add the lanes at a cost of $21.5 million. The delays will test drivers’ patience, just when they were getting comfortable with the improved traffic flow of the recently added fourth lane in each direction.īut the inconvenience will be worth the short-term misery. The work will turn one of Nevada’s busiest stretches of highway into a gridlocked mess during peak traffic periods. Motorists will see a lot of them along the Interstate 15 resort corridor over the next year as the Nevada Department of Transportation adds express lanes between the southern Las Vegas Beltway and Sahara Avenue. Las Vegas Valley drivers instinctively loathe the orange barrels that warn of road construction and the resulting lane restrictions and traffic congestion.
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