AVOID THE SUMMERLIN PARKWAY MESS

Motorists who use Summerlin Parkway, take heed.

The Las Vegas public works department has begun a $2 million improvement project, which will include repaving the freeway. The work will take more than two weeks and cause lane and ramp closures.

Crews with Southern Nevada Paving will add a third westbound travel lane from U.S. Highway 95 to Buffalo Drive, public works officials said.

Officials hope the project will be finished by June 1. No work is scheduled for Memorial Day weekend.

Watch for the following traffic disruptions as crews repave the six-mile freeway from U.S. 95 to the Las Vegas Beltway:

• TODAY UNTIL 8 P.M. -- Westbound Summerlin Parkway east of Town Center Drive to the Beltway will be reduced to one lane. The westbound onramps and offramps at Town Center and Anasazi Drive will be closed. To accommodate commuters, the Town Center offramp will be open today from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and will then reopen at 2 p.m.

• FROM 8 P.M. TODAY TO 8 P.M. WEDNESDAY -- Eastbound Summerlin Parkway will be reduced to one lane from the Beltway to just east of Town Center. The eastbound Anasazi and Town Center onramps and offramps will be closed.

• FROM 8 P.M. WEDNESDAY TO 8 P.M. THURSDAY -- Eastbound Summerlin Parkway will be reduced to one lane from east of Town Center to Buffalo Drive. The eastbound Rampart Boulevard and Durango Drive onramps will be closed. The Durango onramp will be open to traffic from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and will be reopened by 4 p.m.

• FROM 8 P.M. MAY 27 TO 8 P.M. MAY 28 -- Westbound Summerlin Parkway will be reduced to one lane from Buffalo to Town Center.

• FROM 8 P.M. MAY 28 TO 8 P.M. MAY 29 -- Summerlin Parkway will narrow to one travel lane in both directions from the Beltway to Town Center.

• FROM 8 P.M. MAY 29 TO 8 P.M. MAY 30 -- Eastbound Summerlin Parkway will be reduced to one lane from west of Town Center to Durango.

• FROM 8 P.M. MAY 30 TO 8 P.M. MAY 31 -- Eastbound Summerlin Parkway will be reduced to one lane from Rampart to Buffalo.

• FROM 6 A.M. MAY 31 TO 8 P.M. JUNE 1 -- Westbound Summerlin Parkway will narrow to one lane in each direction from U.S. 95 to Buffalo, and the Buffalo offramp will be closed.

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