Traffic Control
Major night work operations have concluded for the remainder of the year. Some nightly lane closures on Los Altos Parkway at Pyramid Highway are possible as electrical crews install new signal poles at the intersection.
Spring Ridge Drive - Postponed until January 2024. Residents can expect reduced lane widths and lane shifts as crews install underground drainage across Spring Ridge Drive at Pyramid Highway. Work will be occurring 24-hours-a-day. Neighborhood access will be maintained, with right turns to enter and exit the neighborhood.
Queen Way - The northbound Queen Way on-ramp to Pyramid Highway remains closed 24-hours-a-day. Drivers will detour to 4th Street to McCarran Boulevard.
Los Altos Parkway at Walmart - One of the two left turn lanes onto southbound Pyramid Highway will be closed nightly, between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Los Altos Parkway - Traffic reduced to one lane each in direction nightly at Pyramid Highway, between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Pyramid Highway - Southbound traffic reduced to a single lane the night of Thursday, December 14 between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Project Landscaping and Aesthetics
Over the last several months, commuters on Pyramid Highway have seen rock placed on slopes, boulders arranged in piles, walls being formed, and fish sculptures installed. All of these items are part of the project's landscape and aesthetic design theme, Pyramid Lake Biodiversity.
Aesthetic elements highlight some of the unique waterfowl and fish found around Anaho Island (the large island at the south end of Pyramid Lake). These include the American White Pelican, Cui-ui fish and Lahontan Cutthroat Trout.
The weathering steel sculptures represent both Cui-ui and trout swimming. Walls throughout the project include both fish and the American White Pelican in motion along with patterns representing water, sky, fish scale, and lakebed. While the walls have specific functions such as sound or visual mitigation, they also provide a large canvas that can be used to convey the theme and improve the visual quality.
Some of the project's landscape elements are designed into the erosion control and slope stability efforts. When roads are widened, cut slopes often become steeper and less natural looking. On this project, multiple rock types of various sizes and colors are used in a naturalistic pattern. Additionally, seeding within some of the larger rock and in soil areas will provide seasonal visual interest with wildflowers and adapted plants. This method will break up the appearance of the slope and help prevent erosion.
Such landscape and aesthetics can also help enhance and define roadway corridors and reflect the heritage and culture of communities.
One of the fish sculpture designs on southbound Pyramid Highway.
