Road report for week of Oct. 4-10

As a result of the next phase of the NDOT project on the freeway, Koontz Lane will be closed between Raglan Circle and Edmonds Drive until the end of the year.

The Roop Street widening project is continuing and is expected to be completed by the end of 2010. The following impacts are expected this week:

• Roop Street is now open between William Street and Robinson Street. Please be aware that Washington Street is now a one-way street westbound from Roop Street to just east of Walsh Street and the library entrance.

• Corbett Street will be closed at Roop Street on Monday. Local business traffic will be detoured via Molly Drive and Long Street.

• William Street will have intermittent lane closures at Roop Street Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. for westbound traffic.

• Long Street will be closed from Stewart Street to Marian Street. Traffic will be detoured via Stewart Street, Corbett Street, and Molly Drive.

• Lee Street and Beverly Street will be closed to through traffic at Roop Street. All Senior Center traffic should utilize Beverly Drive from the east via Marian Avenue, Molly Drive, and Corbett Street.

• Roop Street is closed from William Street to Stewart Street through the completion of the project.

The Nevada Department of Transportation is working to add a third northbound lane on Highway 395 between Jacks Valley Road and Lupin Drive. Please use caution when driving in this area.

Because of water utility improvements, Hells Bells Road between Parkhill Drive and Marsh Road will be closed to through traffic (local traffic allowed) all week.

Snyder Avenue just east of Conte Drive will be reduced to one-lane traffic with flaggers Monday through Wednesday, from

7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for water main construction.

Carson High School will be having their homecoming parade on Thursday from

6-7 p.m. The parade will start at Fremont School and proceed north on Saliman Road to Carson High School. The Carson City Sheriff's Dept. will be escorting the parade and providing traffic control, but the two northbound lanes will be temporarily blocked. Also, there will be a short delay crossing Saliman Road at Fifth Street when the parade reaches that point.