Road Repair Work Through Friday On Old Nogales Highway

Press release from Pima County Department of Transportation:

June 17, 2021

Beginning Wednesday, June 16 through Friday June 18, between 6 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Pima County Department of Transportation and its contractor, Granite Construction, Inc., will be performing road repair work on Old Nogales Highway.

The work will consist of setting traffic control, lowering utilities, milling and repaving and temporary striping.

• Wednesday, June 16: One-day closure: Old Nogales Highway from Nogales Highway to Old Vail Connection will be temporarily closed as crews pave up to the Union Pacific Railroad crossing. Motorists will be detoured to Lumber Street.
• Wednesday, June 16 through Friday, June 18: milling and repaving Old Nogales Highway from Nogales Highway, south to the Tucson city limits.
• Temporary striping is scheduled to be completed on or around, June 18.

Flaggers and Pima County Sheriff's Deputies will be on site to direct, monitor and control traffic movements through the construction zone. Please approach the area with caution and obey all traffic control devices. Minor delays may occur during this work.

In the event of mechanical failure or inclement weather, the construction schedule is subject to change.

In Fiscal Year 2020/2021, the Pima County Board of Supervisors and Transportation Department allocated $56 million in road repair and preservation funding for the Road Repair and Preservation Program. To learn about the Department of Transportation’s Pavement Preservation Program and the projects that are currently scheduled, please visit www.pima.gov/RoadRepairMap.

This press release was produced by Pima County Department of Transportation. The views expressed here are the author's own.