If you’ve driven on Green Valley Parkway adjacent the 215 Beltway successful Henderson, you’ve astir apt seen factual columns rising connected some sides of the roadworthy southbound of the freeway.
The columns are the archetypal disposable portions of a pedestrian span that volition beryllium built implicit Green Valley Parkway arsenic portion of the larger $160 cardinal 215 Beltway widening task betwixt Pecos Road and St. Rose Parkway and Stephanie Street.
The full project, which began successful May 2025, is conscionable shy of 50 percent implicit and remains connected budget, according to task technologist Kevie Remynse.
Plans telephone for expanding the freeway by 2 lanes successful each absorption betwixt Pecos and Stephanie. That volition summation capableness connected the 215, from 3 lanes with an auxiliary lane successful each absorption to 5 lanes with an auxiliary lane successful each direction.
On-ramps and off-ramps betwixt Pecos and Stephanie volition beryllium upgraded, adding further crook lanes astatine Pecos, Green Valley Parkway, Valle Verde Drive and Stephanie.
The task is aimed astatine reducing postulation astatine regular choke points connected the beltway, particularly during unreserved hours.
Green Valley Parkway bridge
On Green Valley Parkway, enactment connected the pedestrian span is moving along, with important completion expected adjacent year.
“The columns are presently coming retired of the ground; you’ve astir apt seen immoderate of those poured,” Remynse said. “The adjacent steps, we are moving connected the ramp walls, getting those poured. So, the ramps volition beryllium going successful close now. The existent span operation is expected to beryllium delivered successful March, (with) span substantially implicit astir April of adjacent year.”
The span volition let pedestrians and cyclists to transverse Green Valley Parkway betwixt the 2 sides of the District astatine Green Valley Ranch buying halfway without interacting with conveyance postulation below. It volition let continuity for those utilizing the 215 Beltway Trail and amended postulation travel for vehicles.
There volition beryllium afloat directional closures of Green Valley Parkway aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth erstwhile workers acceptable the span implicit the roadway.
“We can’t safely fto vehicular postulation done erstwhile they’re mounting that,” Remynse said. “We volition enactment with the nationalist outreach squad and springiness arsenic overmuch announcement arsenic imaginable arsenic good arsenic immoderate of our adjacent stakeholders successful the country to marque definite that we don’t deed it connected a engaged weekend.”
The overnight closures volition hap successful March oregon April, she noted.
Green Valley Parkway DDI
The Green Valley overpass supra the 215 volition beryllium revamped from a modular intersection into a diverging diamond interchange (DDI).
The nonstandard intersection features weaving postulation lanes, allowing vehicles to crook near onto freeway on-ramps without stopping oregon affecting traffic.
Construction tied to the interchange is expected to statesman successful April, aft enactment connected the pedestrian span is wrapping up.
“Some of the restrictions we tin expect for that would beryllium a azygous lane successful the overnight areas and past 2 lanes positive crook lanes during the day,” Remynse said. “And that’s conscionable to support the country harmless for the nationalist arsenic they’re driving done that area. We’re going to effort to bounds the two-lane restrictions during the time arsenic overmuch arsenic humanly possible, but determination are going to beryllium times wherever it is indispensable to person that successful place. “
Henderson already has 1 diverging diamond intersection astatine Horizon Drive and Horizon Ridge Parkway implicit Interstate 11. That interchange has been unfastened since 2015.
“It allows postulation to travel easier done the intersection,” Remynse said. “It does chopped down connected immoderate of the hold times. On apical of that, for information reasons, it does trim immoderate of the struggle points for the cars going done the intersection. And it allowed america to usage the existing operation by modifying that intersection to a DDI. We didn’t person to teardrop down the full structure.”
Pecos/St. Rose off-ramps
The added lane connected some off-ramps from the 215 successful some directions to Pecos/St. Rose should unfastened by the extremity of the year.
Although the caller lane connected the off-ramp from 215 eastbound to St. Rose southbound has been paved, determination is inactive immoderate enactment successful the country that needs to beryllium done, chiefly tied to median-island and aboveground improvements, earlier it tin unfastened to traffic.
“But we are getting person connected that one,” Remynse said.
Mainline 215
The bully quality for motorists who question connected the 215 wrong the project’s scope is that determination are nary planned closures for the mainline Beltway. There volition beryllium intermittent ramp closures, which has been the lawsuit since enactment began connected the project.
“We bash effort to get astatine slightest a week’s notice, if possible,” Remynse said.
The upgraded 215 eastbound to Green Valley Parkway off-ramp should beryllium substantially implicit by the extremity of the year, with retaining walls astir 97 percent implicit and dependable walls astir 85 percent complete.
“As portion of finishing up immoderate of those retaining walls, we’re going to commencement oregon proceed with our factual paving. So currently, the crews are moving successful the Green Valley Parkway to Valle Verde information of 215. They’re connected the eastbound side. And portion they’re placing that factual paving implicit connected the eastbound side, they’re moving connected grading and mentation of placing successful that aforesaid country connected the westbound side.”
“So, portion we whitethorn not beryllium capable to unfastened up the lanes arsenic soon arsenic that’s done,” Remynse added, “we would conscionable person to person different regularisation down the roadworthy astatine Valle Verde, that is simply a batch of large advancement connected the wide project.”
The added 2 lanes successful each absorption of the 215 volition not unfastened to postulation until the extremity of 2027, with important completion connected the task acceptable for March 2028, Remynse said.
“We’ll inactive person immoderate punch-list items retired there, truthful radical whitethorn inactive spot immoderate cones connected the road, but astir of the big-ticket items volition beryllium completed astatine that clip and unfastened for users,” she said.
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