#CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Transportation will begin a
#project Sept. 11 to replace an aging bridge on State Route 396/Upper Valley Road north of Lovelock.
#The bridge is located where State Route 396/Upper Valley Road transitions into a frontage road and travels over Union Pacific Railroad tracks alongside Interstate 80, approximately two miles north of I-80 Coal Canyon exit 112.
#Beginning Sept. 11 through winter, the bridge will be removed and the frontage road between I-80 Coal Canyon exit 112 and Oreana exit 119 will be closed to through traffic. Local and residential traffic will be able to access the frontage road via I-80 exits 112 and 119.
#Detours for residential traffic will add approximately ten minutes of travel time.
#Brief frontage road traffic closures may also take place in the spring for final paving and finishing construction. Interstate traffic will not be impacted.
#The bridge was originally constructed in 1931, with some subsequent widening and improvements.
#For safety, travel over the aging bridge has been prohibited for heavy commercial vehicles.
#The original structure will be replaced by a more than thirty-two foot wide steel girder bridge, providing a four-foot wider roadway.