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Las Vegas details East Side transportation, stormwater and workforce projects
Summary
City Public Works outlined a slate of East Las Vegas projects including $4.2 million in bus stop turnouts, Stewart Avenue complete-street design aiming for FY27 construction, Owens Avenue storm drainage upgrades, a five-year Safe Streets demonstration, and a 15,000-square-foot training center partnership with the College of Southern Nevada.
Joseph Norby, city traffic engineer and deputy public works director, briefed the Redevelopment Advisory Committee on a package of transportation, drainage and workforce projects planned for the East Las Vegas area. Norby said the city maintains about 38 centerline miles of roadway inside the plan boundary and is moving several projects from design into construction and federal funding phases.
Norby told the committee the current construction project is Eastern Avenue bus turnouts — “a $4,200,000 investment. We hope to have wrapped up and completed, by September, of this year.” He said the work includes stop improvements and right-turn pockets to keep buses out of the travel lane and reduce traffic disruption.
The city is also advancing a Stewart Avenue corridor redesign that is about 30 percent through design, Norby said. The Stewart project runs…
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