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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 from Sixth Street to Nellis and is intended to improve mobility with wider sidewalks, separated bike facilities, lower speed limits, utility and lighting upgrades and intersection technology. “We are looking for 90% core plans within the next year,” Norby said, and the project is anticipated to start construction in fiscal 2027 because it is federally funded.
Norby identified an Owens Avenue storm-drain and sanitary sewer multi-phase project currently at roughly 30 percent design; he said the work will be coordinated regionally with North Las Vegas and Clark County. The city will begin design on Bruce Street (Bonanza to Owens) in fiscal 2026 to add wider sidewalks, trees, lighting and pedestrian crossings, he added.
Norby described regional and partner projects that affect the area: RTC’s Maryland Parkway bus-rapid-transit (BRT) corridor is under construction and the city is helping shape alternatives because the route intersects East Las Vegas infrastructure. The city is also pursuing federal Safe Streets for All funding for neighborhood safety and lighting improvements in the former neighborhood revitalization area; Norby said that effort is a five-year demonstration intended to “engineer it” before committing to permanent construction.
The Bonanza corridor is under consideration for highway-safety-improvement funding with the Nevada Department of Transportation after NDOT paused a separate downtown access project, Norby said. He also outlined a forthcoming pavement-preservation project covering 11 roadway segments and said the city will look for spot safety upgrades where feasible, particularly near schools and signalized intersections.
Norby closed by describing an East Side Education and Training Center proposed at Bonanza and Pecos on the Desert Pines golf course site. He said the planned facility would be a roughly 15,000-square-foot training center in partnership with the College of Southern Nevada and would include a healthcare lab, conference rooms, computer labs and vocational classrooms for manufacturing, construction and welding.
Committee members asked for clarification on timelines, the intended protected bike facilities on Stewart Avenue, and whether the training center would remove portions of the Desert Pines golf course. Norby answered that the Stewart plan retains the dedicated bike lanes included in the federal grant and characterized the Desert Pines redevelopment only at a high level as a potential multiuse redevelopment under city control. He said staff would follow up on questions they could not answer immediately.
