{"id":69604,"date":"2017-07-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/expect-slower-traffic-monday-as-crews-work-on-u-s-491-near-road-m\/"},"modified":"2017-07-16T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T07:00:00","slug":"expect-slower-traffic-monday-as-crews-work-on-u-s-491-near-road-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/expect-slower-traffic-monday-as-crews-work-on-u-s-491-near-road-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect slower traffic Monday as crews work on U.S. 491 near Road M"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8d3b095a-c9d7-4162-bb88-4b2aef92fe4a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1137\" alt=\"The first layer of asphalt has been laid on U.S. Highway 491 between County Road M and Colorado Highway 184, part of a 9-mile highway improvement project.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The first layer of asphalt has been laid on U.S. Highway 491 between County Road M and Colorado Highway 184, part of a 9-mile highway improvement project.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Colorado Department of Transportation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first layer of asphalt has been laid on U.S. Highway 491 between County Road M and Colorado Highway 184, part of a 9-mile highway improvement project, the Colorado Department of Transportation announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Crews will overlay the road with a final mat of asphalt as the project progresses.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, crews will remove old asphalt from Lebanon Road to Road M so they can replace it with two layers of new asphalt.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers should expect single-lane and slower traffic while asphalt is being removed, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and possibly on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Access to businesses may also be temporarily altered, the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>The project, contracted to Oldcastle SW Group for $6.9 million, began May 11 and is scheduled for completion by mid-October.<\/p>\n<p>Workers have already replaced about 3,000 feet of guardrail adjacent to Narraguinnep Reservoir on the south side of Colorado 184 and installed a concrete drainage pipe under U.S. 491 near Basin Coop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>first layer of asphalt has been laid on U.S. Highway 491 between County Road M and Colorado Highway 184, part of a 9-mile highway improvement project.Colorado Department of Transportation The first layer of asphalt has been laid on U.S. Highway 491 between County Road M and Colorado Highway 184, part of a 9-mile highway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202,21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69604"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}