{"id":91996,"date":"2019-10-26T01:06:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T01:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/construction-will-cause-delays-on-u-s-160-north-of-towaoc\/"},"modified":"2019-10-26T01:06:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T01:06:54","slug":"construction-will-cause-delays-on-u-s-160-north-of-towaoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/construction-will-cause-delays-on-u-s-160-north-of-towaoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction will cause delays on U.S. 160 north of Towaoc"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=49184ff4-c7ec-493c-894b-a52ebe132215&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"A crash on U.S. Highway 160\/491 near a construction zone sent a driver to the hospital on Tuesday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A crash on U.S. Highway 160\/491 near a construction zone sent a driver to the hospital on Tuesday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Patrick Armijo\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Colorado Department of Transportation and contractor Oldcastle SW Group began paving the newly reconstructed stretch of U.S. Highway 160\/491 north of Towaoc where two passing lanes are being added.<\/p>\n<p>With paving underway over the next two weeks and into early November, motorists can expect travel delays. From 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, there will be single-lane, alternating traffic along the paving work zone, which may extend up to 2 miles in length. A lane shift remains in place 24\/7, as does the 11-foot width restriction.<\/p>\n<p>The project is completing safety improvements with construction of alternating passing lanes between mile points 27.75 and 29.75, realignment of CR A and CR B to create T junctions with U.S. 160\/491 to increase sight distance for those entering the highway from these county roads, construction of acceleration and deceleration lanes on U.S. 160\/491 in both directions at these two intersections, closure of CR 21, which lies between A and B, to eliminate access conflicts along this stretch, installation of a waterline and slip-lining an existing wooden drainage structure under the highway, installation of new guardrail and guardrail end sections, new fencing, seeding and striping.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 560-1211, email <a href=\"mailto:us160.491passinglanes@gmail.com\">us160.491passinglanes@gmail.com<\/a> or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codot.gov\/admin\/projects\/us-160-491-passing-lanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.codot.gov\/admin\/projects\/us-160-491-passing-lanes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crash on U.S. Highway 160\/491 near a construction zone sent a driver to the hospital on Tuesday.Patrick Armijo\/The Journal The Colorado Department of Transportation and contractor Oldcastle SW Group began paving the newly reconstructed stretch of U.S. Highway 160\/491 north of Towaoc where two passing lanes are being added. With paving underway over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5749,5738,5736,5735,5741],"tags":[202,21,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-91996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-cortez","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","tag-briefs","tag-cortez","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91996","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=91996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91996"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=91996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}