Las Vegas Beltway
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| Bruce Woodbury Beltway |
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| Las Vegas Beltway Maintained by NDOT and Clark Co. DPW |
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| Length: | 53 mi[citation needed] (85 km) I-215: 2.417 miles (3.890 km)[citation needed] |
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| Formed: | 2006 (as I-215) | ||||||||
| South end: | .svg/25px-I-515_(NV).svg.png){kind=small}    I-515 / US 93 / US 95 / SR 564 in Henderson |
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| Beltway around Las Vegas | |||||||||
| Major junctions: |
.svg/20px-I-15_(NV).svg.png){kind=small} I-15 in Enterprise |
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| North end: | I-15 / US 93 near Nellis AFB |
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The Bruce Woodbury Beltway (sometimes called the Las Vegas Beltway) is the name for the highway composed of Interstate 215 (I-215) in Nevada and Clark County Route 215 (CC-215) that passes around the center of the Las Vegas valley. The I-215 portion of the Bruce Woodbury Beltway runs from Interstate 15 at Exit 34, and travels southeast to a terminus at Interstate 515. The CC-215 section of the beltway is a $1.5 billion, 40-mile-long[citation needed] roadway being built to Interstate Highway standards by Clark County.
The beltway currently consists of two different road types: freeway and a limited access expressway. The system is a freeway from the I-515 interchange in Henderson to Charleston Boulevard in western Las Vegas. The expressway sections are currently being upgraded in several areas to a freeway.
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[edit] History
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AASHTO approved the I-215 designation for 18.9 miles of (then unbuilt) highway, from Tropicana Avenue to US 95 (I-515) on April 17, 1993.[1]
The first section of the I-215 opened to traffic in 1996 from I-15 to Warm Springs Road, including the airport tunnel, linking McCarran International Airport to South Las Vegas without using Tropicana Avenue or Russell Road to access the airport. The south end of the beltway was completed ahead of schedule in 1999, while the north end was extended from Decatur Boulevard in 1998 to Tropicana Avenue by 2000, with remaining sections of the beltway completed by 2002, either as a full freeway or frontage roads.
Roads & Bridges magazine, a national publication that provides the latest technology news and information to the Transportation Construction industry, named the Las Vegas Beltway as one of the nation's Top Ten Road Projects in 2002.
The portions of the beltway on the western side of I-15 are not designated as I-215, but rather as "Clark County 215". This section is being built completely with local funds, no state or federal money was spent on Clark County 215. A tax measure voted on by the County residents increased funding for the beltway. As a result, it is expected to be fully upgraded to a freeway by 2013, rather than the previous goal of 2025.
In 2003, the entire 53 mile long beltway was opened with the beltway consisting of three different road types: freeway, a limited access expressway, and as a frontage road with all three as sections of County highway 215. On August 9, 2006 a section of freeway was completed that allowed the connection of previously completed freeway sections that covered about half of the roads length from the SR 564 terminus to Charleston Boulevard.
At the Board of County Commission meeting on March 2, 2004, the road was renamed as the Bruce Woodbury Beltway.[2] The Board approved a resolution recognizing Commissioner Woodbury for his many years and efforts in the future of transportation in this valley and of being worthy of having the Beltway renamed for him.
I-215 was built on the State Route 146 alignment between Exit 6 (Saint Rose Parkway/Pecos Road) and Mile 0 (the Interstate 515/U.S. Route 93/U.S. Route 95 interchange), formerly known as Lake Mead Drive. Since the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) does not co-sign state routes along Interstate highways, SR 146 was truncated to its current eastern terminus at I-215. SR 146 was co-signed with I-215 from Pecos Road to I-515/US 93/US 95, even though the state highway designation no longer existed in this section when the freeway was completed. Some SR 146 signs still remain on the I-215 as of December 23, 2007.
[edit] Exit list
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The entire route is in Clark County.
| Location | Mile | Exit # | Destinations | Notes |
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| Henderson | SR 564 (Lake Mead Parkway) becomes  I-215 |
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| 1 | I-515 / US 93 / US 95 – Las Vegas, Boulder City |
Interchange completed 2006 | ||
| 2 | Gibson Road | Interchange completed April 29, 2000[1] | ||
| 3A | Stephanie Street | |||
| 3B | Valle Verde Drive | |||
| 5 | Green Valley Parkway | |||
| 6 |  SR 146 west (Saint Rose Parkway) / Pecos Road |
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| 7 | Eastern Avenue | |||
| 8 | Windmill Lane | |||
| 9 | Warm Springs Road | |||
| Enterprise | 10 |  Sunset Road (SR 171) – McCarran Airport |
December 31, 1995[1] | |
| 11 | Las Vegas Boulevard (SR 604) | Eastbound exit splits from exit 12B | ||
| 12A | I-15 north – Las Vegas, Salt Lake City |
to Las Vegas Strip, Downtown Las Vegas | ||
| 12B | I-15 south – Los Angeles |
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| End I-215; Begin CC 215 |
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| 13 | Decatur Boulevard | |||
| 14 | Jones Boulevard | Opened November 11, 1999[3] | ||
| 15 | Rainbow Boulevard | Opened November 11, 1999[3] | ||
| Spring Valley | 16 | Buffalo Drive | Opened 2006 | |
| 17 | Durango Drive |  Exit westbound & Entrance eastbound; signed Durango Drive/Sunset Road; opened 2006 |
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| 18 | Sunset Road | Exit southbound & Entrance northbound; signed Sunset Road/Durango Drive; opened 2006 |
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| 19 | Russell Road (Las Vegas) | Opened 2006 | ||
| 20 | Tropicana Avenue | Opened 2006 | ||
| 21 | Flamingo Road | Signed exit 19 southbound | ||
| Summerlin South | 23 | Town Center Drive | SPUI interchange opened 2005 | |
| 25 | Sahara Avenue | Opened 2001[3] | ||
| 26 |  SR 159 (Charleston Boulevard) – Red Rock Canyon |
Opened 2001[3]; to Hughes Park Drive, Summerlin Centre; End freeway | ||
| Las Vegas | Far Hills Avenue | |||
| Summerlin Parkway | Begin freeway | |||
| Lake Mead Boulevard (future)[4] | ||||
| Cheyenne Avenue | Interchange completed October 30, 2007[5] | |||
| Lone Mountain Road | End freeway | |||
| Lone Mountain | Ann Road | |||
| 35[6] | Hualapai Way | Begin freeway | ||
| 37[6] | Durango Drive | End freeway | ||
| Las Vegas | US 95 – Las Vegas, Reno |
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| Jones Boulevard | ||||
| Decatur Boulevard | ||||
| North Las Vegas | Aliante Parkway | |||
| Revere Street (future)[citation needed] | ||||
| 5th Street (future)[7] | ||||
| Losee Road | ||||
| 44[citation needed] | Pecos Road | |||
| 45[citation needed] | Lamb Boulevard | |||
| 46[citation needed] | Range Road | |||
| 48[citation needed] | I-15 / US 93 – Las Vegas, Ely, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City |
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c I-215 Nevada. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
- ^ Clark County beltway site.
- ^ a b c d Las Vegas Beltway. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
- ^ "Boosted police presence to be residual benefit of new building", Summerlin South View, View Neighborhood Newspapers, 2007-07-24. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
- ^ KLAS-TV October 30, 2007 5 pm broadcast
- ^ a b Number as posted at exit
- ^ Beltway construction continues (pdf). Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
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