Phase 2B-2 of the Carson City Freeway project was completed earlier this summer. That phase consisted of grading, drainage improvements and construction of the Snyder Avenue overcrossing in the area just east of the south junction of US 395 and US 50.
Here's a view of the project area. The cars at lower right are coming down US 50 from Lake Tahoe and joining US 395 at that signal.
(Edit: Image posted on Photobucket deleted)Standing in the future median, more or less, and looking east toward the Snyder Avenue bridge.
(Edit: Image posted on Photobucket deleted)Looking west from near the bridge, you can see the mound which will become the approach to the overcrossing of US 395 and the adjacent off-ramp. That overcrossing will be constructed in Phase 2B-4. At the completion of Phase 2B-3, all traffic will be diverted off the freeway to that off-ramp, and drivers heading up to Lake Tahoe will still have to pass through a signal to get to the Spooner Grade portion of US 50.
(Edit: Image posted on Photobucket deleted)The facing of the bridge has a Native American motif as a nod to the Stewart Indian Community which is just to the southeast. Apparently "USEWE? WAT'A" is an approximation of "Snyder Avenue" in the Washo language.
(Edit: Image posted on Photobucket deleted)Nothing has happened for three years or so on the segment more to the northeast, paralleling South Edmonds Drive. The bridges and drainage facilities over there were constructed a few years ago. That section of the freeway, which runs through a semirural residential area, will run below grade. There were some pretty decent mudflows off that nearby hill to the east in a recent severe thunderstorm; I hope their drainage work can handle those events.
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