Motorists should brace for EDC-related traffic this weekend

With EDC partygoers acceptable to instrumentality to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway aft a year’s hiatus, the archetypal lights attendees volition spot are apt of the brake variety.

Nearly 400,000 attendees are expected to enactment the nighttime distant astatine EDC implicit the three-day lawsuit that begins Friday nighttime and runs done aboriginal Monday morning, creating an uptick successful postulation connected country highways.

The metropolis is expected to beryllium bustling with enactment this play arsenic connected apical of EDC, the Raiders play the Philadelphia Eagles astatine 1:05 p.m. Sunday astatine Allegiant Stadium among different conventions and events taking spot successful valley.

Nevada Department of Transportation spokeswoman Adrienne Packer said motorists should brace for congestion connected Interstate 15 this weekend, but particularly during the coming Monday greeting commute.

“While astir festivalgoers get astatine antithetic times, we’ve learned from past years that the wide exodus connected Monday greeting causes congestion on I-15 south,” Packer said. “We would suggest that section commuters find alternate routes to enactment connected Monday greeting to debar traffic.”

Packer besides noted that attendees and motorists should beryllium reminded of the ongoing lane restrictions and postulation shifts on U.S. Highway 95 arsenic the viaduct rehab enactment continues.

NDOT is not readying immoderate lane reductions this play connected I-15 adjacent its 215 Beltway interchange task truthful arsenic to not adhd to the imaginable congestion.

Packer besides reminded those who program to instrumentality successful immoderate of the overnight enactment astatine the speedway to beryllium liable down the wheel.

“As always, we inquire that everyone attending the lawsuit thrust sober and safely,” Packer said.

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