Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 | 1:55 a.m.
CARSON CITY – The state Transportation Department has set aside $45 million in its construction budget this fiscal year for a segment of the California-Nevada Super Speed Train Project between Las Vegas and Primm.
But Tracy Larkin, assistant director of planning for the department, said the project is “limbo.” She said it still requires an environmental assessment and there are questions about matching funds.
The high-speed train project is part of $910.4 million in construction projects planned for Clark County this fiscal year. Some of these jobs will be financed by local government and some by the state.
They are part of the $480 million state construction budget approved by the state Transportation Board Wednesday.
The biggest project is the I-15 South design-build from Blue Diamond Road to Tropicana Avenue. But the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is using a bond to finance most of that cost. The low bid by Las Vegas Paving was $246 million.
Other major projects approved to start this year include $64.5 million for a freeway on the Boulder City Corridor from the U.S. 93/95 junction to the Foothill Grade separation and $53 million on the Martin Luther King/Industrial Road connector from Wyoming Avenue to Palomino Lane, including a six-lane overpass with grade separation at Oakey Boulevard.
The budget calls for $50 million to widen I-15 from Sahara Avenue to the Spaghetti Bowl to 10 lanes and it would include high occupancy vehicle lanes. And another $50 million is set aside to wide to four lanes State Route 160 from Mountain Springs to Fort Apache.
Looking ahead, the department has listed road construction projects to cost $314.8 million in fiscal 2011; $142.5 million in 2012 and $7.9 million in 2013.
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