Parts of Highway 50 would go from four to two lanes.
Motorists on Highway 50 drive toward South Lake Tahoe, Calif., before a large winter storm arrives Jan. 26, 2021.has received so much pushback from concerned locals that the project is being delayed once again.
The Highway 50 Tahoe East Shore Corridor Management Plan is a massive, multi-agency restructuring of Tahoe’s most-trafficked route. U.S. Highway 50 was planned and built in the 1920s when the Tahoe Basin was a very different place, andby the Nevada Department of Transportation have shown that the main thoroughfare around the lake no longer safely accommodates the amount of drivers using it.
“Land use and residential communities have built out over time while recreation demand has increased dramatically,” the study found. “... US 50 no longer reflects or safely supports the travelers it serves. The result is unmanaged roadside parking and access, dangerous conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles, difficulty turning in/out of side streets and driveways, queuing from turning vehicles in travel lanes, and excessive speeds.
The corridor management plan hopes to redo the highway over the next few years to better serve local residents and tourists to the region. Among the biggest changes would be reducing some parts of the road from four to two lanes, and removing all parking along the highway; currently, parking on the shoulder often fills up quickly near tourist sites like Zephyr Cove.
The Nevada Department of Transportation proposes changing parts of Highway 50 around Tahoe for safety reasons over the next few years.The study found that in a 13-mile stretch from Spooner Summit to the California border, one-third of traffic crashes were due to high speed. Sixty percent of crashes occurred in clear weather, and only 14% involved snow. By reducing the number of lanes, the plan aims to force drivers to slow down closer to the posted speed limit.
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