Construction Complete

Business owners on Second Street in the downtown area will get some relief now that front door access to their shops has been returned as construction officials for the U.S. 70 project are shifting gears to expedite their time in that area.

Eric Norwood Jr.: Portales News-Tribune
Russell Critchell, top, and Paul Garcia set up the bases for new street lights on Main Avenue on Thursday. Construction will be ongoing in the downtown area until at least late October, according to construction officials.

But construction will be ongoing downtown, one of the more congested areas of the highway, until at least late-October as U.S. 70 reconstruction project officials say they are only halfway through the second phase of the project, which tracks from Avenue C to Main.

Constructors Inc., Project Manager John Guldemann said workers will shift traffic from the outer lane to the inner lane of First Street today, which will help the flow of traffic around the Roosevelt County Courthouse Square but block front door access to City Hall and the city’s post office.


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