Fans who attend Raiders' games next season, will have an easier time getting home. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)

By Nigel Maxwell

Road Improvements

City paves the way for smoother fan experience

Jun 2, 2020 | 3:00 PM

A $30,000 road improvement project will likely appease Raiders fans or anyone else who attends big events at the Art Hauser Centre.

City crews are hard at work this week widening Gary Anderson Way, making room for both a right hand turning lane and a left hand turning lane, leaving the parking lot. Public Works Director Wes Hicks said crews are also moving the curb back on the northbound side of sixth Ave. E., allowing three lanes.

“As you leave the facility, you’ll have your own lane to get up to speed and join the traffic,” he said.

The essential goal of the project is to help create a better fan experience. Hicks explained the city is aware of some traffic issues related to events held at the Art Hauser Centre.

“When you’re leaving the facility after an event, of course the parking lot is full, everybody is trying to leave at the same time, and it’s always been just wide enough for one lane in, one lane out,” he said.

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Crews at work Tuesday morning along sixth Ave. E. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)

The work which was approved in November during budget deliberations, was scheduled to start last week but was delayed due to the rain. Hicks anticipated the work to take no more than a week.

In the meantime, drivers who use the road have been advised northbound traffic will be restricted to one lane while the work is being done.

The city has approved a total of 20 road related projects this year, and the one on sixth Ave. E. marks the city’s third paving and concrete job of the year.

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