On Saturday, Jan. 26, the northbound lane of Yale Boulevard will be closed from Lomas to the intersection of Yale and Camino de Salud from 7 a.m. until midnight. The construction team on the project needs to remove a section of pavement from the roundabout in order to complete the project, the target date to open the roundabout intersection to traffic. The pavement being removed is part of the detour road that was added to the construction area the previous fall.
Traffic for UNM Hospital, the Office of the Medical Investigator, the UNM Cancer Center and other north campus departments will be detoured from Lomas westbound, past Yale to University Boulevard, turning north on University to Tucker, heading east on Tucker to Yale and south on Yale to eastbound Camino de Salud. A traffic plan has been developed with the city of Albuquerque to minimize difficulties for the one-day detour.
Cold weather has slowed progress on part of the roundabout construction, but as the weather warms over the holiday weekend delayed paving on Yale and Camino de Salud will be completed without impacting traffic.
After Jan. 26, northbound traffic will be allowed back onto north campus from the Lomas and Yale intersection, but will continued to be detoured around the roundabout construction area until the intersection’s opening.
Media Contact: Benson Hendrix, (505) 277-1816; e-mail: bhendrix@unm.edu