Bridge in southwest Las Vegas nears completion

By Mary Jane Belkeza

A road project connecting Mountain’s Edge, Southern Highlands and other surrounding areas in the south valley is nearly complete.

Clark County first broke ground in December 2023 on an empty dirt lot and is now transformed more than a year later.

Loreto Del Rosario told 8 News Now that he is waiting for crews to wrap up construction on a new bridge on Jones Boulevard and Blue Diamond Road that he says will be a nice shortcut to his job.

“Oh, it’ll be so much better because I work at Southpoint and it’ll just be straight ahead like five minutes or so,” Del Rosario stated. “If they don’t open this up, it’ll take about 15 minutes.”

Angela Nosacek-Landerman and Lou Landerman first moved to the area 11 years ago and have watched their neighborhood grow. They said all the roadwork is a sign of more development.

“I mean when we first came here there was a lot of open lots and stuff and now it’s all complete and it’s really busy out there now,” Nosacek-Landerman said.

The Landerman’s hope this bridge will cut down on congestion and time.

“Definitely with the traffic trying to go down Rainbow right now can be a nightmare so having another option hopefully will cut that down,” Landerman explained. “We have to take the big loop around or go down Rainbow so we end up going to Windmill or something and going all the way across so it’ll be really handy to be able to go through that way.”

The bridge will also connect Blue Diamond Road and Jones Boulevard down to Wigwam Road, overlooking the train tracks with more traffic signals, sidewalks and lighting.

“Getting to Blue Diamond right now is such a pain,” Nosacek-Landerman added. “It’ll be so nice to have a direct shot there rather than trying to do big loops to get to different areas of Blue Diamond, it’ll be really convenient and nice.”

Clark County expects the bridge to open summer 2025.