Gas line found during Custer Parkway rebuild means northbound closures at Campbell Road Monday

Drivers heading north on Custer Parkway will hit a closure at Campbell Road on Monday, Oct. 26, while Atmos Energy starts moving a gas line that turned up where the city's road project did not expect one.

Crews doing underground testing for the Custer Parkway Improvement Project came across the Atmos line in a spot where no line had been mapped, the city said in a notice Wednesday evening. Construction in that stretch cannot continue until the line is relocated.

When and where

Monday's closure of northbound Custer at Campbell is limited to off-peak hours: it is to run only between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. The city says drivers should expect northbound closures at the intersection on Tuesday, Oct. 27, as well, and to plan for delays around Custer and Campbell.

The city suggests two ways around the work:

• Cap Rock Drive to Custer Parkway
• Nantucket Drive to Copper Ridge Drive, then Custer Parkway

Drivers are asked to watch for changing lane patterns and follow the posted traffic-control signs near crews.

A long rebuild

The improvement project is rebuilding Custer from Campbell Road north to State Highway 190, replacing pavement along with water, sewer and storm drain lines. The finished street is designed to look much like the old one, with one travel lane each way, striped bike lanes and on-street parking. The work is partly paid for with money from the city's 2021 bond program.

Traffic has been shifted from one side of the road to the other in stages for months. Most recently, on Oct. 12, southbound drivers between Lookout Drive and Canyon Creek Drive were moved onto the newly built southbound roadway.

When the project began, the city put the construction time at about two years, weather permitting, and cautioned that coordinating with private utility companies can push that schedule back. A city update earlier this year said the whole project was expected to wrap up by the end of 2026.

Residents can sign up for email updates on the project at cor.net/CusterParkway.

Sources

cor.net

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