Road closures are happening on Monday night on Virginia Street through midtown from Liberty Street to Plumb Lane.
It is part of RTC’s Preventative Maintenance Program.
The closure started at 7 p.m. on Monday and will go through 7 a.m. on Tuesday.
Crews are applying a slurry seal treatment to the road to help extend the pavement life and reduce the need for repairs in the future.
Josh MacEachern, the Public Information Officer for RTC, said, "The big kind of benefit of slurry seal treatment is that we're doing preventative maintenance, so making sure that the good roads stay good. We're using tax dollars as wisely as we possibly can by just kind of extending the life of the roadway."
They say this type of maintenance work will help the roadways last up to 30 years without needing serious repairs.
Each year, RTC takes a look at the roads that have issues to be a part of their Preventive Maintenance Program.
They want to make sure taxpayer dollars are being used as efficiently as possible and continue helping the community.
MacEachern told us, "When you look at having to do a total rebuild mill and fill, drill it all up, you know, that's a really expensive project. When it comes to taxpayer dollars, if we can do maintenance projects pretty regularly and based on the roads that we currently see have issues, that's fuel tax dollars at work."
Crews say each road chosen in their annual selection goes through a specific process to determine which has priority over others, depending on the cost of needed repairs.
MacEachern also told us, "We look at PCI, that's pavement condition index across the entire Washoe County, so that's how we kind of decide which roads need the first and best treatment right now, especially when it comes to things like, you know, shorter term treatments like slurry seals, like, not major painting, like a slight mill infill, some of that kind of stuff."
As always, crews want to remind people to be cautious when driving through construction zones to ensure everyone on the road stays safe.
