Drivers should expect long delays, budget extra travel time
Sedona AZ (May 7, 2019) – Those traveling between Interstate 17 and Sedona along State Route 179 will need to plan extra travel time as the highway will be narrowed to one lane between the Red Rock Ranger Station and Chapel Road so Arizona Department of Transportation crews can apply chip seal.
Beginning Monday, May 13, crews will restrict SR 179 to one lane in 3-mile segments through the Village of Oak Creek. Drivers moving through the area should expect long delays as each direction of traffic will alternate through the work zone.
Flaggers and pilot cars will provide traffic control through the work zone. Flaggers will also be on site to maintain access to businesses, communities and local streets throughout the project area.
Drivers can also consider using SR 89A and SR 260 through Cottonwood as an alternate route between I-17 and Sedona.
The project is expected to last for five consecutive days and be completed by the end of the week.
For more information on this project, visit azdot.gov/projects and click on North Central District.
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It will be best to stay off off this road
Even with signs, cones, workers and trucks people are impatient as always on this road from Bell Rock to Sedona (posted 35 they typically do up to 50..)
A landscaping truck with trailer flew past me and spraying rocks from the new roadway – now I have chips in my windshield
A beater Mercedes tailgated me until they sped around me and had to come back in quickly just to teach me a lesson for going slow -as posted- to try to keep the new surface from hitting my car too much (the mercedes cutting back in quickly threw stones on my hood and now that has many new chips