Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al español.

After three years of lane closures, detours and notorious “Dropicana” headaches, Las Vegas drivers can finally exhale. State and federal officials declared the $382 million rebuild of the I-15 Tropicana interchange officially finished Tuesday morning, cutting a ribbon where the work had snarled traffic since 2022.

Construction on the project got underway in late May 2022, while major demolition and reconstruction activities picked up momentum in early 2023. Throughout, the area has endured traffic restrictions and significant road closures.

Tracy Larkin Thomason, director of the Nevada Department of Transportation, noted that “Dropicana,” the unique name for the project, involved work that included construction crews “carefully” de

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