California and Nevada officials are desperately trying to keep up with the traffic flow as well. Nevada plans call for eventually widening I-15 to three lanes in both directions from Henderson to the state line. But efforts to relieve the bottlenecks are far from completion. The CalTrans widening project won't break ground until 2002, and isn't expected to be complete for several years after that. And Nevada's widening program just finished its first stage, with the wider freeway now reaching Sloan.
Traffic seems to get worse every year.
You have six hours of people sitting in traffic, getting angry, so when they get on the open road they take stupid chances. And that's when accidents happen. A choked interstate Along I-15 the Friday before Labor Day, traffic was surprisingly light. The drive from Las Vegas to Barstow, about 155 miles, took just two and a half hours. The lanes keep them confined to the right, ensuring that the traffic keeps flowing.