California
A 16-mile backup greets Southern California motorists returning from Las Vegas
Motorists returning to Southern California after a Thanksgiving weekend in Las Vegas had nothing however dangerous luck Sunday as visitors on the primary route throughout the Nevada border backed up for 16 miles.
“Heavy visitors to California,” the Regional Transportation Fee of Southern Nevada tweeted at 11:30 a.m. “Put together for lengthy delays.”
The bottleneck on Interstate 15 began simply south of Primm on the Nevada aspect of the border and added about an hour to the drive from Las Vegas to Ontario, Calif., mentioned Carmen Perkins, a visitors engineering technician for the fee.
“That’s really typical of Thanksgiving weekend visitors,” Perkins mentioned, including {that a} related crawl gripped the southbound stretch of the interstate Saturday.
The fee web site had urged motorists to keep away from the route on each days.