Driving through the Desert Inn arterial tunnel will soon be a brighter, smoother experience for drivers thanks to a nearly $9.2 million improvement project.

The nearly 30-year-old east-west thoroughfare, which sees nearly 37,000 vehicles travel on it per day, according to Nevada Department of Transportation data, is amid a six-month road project that will see the addition of several LED lights, replacing the aging lights that have been in place over the nearly 30 decades.

“That stretch of roadway was completed back in 1996 … so a lot of that infrastructure, the lighting, the conduit system, all of that infrastructure is outdated,” said Jonathan Morales, senior construction management inspector for Clark County. “To a point where a lot of the materials and components have been discontinue

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