{"id":17757,"date":"2025-01-07T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/rest-area-on-i-40-in-new-mexico-closes-until-late-2025-for-20-million-reconstruction\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:21:19","slug":"rest-area-on-i-40-in-new-mexico-closes-until-late-2025-for-20-million-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/rest-area-on-i-40-in-new-mexico-closes-until-late-2025-for-20-million-reconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest area on I-40 in New Mexico closes until late 2025 for $20 million reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) announced the long-term closure of a rest area for reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, January 6, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dot.nm.gov\/blog\/2025\/01\/06\/rattlesnake-rest-area-20m-reconstruction-project-kicks-off\/\">NMDOT closed the Rattlesnake Draw Rest Area<\/a> to begin construction on $20 million worth of upgrades to the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Rattlesnake Draw Rest Area is located on I-40 (eastbound and westbound), mile marker 207 to 208 in Torrance County, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that the rest area will remain closed for 300 calendar days, reopening at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The reconstruction project will involve:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Demolition of the old facility<\/li>\n<li>Construction of new 2,850 square foot restroom facilities<\/li>\n<li>Rehabilitate Picnic Shelters<\/li>\n<li>Passenger and truck parking<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded water and sewer system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/rest-area-on-i-40-in-new-mexico-closes-until-late-2025-for-20-million-reconstruction\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) announced the long-term closure of a rest area for reconstruction. On Monday, January 6, NMDOT closed the Rattlesnake Draw Rest Area to begin construction on $20 million worth of upgrades to the facility. The Rattlesnake Draw Rest Area is located on I-40 (eastbound and westbound), mile marker 207&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}