A stretch of road on Route 114 going from Weare into New Boston that was formerly a passing zone has been double-lined and thus now prevents passing, according to state highway officials.

The piece of road in New Boston is by an entrance to Cold Springs RV Rentals and Services at 644 N. Mast Road, said Bill Lambert of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation Traffic Division.

Lambert said the NHDOT was charged during this past winter with closing the passing lane a little further north of the one recently closed, but the work crews got confused and closed the wrong one.

The one they were supposed to close was by the entrance to Cold Springs RV’s sales office further north on Route 114 at 530 S. Stark Highway in Weare. Despite the mistake, Lambert said, the area is still officially a no passing zone and will remain that way.

“The law says with a doubleyellow line, you can’t pass,” Lambert said.

It would take too much work and create too much of a mess to grind out the double yellow lines laid down, and it would make more sense to revisit whether the area should be a passing zone or not when the lines fade away again, Lambert said. Weare resident Keith Lacasse, who commutes to Manchester for work every day, said he was baffled when he drove through the area and found it to be double-lined.

The signs indicating the end of the passing zone are still there, he said, making it confusing. He added he doesn’t see the need to eliminate the passing zone from that area, the speed limit in which it is 50 mph. “It’s a straight shot. You’ve got plenty of visual,” said Lacasse, who first noticed the new lines on Monday, Aug. 4, as he drove down Route 114.

Both Lambert and New Boston Road Agent John Riendeau said there have been enough accidents in that area to warrant the elimination of the passing zone.

Once the weather dries up and crews can get out to Cold Springs entrance to the north of the one they double-lined, they will put the double lines there too, where they initially were supposed to be, Lambert said.