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Commuters who use Paseo del Norte must survive a headache to relieve their migraine.

Mayor Martin Chavez on Monday unveiled an eight-month construction project aimed at improving the bottleneck on Paseo, quickly becoming one of the city's most used - and cursed - arterials.

Chavez said the city will begin a $750,000 project this summer along the car-choked Paseo corridor. Changes include:

The addition of a mile-long westbound lane from I-25 through Jefferson Street using the current shoulder.

The lengthening of a left-turn lane from northbound Jefferson Street onto westbound Paseo del Norte.

The addition of an extra turn lane from eastbound Paseo del Norte to southbound I-25, which will free up an extra through-lane at the light.

A right-turn lane will be added from eastbound Paseo del Norte onto southbound Jefferson Street.

Funding for the project has not been secured, though Chavez promised half from the city and hoped the state would kick in the other half in the next three or four months.

Once funds arrive, adjusting the lanes will take about eight months, said Ed Adams, the city's chief operations officer.

City officials say they do not expect their work to be the long-term answer on Paseo, the major east-west thoroughfare in the northern end of Bernalillo County. But they expressed hope it will help until a pending, federally funded project to entirely revise the Paseo del Norte/I-25 interchange is approved.

That project would cost an estimated $200 million, Chavez said, and would include flyovers.