Syracuse, N.Y. — There’s more road work coming to downtown Syracuse’s roads this summer. A lot more. And the traffic disruptions won’t be over any time soon.
Next week, the city will start paving Clinton Street. That’s in addition to current work on South Warren Street, South Salina Street and Fayette Street.
It’s all part of a two-season-long project that will leave downtown under construction, to some degree, for the rest of this year. By 2022, though, much of downtown will have new streets, curbs and, in some places, sidewalk corners.
Some of the construction downtown is part of a $9.7 million state- and federally-funded project to fix some of downtown’s roads and the water infrastructure below them.
That money paid for Salina Street reconstruction and will also be used to replace State Street from Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard to James Street this year.
That’s in addition to another $6.8 million federally funded project has been in the works for at least two years. That project covers the upcoming construction starting next week.
On Monday, June 21, the city will start milling and paving Clinton Street between West Genesee and Jefferson Streets.
Other downtown streets to be reconstructed this summer include Jefferson Street between Clinton and Montgomery Streets, Montgomery Street between Erie Boulevard and Adams Street, and all of South Warren Street.
On June 1, the city began replacing the water mains beneath South Salina Street between Jefferson and Fayette Streets. Paving will start there after that work is done.
The downtown reconstruction is expected to last until late December.
City officials said to expect continued delays in traffic downtown, especially during rush hour, and to use alternate routes when possible.
