Syracuse’s plan to revitalize a struggling neighborhood may be derailed after Senate Republicans voted to cancel unspent ...

The New York State Department of Transportation wants drivers to expect the following lane reductions along Interstate 81. They will be reduced from 7:00 p.m. to ...

Avangrid said it would invest $41 million across five projects in New York State to improve the capacity and reliability of the regional power grid. The company, a member of the Iberdrola Group ...

Some portions of I-81 were built as far back as the 1950s and 1960s, including the 1.4-mile viaduct near downtown Syracuse. The five contracts for Phase 1 of the project also new and updated bridges.

Central NY News NY awards contract to improve Interstate 81 from Destiny USA to downtown Syracuse Updated: May. 17, 2024, 7:12 a.m. | Published: May. 16, 2024, 10:27 a.m.

David Rufus was just a toddler when the bulldozers rolled into the streets of his Syracuse, New York, neighborhood in 1960. As part of the country’s interstate highways surge, city officials wanted to ...

Further contracts under the community grid plan would cover reconstruction of parts of I-690, which meets I-81 in downtown Syracuse, demolition of the viaduct, construction of Business Loop 81 and ...

The Interstate 81 viaduct in Syracuse effectively destroyed a Black neighborhood when it was built, and it has been falling apart ever since. But getting rid of it is complicated.

A New York state supreme court judge has granted project opponents’ request for a temporary restraining order to halt a $2.3-billion effort to replace the aging Interstate-81 viaduct in Syracuse ...

But there was strong support for the community grid, which would replace the viaduct that runs through the city. Interstate 481, a highway that bypasses the city, will be redesignated as I-81.

Having only the community grid, he said, would fail miserably because it would bring thousands of cars and trucks onto city streets creating gridlock, pollution, traffic accidents and would reduce ...