Local drivers may be excited to hear
the completion of the construction on the Elmwood Avenue Bridge has been bumped
up.
The original finish date was set for
Dec. 31, 2016 but with updated costs and a new construction schedule, the
completion date is set to be Nov. 8, 2016.
“We’re shooting for early November,”
said Dan Pafkie, spokesperson for the Department of Transportation.
This project has been going on since
early June 2015, and it is going to take a while for the bridge to be completed
according to DOT standards. It will reportedly
cost a little over $10 million for this project to be completed from start to
finish.
The goal of this project is to
reconstruct the Elmwood Avenue Bridge that runs over the Scajaquada Expressway
near SUNY Buffalo State. By Marcus Trueheart, Greg Twarozek and Kayla Yarington
