In random conversations around town, we detect more than a little weariness with the frequent lane closures and traffic jams caused by the New York state Department of Transportation’s $2.25 billion redo of Interstate 81 through downtown Syracuse.
The glass-half-empty view is that the disruption is a pain in the you-know-what. We choose to see it as progress.
Road projects only seem to take forever. A year or two (or six) of construction pales in comparison to the decades-long life of the infrastructure those construction crews are building…