Who in the state transportation department thought it would be a good idea to build a new roundabout in Cicero at the same time Interstate 81 construction narrowed highway lanes and shut down bridges? Joelle Greer, a lifelong Cicero resident, wanted to know.
“We have detours for detours some days,” she wrote in a July letter to the editor. “It’s a literal nightmare.”
Greer sent in her letter after weeks of frustrating trips along Route 31 near the high school, over the one-lane South Bay Bridge and down I-81 to Camillus, where she teaches first grade…