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Tuesday, June 17, 2003

WARNING! LAKE ROAD USERS!

Lake Road from Long Road to Frenchs Bay has highway workers cleaning up the sides of the road. They have NO flagmen, NO warnings except at the very ends of the road. Therefore if you enter Lake Road from one of them many side roads you will NOT know there is road work going on! Due to the many blind curves this is a very dangerous situation! I called and left messages to all the parties I could find and I talked to the State Police who said they would send someone to check it out. I don't know if this is the state or Tully who is doing this work but their lack of concern for the safety of the public AND their own workers is something to be considered.

BE CAREFUL and DRIVE SLOW if you must use Lake Road. I'll post anything else I find out.

UPDATE: The yellow highway trucks are Onondaga County trucks out of Jamesville garage.
I talked to Scott Sergeant at 4:30 and he said that the work on the shoulders was complete. He also said they would be paving one mile of the road from Rt 80 south. This brings it to the French's Bay area. There is a paint mark on the road indicating where they will stop for this year. It will take about one week and begin the first or second week of July. The paving will widen the road making it better for pedestrians and bicyclists and provide more targets for the cars that will be going faster on the new smooth road. During the work you can bypass it all by using Gatehouse and Long roads off of Rt 80.