OSWEGO – Mayor William J. Barlow Jr. has announced that the city of Oswego Route 48 Slope Stabilization and Roadway Reconstruction Project is set to begin on Monday, August 21.
Route 48 will be closed to all through traffic from Munn Street to Murray Street beginning on August 21.
It will remain closed until December 2017, when the project is expected to be completed.
Route 48 will be open to local traffic only and detour signs will be appropriately posted in the area to direct all through traffic to go onto Murray Street and Munn Street, in both directions, in order to proceed through the construction zone.
“I am pleased to announce the Route 48 re-construction project is set to begin. It has been a long process, but we moved as quickly as we could in an effort to secure the maximum amount of financial assistance for this large project. I appreciate the patience of our motorists and also the residents along Munn Street and immediate area. We will do our best to keep the construction running on time so we can open the street as quickly as possible,” Mayor Barlow said.
The project will involve the stabilization of the failing slope adjacent to NYS Route 48, as well as the relocation of the roadway to the west. The roadway will be relocated approximately 12 feet to the west of its current location to further stabilize the slope and shift the roadway out of the current failure plane.
Questions regarding this road closure and/or the project may be addressed to Robert Johnson, project manager, city of Oswego Engineer’s Office, at 315-342-8153.
Motorists are urged to use caution when driving in this immediate area and to please exercise patience while this important project is completed.
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Mayor of Oswego is front page news again.. All positive for people of Oswego. Fulton mayor just doesn’t know how to run a city. Woodward is a wanna be. We have do have pot holes. Huge ones. Drive down 48 in Fulton . The road is awful. Woodward and his city counsel need to go. Time for new ideas like mayor Barlow.
Though I feel the same pain for ^^you ^^ I can only hope that Fulton really does get a Mayor to the likes of Mr. Barlow. Oswego is finally on the upswing after several years of government fleecing and good ‘ol boy politics. Mayor Barlow has streamlined City government, especially wrangling the overtime abuse within the OFD . I enjoy seeing the expanding “renaissance blocks”. I had the pleasure of meeting the Mayor as he was a guest speaker last year for a 7 habits of Highly Successful People at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Truly a good man.
Fulton needs the same streamlining and restructuring in it’s government or it going to go bankrupt. Get State and Federal dollars and quit wasting time razing Nestle’s (it’s a horrible eyesore) and RECLAIM Lake Neatahwanta!
well, Mr. Barlow hasn’t exactly followed through on his statement that the people of Oswego deserve paved roads.
The roads in the city of Oswego remain horrific.
Barlow came in last year and there was significant paving.
Now this summer, the unpaved roads become increasingly frustrating with each passing beautiful sunny day.
I get that there is that large project near the Post Office (and that has taken labor and it can only go so far etc); that whole region of Oswego is nightmarish driving. Bridge Street is bad. Side streets are falling apart.
We read about all these millions of dollars for “Downtown Revitalization” and so on and so forth … but we can’t find the dollars to get the materials together, get the machines, and pay people to operate them, to fulfill basic municipal responsibilities.
You can’t put together some kind of New Deal style public works program to get the essentials done, to get the city’s roads paved (and to create jobs)?
Unpaved roads are like an extra tax on the citizen. How much money are we all shelling out for car repairs because our cars take such an ungodly beating driving on these dilapidated roads?
Enough should be enough.
re: Anonymous…The “New Deal” was FDR’s idea. I think he got the idea from writing his initials into a freshly poured concrete sidewalk as a youngster. It was his way of saying “F”ix “D”amn “R”oads”.