This is a rendering of the boulevard as it passes by University Hospital.
The state DOT is out with its latest plan to replace the I-81 viaduct in Syracuse, and it reaffirms their commitment to a community grid. The draft environmental impact statement or DEIS includes some changes from the preliminary draft introduced a little over two years ago. Project director Mark Frechette says one of changes is a large roundabout at Martin Luther King Drive, instead of an exit ramp. He says it’s intended to slow traffic coming from the south. They re coming 65 MPH, so it s very important that we re reducing them down. This is a real traffic calming measure, a lot of signage Roundabout coming up to really get people to recognize they re no longer on a high-speed freeway; they re heading to downtown.