{"id":317715,"date":"2026-08-10T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317715\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:22:22","slug":"east-colvin-street-closure-extended-through-wednesday-for-i-81-project-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317715\/","title":{"rendered":"East Colvin Street closure extended through Wednesday for I-81 project work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 Drivers in Syracuse will have to wait a longer for East Colvin Street to reopen as work connected to the I-81 Viaduct Project continue.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Department of Transportation says the full closure of East Colvin Street between Garfield Avenue and Moore Avenue has been extended until 6 a.m. Wednesday, August 12.<\/p>\n<p>The road was originally expected to reopen Monday morning, but the DOT crews encountered unexpected heavy rocky during excavation, requiring the closure to be extended.<\/p>\n<p>East Colvin Street remains closed to traffic in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>Eastbound drivers are being directed south on South Salina Street, south on East Brighton Avenue, east on Thurber Street and north on Comstock Avenue before returning to East Colvin Steet.<\/p>\n<p>Westbound rivers should travel south on Comstock Avenue, west on Thurber Street, north on East Brighton Avenue and north on South Salina Street before returning to East Colvin Street.<\/p>\n<p>The work is part of utility construction associated with the I-81 Viaduct Project.<\/p>\n<p>The DOT says construction is weather-dependent and the schedule could change based on conditions. Drivers are urged to slow down and use caution while traveling through work zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014 Drivers in Syracuse will have to wait a longer for East Colvin Street to reopen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-317715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}