$4 million highway improvement project underway on Route 219, Route 5

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A $4 million freeway improvement job is starting up in Western New York.

The New York Condition Division of Transportation announced Monday that development is getting underway to mill and resurface Route 219 in Boston, Hamburg and Orchard Park, as properly as on Route 5 in Buffalo.

The get the job done on Route 219 involves the milling and resurfacing of 4.8 miles of pavement from Route 391 to the Duerr Street overpass. Milled-in audible roadway delineators and pavement striping will be replaced as nicely. In addition, the New York Point out Division of Transportation says the conclusion sections of a big culver on Route 219 will also be replaced.

As for Route 5, milling and resurfacing will acquire location on .3 miles of pavement in the area of the Tifft Road Bridge. Similar as the Route 219 roadwork, milled-in audible roadway delineators and pavement striping will be changed on Route 5 as effectively. 

“Economic growth in the point out of New York is connected to equally the affliction and trustworthiness of the transportation infrastructure,” explained New York Condition Division of Transportation Commissioner Marie Therese Dominguez. “By advancing freeway enhancement projects like these, Governor Kathy Hochul is investing in our significant community of New York State highways to make confident they in great restore and serve our nearby residents and firms and drive our financial system forward.”    

The highway get the job done is expected to be done by the drop. 

State Senator Sean Ryan explained, “This investment in the 219 and Route 5 is fantastic news for the numerous hundreds of Western New Yorkers who employ these roadways just about every day. Completing this get the job done now will aid enhance basic safety, relieve targeted traffic, and conserve taxpayers revenue in the long run.”