Bennetts Corners Road bridge over Thruway closes for repairs Monday
One of Onondaga County’s key Thruway crossings closes Monday as crews repair bridge joints. A signed detour will carry Bennetts Corners Road traffic for several weeks.
The Bennetts Corners Road bridge over I-90 in Onondaga County will shut down to traffic Monday, July 20, sending drivers onto a signed detour while Thruway crews work on the bridge joints. The New York State Thruway Authority will close the span at milepost 294.52, between Exit 39, the Syracuse-Fulton-I-690-NY Route 690 access, and Exit 40, the Watertown access area.
Anyone making that crossing will have to follow the posted detour until the work is finished. The shutdown is expected to last about four weeks, with weather able to change the schedule.
The bridge work is limited to the span itself, not a long stretch of the Thruway, but the crossing sits on a route that links neighborhood and through traffic around Syracuse’s western side. Drivers headed between the Exit 39 and Exit 40 area should build in extra time while the bridge is out of service, especially during peak commuting hours when local traffic can stack up on nearby roads feeding the detour.
HistoricBridges.org lists the structure as Bennetts Corners Road Bridge, Bridge E-186, with documentation dates of Jan. 14, 2007, and July 4, 2020.
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