A ceremonial ground-breaking Tuesday kicked off the $5 million project to expand the Riverside traffic circle and turn it into a state-of the art, two-lane roundabout. READ
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You may not have noticed it, but work on the proposed expansion of the Riverside traffic circle has already begun, according to Bill Hillman, the chief engineer for the Suffolk County Department of Public Works. READ
The Suffolk County Legislature voted Wednesday to appropriate $4 million to begin construction of the expanded Riverside traffic circle in 2017, and the county’s capital budget also now includes another $1 million toward that project. READ
Paving work on Flanders Road is scheduled to start Sunday night, according a state Department of Transportation press release.
The Riverside traffic circle is expected to be reconfigured, though it’s not sure when. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file)
Funding that had been slated to reconfigure the Riverside traffic circle is now in danger of being diverted next year. But a movement is afoot to keep that money in place.
The infrastructure project is one that some say is critical to the hamlet’s future, particularly at a time when other efforts are in the works to improve quality of life in the economically distressed area of Southampton Town. (more…)
The Route 24 traffic circle in Riverside. (Credit: Tim Gannon, file)
A proposal to swap land between Southampton Town and Suffolk County in order to facilitate the redesign of the Riverside traffic circle will go to voters this fall. (more…)