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Roundabout project at Wolfs Crossing, Douglas Roads in Oswego to cause traffic closure · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Roundabout project at Wolf's Crossing Douglas Roads and Oswego to
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  Speaker 1: cause traffic closure. Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article is
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  Speaker 1: As part of the ongoing Wolf's Crossing Road and Douglas
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  Speaker 1: Road roundabout project in Oswego, Piper Glen Avenue is tentatively
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to be closed at Wolfe's Crossing Road from June
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  Speaker 1: eighth ten. Motorists are advised to use Southbury Boulevard as
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  Speaker 1: an alternate route during the closure. The closure is weather
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  Speaker 1: dependent and may change if needed. Work recently started on
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  Speaker 1: the construction of a roundabout at Wolfe's Crossing and Douglas
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  Speaker 1: Road in Oswego as part of a continuing effort to
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  Speaker 1: improve safety and ease traffic congestion along the road. Officials
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  Speaker 1: broke ground for the project during a ceremony on April seventh.
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  Speaker 1: At the September second Oswego Village Board meeting, trustees approved
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  Speaker 1: a funding agreement for the project, which is estimated to
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  Speaker 1: cost about fifteen million dollars the village. The village is
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  Speaker 1: receiving ten million, five hundred eighty three thousands, four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty nine dollars in federal funding for the project.
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  Speaker 1: As Oswego Village President Ryan Kaufman noted during the meeting,
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  Speaker 1: federal funding is paying for seventy one percent of the project.
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  Speaker 1: That's incredible, he said. Any time we can get those
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  Speaker 1: kind of figures is a very welcome day. Local funding
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  Speaker 1: in the amount of four million, two hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: one thousand, five hundred and forty one dollars will pay
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the project. This will be the
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  Speaker 1: second roundabout on Wolf's Crossing. In twenty twenty three, the
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  Speaker 1: four way intersection at Wolfe's Crossing and Harvey Road was
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  Speaker 1: replaced with Oswego's first roundabout. Wolfe's Crossing is an east
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  Speaker 1: west corridor in Oswego that spans four point five miles
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  Speaker 1: from US Route thirty four to Yola Road. The improvement
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  Speaker 1: project is divided into ten segments. The goal is to
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  Speaker 1: widen Wolf's Crossing from a two lane rural road with
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  Speaker 1: no sidewalk to a five lane urban cross section. Noting
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  Speaker 1: the amount of traffic at Wolf's Crossing and Douglas Road,
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  Speaker 1: Village Trusty Rochelle Koenig is glad the intersection is getting improved.
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  Speaker 1: We are addressing one of the worst intersections on Wolf's
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  Speaker 1: crossing right now, she said.