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"The next big action will be lowering Pyramid Drive," says Village of Lansing Mayor Don Hartill.  Workmen will dig out the road as much as a couple of feet with an excavator.  Hartill says 123 loads will be taken out so the road can be properly graded and enlarged to a five lane road from Triphammer Road to the Tops entrance.  "They're going to close it, period," he said.


While the road is closed shoppers will enter the Tops complex by entering the Pyramid Mall on Catherwood or Graham Roads, then coming in the back of Pyramid Drive, which will not be affected by the construction.  Hartill told the Village Trustees in their Monday meeting that he had hoped the work would be done this week, but that it would more likely be next week.  But he said the work would take two days once it is begun.  "We hope," he added.

Currently Pyramid Drive is four lanes.  It is being enlarged to five to allow for the two left turn lanes that were constructed on Triphammer Road.  The left-most lane has been blocked with traffic cones, because there is no place for it to go on Pyramid Drive.  It will be opened to traffic once this work is completed.  Hartill said there will be a left turn light on Triphammer southbound into the Cayuga Mall at that intersection.


Anticipating that the work will be disruptive to shoppers, the Mayor told the contractor, Suit-Coat, that the work must be done before the students arrive back from summer vacation.

"That is the last big action," Hartill said.  Work on sidewalks is being completed, and another one inch coat will be paved onto Triphammer Road some time before early September.  Light poles will be completed by the end of August.  "The last step is getting the street lights working," Hartill said.  "They're making good progress."   The very last step will be to plant foliage along the route.

The Mayor is planning an opening celebration in late September.  "The project won't be complete," he observed, "but that's sort of a nice time to do it."  He said he plans to invite the original design engineer who now lives in Rhode Island with his family, DOT officials and others.  The project is partially paid for with federal money.  "Getting federal funding for a village street was an interesting enterprise.  We've been at that for a decade," Hartill said.  North of the Village Triphammer Road is owned and maintained by the County, and south of the Village it is owned by the Village of Cayuga Heights.

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