Bumpy road ahead for Victor

While construction crews replace the Route 96 bridge on the east side of Victor, local drivers and residents are taking on the heavy traffic burden.

Tom Evarts is one of those people. He’s lived on McMahon Road for the past 35 years. He's never paid much attention to the traffic, and he didn’t even know what the speed limit is!

“There's never been a sign on the road since I've lived here,” Evarts said.

But the steady flow of cars going up and down his road did catch his eye Monday morning. The new detour around the bridge construction could force more than 16,000 cars to drive down Plastermill and McMahon roads each day.

“It's going to be hard coming out of the driveway coming in and coming out just due to the traffic,” he said.

Some local drivers taking the long way home Monday weren’t too excited about the round-about route either.

Jen Starks lives on Brace Road just to the East of the construction. To go into the Village of Victor, she has to head east on Route 96, North on McMahon Road then back west on Plastermill Road.

“I think this detour tour is only going to add three to five minutes,” Starks said. “It's just inconvenient.”

And she says the drive will be more inconvenient during the morning and evening commute.

Others say they won't even notice the detour most of the time.

“I don't even live on this side of the town so today it interferes, but normally it doesn't,” said Beth Kravetz of Victor.

Whether the detour is an inconvenience or not, the construction will only last six months, right?

 “(It’s) only six months at the end, but that's a lot of traffic day and night,” Evarts said, adding that all the cars could take a toll on the road.

Construction is expected to be complete by September.