The traffic setup will be the same as it was in the spring, when crews transformed Main Street to a one-way thoroughfare from the junction of state Route 73 and 86 (top of Mill Hill) to Brewster Park at the corner of Saranac Avenue. Parkside Drive will be one-way from the post office to Morningside Drive.

“The detour was not originally intended to be reinstated this fall,” Breen wrote in an email. “However, crews ended up unable to complete some work on Main Street proper during high-traffic months. This has necessitated the return of the detour this fall.”

The plan, which is weather-dependent, calls for the Main Street work to wrap up by the end of September, when two-way traffic is expected to be reinstated, according to Breen.

The traffic light at the corner of Wesvalley Road and Saranac Avenue, which was turned on in the spring and stayed on during the summer, will remain. However, the traffic light at the corner of Main Street and Olympic Drive next to the Lake Placid Conference Center, which was shut off for the summer, will be removed.

The fall work will include:

– excavation and installation of remaining sidewalks;

– installation of trench drains at bottom of Marcy Road and by the Adirondack Grand Hotel;

– raising of drainage and wastewater structures that were not completed this summer;

– final paving of Main Street, parking lots and side roads;

– and completion of final plantings and sodding.

“The hard work of the crews and patience of local vendors and the community has put this project a year ahead of schedule and greatly reduced the work to be done this fall,” Breen wrote. “The remaining project work is smaller in scope and non-disruptive.”

Over the summer, crews completed extensive sidewalk, curbing, granite work and railing installation in different areas of Main Street.

Crews also raised a number of drainage and wastewater structures and finished water services at the south end of Main Street.