In December, 2016 the Town Board of Elbridge unanimously passed a resolution calling for I-81 to maintain its current path through Syracuse.
The resolution sites concerns about truck traffic: “If Interstate 81 is not retained as an interstate highway through Syracuse, truck traffic will become a greatly increased burden for communities west of Syracuse; the Almond Street ‘boulevard’ and parallel streets in Syracuse would bear the burden of scores of thousands of additional vehicles each day, displaced by the removal of the elevated highway.