SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR) -- It has been a couple years of never-ending road construction as the I-81 Viaduct Project finds itself merging with the community grid.

Drivers on East Brighton Avenue are adjusting to the ongoing traffic from the roundabout construction to the interstate and beyond.

"Oh, it's terrible," driver Elizabeth Gordon said. "I have to go this route every day, and half the time, it takes me a half hour to get up there from Loretto."

The New York State Department of Transportation announced the construction for the ongoing project will not halt any time soon.

"What drivers see out there today is pretty much what they can expect to see this winter in terms of the traffic patterns from the roadway," Tenesha Murphy, Region 3 & I-18 Viaduct Project Public Information Officer, said. "The contractors for the I-81 Viaduct Project have already set those traffic patterns into place because we are nearing the time for some snowfall."

Some drivers do not seem to mind the road work, with hopes that the overall project will be worth the traffic when the work is completed.

"I go through both this construction and the one up at 81 and 481...up by Cicero...I've never had any problems," Mark Dobrzynski, a Pulaski resident, said. "Congested a little bit at times. But, for the scope of what they're doing...the vastness of what they're doing, it's been cake."

There are several pieces to the I-81 Viaduct Project puzzle. Every stage of construction happens at different times. But drivers can expect road construction in and around the city until the project is complete in 2028.