NYSDOT Rolling Into The Great New York State Fair with Replica Business Loop 81 Roundabout at its New Home in The Science and Industry Building
Five Exhibits to be on Display at this Year’s Extravaganza, including Relocated I-81 Community Outreach Center, Interactive Traffic Display, Live School Bus Inspections, Recruitment Teams and a Life-Sized Snowblower Listen to the Latest DOT POD Podcast Featuring New State Fair Director Julie LaFave and DOT’s Amber Stevens Here Floor Map of the I-81 Roundabout to be Constructed on Van Buren Street Attached State Department of Transportation Commissioner Marie Therese Dominguez today announced that the Department will be taking up an entire wing of the Science and Industry Building at the 2024 Great New York State Fair, which takes place in Syracuse from Wednesday, August 21 through Monday, September 2. This one-stop transportation shop featuring five exhibits, including a scaled-down I-81 Viaduct Project roundabout, will provide thousands of fairgoers with an opportunity to learn more about the Department of Transportation, its mission and its people, and the many ways the Department works to enhance safety for all New Yorkers. Newly-appointed State Fair Director Julie LaFave recently sat down for an interview for the “DOT POD” podcast with co-hosts Josh Heller and Anya Kardos to talk about what’s new and Great at this year’s Fair as well as the coordination involved in putting on such a massive event, while NYSDOT’s Emergency Management Coordinator Amber Stevens spoke about the Department’s coordinating role in the Traffic Management Command Post and participation with partners in the Joint Operations Center at the Fair. Josh and Anya will be podcasting live from the Fairgrounds periodically during the 13-day Fair. The 30-minute podcast is available here. “The Great New York State Fair is the largest extravaganza of agriculture, education and entertainment in all of upstate New York, and the Department of Transportation us enormously proud of the role we play annually as exhibitors and as part of the overall traffic safety plan for the State Fair,” Commissioner Dominguez said. “The Department of Transportation has a huge presence at the Fair, from the recently constructed Orange Lot to the new Highway Workers Memorial, and we are very excited to utilize an entire wing of the Science and Industry Building for our engaging and interactive exhibits which highlight projects, people and the diversity of work we undertake as part of our important safety mission. Fairgoers won’t believe what we have in store for them this year!” NYSDOT will be home to five exhibits in the Science and Industry Building at the 2024 Great New York State Fair, including: The Department also encourages fairgoers to visit the permanent Highway Workers Memorial, officially unveiled by Governor Hochul in August 2021 andlocated near the midway entrance and west of the Horticulture Building on the fairgrounds. The memorial honors all transportation workers killed while performing their job duties on or near New York’s thousands of miles of highways, including State Department of Transportation and Thruway Authority employees, municipal highway workers, contractors, consultants and towing service employees.
