ELMIRA, N.Y. (WENY) -- Within the next week, drivers on the Clemens Center Parkway will need to drive a bit slower than they're used to. On Tuesday, September 2, a permanent speed limit reduction will be implemented on a small stretch of the parkway.

The New York State Department of Transportation put out a travel advisory for road signs being changed in the City of Elmira next week. Those signs will be new speed limit signs indicating a permanent five-mile-per-hour reduction on half a mile of the Clemens Center Parkway.

The speed limit will go from 40 MPH to 35 MPH between East Second Street and the south end of the Chemung River Bridge.

Elmira City Mayor Dan Mandell says that, after several accidents, including a few fatalities as a result of cars hitting pedestrians, the city reache

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