A new traffic pattern is going into effect around a busy North Utica intersection that has been the subject of driver complaints, and sometimes long wait times, especially this summer with a re-paving project underway. The intersection is Herkimer Road and Van Rensselaer, parallel to the Burger King and Big Lots plaza. The area sees plenty of commercial traffic from that lot, combined with cars coming and going to the even busier Price Chopper Plaza on the next block. A release from the city of Utica also mentions residential traffic flowing through that intersection along with city fire department response vehicles coming from Utica Fire Station 5, located just a block-up on Van Rensselaer, at the corner of School Road.