STUDY SEEKS WAYS TO EASE THRUWAY TRAFFIC WOES.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer

The state will spend $725,000 in an effort to figure out how to ease escalating traffic problems on Capital Region Thruway interchanges, including the possibility of creating a new ``flyover'' ramp at Exit 24 to connect the Thruway more directly with the Northway.

The authority's two-member board approved a $725,000 contract with the engineering firm Clough, Harbour & Associates on Monday to analyze Thruway traffic from Exit 21A south of Selkirk, where the Thruway branches off to the Berkshire Spur, to Exit 25A in Rotterdam, where the Thruway meets Interstate 88.

Clough Harbour also will be asked to recommend …