The Syracuse Common Council has approved changes to two busy streets on the Syracuse University campus. The council is also preparing for a potential vote on requiring a certain percentage of contract workers to be hired from within the city. The council chambers were packed Monday afternoon with striking Verizon workers who cheered when the council passed a resolution supporting their protesting efforts against outsourcing and other issues. The council also passed a reconfiguration of Waverly and Comstock avenues on the Syracuse University campus as the university goes through with plans to turn a road used for buses and delivery trucks into a pedestrian walkway. The move is expected to increase traffic along Waverly Avenue, already a busy street, that is likely to see more buildings constructed on it in the near future. Councilor Nader Maroun said big changes are coming to the university landscape over the next ten years. He acknowledged some faculty are opposed to this plan. “I hope
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