By Adam Kramer
Both pedestrians and drivers on Jamaica Avenue between 216th and 221st streets in Queens Village can expect seven more months of fighting to get around construction workers hauling jack hammers, dust kicked up by trucks delivering water main pipes and cranes moving tons of earth.
The main shopping district on Jamaica Avenue near the Long Island Rail Road station is in the midst of a nine-month to one-year construction project that includes installing new water mains, storm sewers and sanitary sewers.
The project is designed to prevent chronic flooding, which has bedeviled southeast Queens residents for years.
