Some Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus streets well known for their potholes, rippling and deteriorated surfaces have been fixed in the first of a two-phase $500,000 project.

Extensive milling and resurfacing work totaling $150,000 was completed during the last week on some of the most problematic areas. Another $350,000 of road work is planned for a second batch of campus streets that the city hopes could be done before winter.

"We wanted to address the areas according to the needs of the campus, the most urgent being those that would affect their operations the most," said Buffalo Public Works Commissioner Steven J. Stepniak. "That is what we started to mill and overlay on Saturday."

Milling began last Friday on Carlton Street between Michigan Avenue and Ellicott Street; on Michigan between Carlton and High Street; and on High from Michigan to Ellicott. Resurfacing was completed over the weekend.

"It's not everything we needed to do, but we jumped to do phase one," City Engineer Michael J. Finn said Tuesday after the first phase of work concluded.

Two-way traffic flow was maintained through the affected areas, although there were lane restrictions.