Those living or traveling through Norwood will have to brace for another round of patience-challenging congestion as the city finally resumes completion of a massive sewer replacement project.

And the city put the holdup on the state’s largest utility.

The epicenter of the project will once again happen on Bainbridge Avenue, a busy arterial roadway that virtually cuts through the neighborhood, serving as a nexus for travelers in and around Norwood. There, between East 211th Street and Jerome Avenue by the Woodlawn No. 4 station (Jerome and Bainbridge avenues intersect at that point), the city will temporarily convert the two-way street into a one-way as crews with the city Department of Design and Construction (DDC) will replace old trunk water mains.

Work on this project would’ve been completed in November, but construction crews with EIC Associates, Inc., a New Jersey-based contractor, were hamstrung by Con Edison, which took a lot longer to remove its utilities.

Allan Drury, a spokesman for Con Edison, said the holdup stemmed from the city not releasing permits to relocate its electrical equipment found underneath the area under construction.

“The permits to perform that work were previously held by the city’s contractor. That contractor stopped work in the area in question in late 2017,” said Drury. “The contractor later returned to the area referenced, but only to work on the city’s underground equipment, not Con Edison electrical equipment.”

This new disruption also includes the temporary removal of two bus stops and dozens of parking spots. Work on the project will begin Oct. 7, according to a traffic message board at the foot of Bainbridge and Jerome avenue intersection near the Woodlawn No. 4 subway station.

“It’s taking up parking,” said Jasmine Meija, who was leaving a residential building just near Bainbridge Avenue and East Gun Hill Road. “It’s the only problem I have.”

Another resident found reading a newspaper just across Children’s Hospital at Montefiore took the upcoming instruction with stride, said “something needs to be done” on the construction. “Let it be done,” he said.

The first phase of the project resulted in a commuting nightmare for drivers as they were forced to take the left onto East Gun Hill Road from Bainbridge Avenue if they were looking to head north towards the Major Deegan Expressway. They were diverted to Jerome Avenue where getting to the expressway from there would often take about 30 minutes given the number of buses that stopped in front of Woodlawn No. 4 subway station, impeding traffic.

Community Board 7, which covers Norwood, was alerted to the changes and told once again that the eastbound Bx16, northbound Bx34, northbound Bx10, and BxM4 buses will also be rerouted to East Gun Hill Road instead of heading north on Bainbridge Avenue from East Gun Hill Road. Temporary bus stops will be set up on Jerome Avenue and East 212th Street and Jerome and Bainbridge avenues while work gets underway.

DDC has overseen the estimated $45 million project since it began in 2016 as a way of replacing century-old sewer pipes connected to the Croton Water Filtration Plant, which re-entered service in 2015. EIC Associates, Inc. was chosen for the contract that was executed in 2015.

The project is expected to be completed by winter 2020.