By CRAIG FREILICH

POTSDAM -- Farmer Adam Cook is concerned that one of many possible plans for a Potsdam Route 11 bypass would cut off easy access from one part of his farm to another.

A bypass idea presented by the state Department of Transportation at a Jan. 30 meeting in Canton would “dead-end” parts of the Regan Road, Cook told trustees.

“Maps show the Regan Road dead-ends on either side of the bypass and my farm is right on the end,” Cook said during the public comment period at the Potsdam Village Board of Trustees meeting on Monday night.

If that happens, he said, he would be forced to try to move some of his sizeable equipment through the village along Lawrence Avenue, down narrow Clinton Street, and Leroy Street to the May Road.

“I hope it doesn’t happen but I won’t try to stop it,” and probably couldn’t if he did try, he said.

He suggested DOT consider an overpass at Regan Road.

Cook’s farm is on Regan Road, which runs between May Road, off of state Route 56 at the Big Lots Plaza, to Lawrence Avenue, U.S. Route 11 going north from the village.

DOT officials sought public feedback in Canton Jan. 30 on bypass options around both downtown Potsdam and Canton. Several possibilities proposed in the North Country Access Improvements Study were presented at the meeting in Canton, but no plan has been selected and no funds have been allocated for actual construction.