MAHONING COUNTY, Ohio - Another busy crossroads in Mahoning County will soon be transformed into a traffic round-a-bout.

After years of planning, the project at Five Points on Western Reserve Road will be completed this year. 

The roundabout will allow for continuous traffic flow instead of stop-and-go from five directions. County Engineer Pat Ginnetti said traffic would be maintained during construction.

"There are areas that we're going to have to close portions of roads to get the project built. Like any construction project, you're going to have a temporary inconvenience, but once it's done, it will be much, much better," Ginnetti said. 

No official start date has been set, but Ginnetti says the project, which is 100 percent federally funded, will be completed before year's end.