A new traffic pattern is in effect now for drivers on a Putnam County road. Rt. 35 has a new traffic pattern in effect for between 60 and 90 days while they finish a paving project. It’s the final 15-mile stretch of the new four-lane road. Traffic heading south on U.S. 35 will move onto the existing four-lane section of highway less than a mile southwest of the Buffalo Bridge. The project will make U.S. 35 a four-lane highway from Interstate 64 near Teays Valley, through Putnam and Mason counties, to the Ohio State line.