Although an alignment encircling the village limits was chosen within four years, work on the project was stalled due to a lack of funding.

The route heads northeastward through a residential section of the town of Lysander, paralleling the Baldwinsville village line to an intersection with NY 31 across from an Anheuser-Busch brewery.

The routes split here, with NY 631 heading northward into a commercial district as a four-lane divided highway named Willett Parkway.

[3] About 0.8 miles (1.3 km) from Willett Parkway, NY 631 intersects Sixty Road (unsigned County Route 140 or CR 140) and becomes known as Hencle Boulevard.

The route continues on through little more than woods, crossing CSX Transportation's Baldwinsville Subdivision rail line ahead of an intersection with Smokey Hollow Road (CR 229) adjacent to Lysander Park.

West of here, the highway continues through undeveloped forests as it curves to the northwest around the far northern extents of Baldwinsville.

[9] In January 1994, NYSDOT released a new, refined set of plans for the project based on community input that considered four specific alignments for the road.

Unlike the original highway proposed 20 years before, the proposed paths, referred to by the state as the Red, Yellow, Purple, and Railroad alternatives, would only run from a point just south of the village center to a location along NY 31 in either eastern Baldwinsville or just east of the village in the town of Lysander.

Although the plans to build the road were in place, construction of the highway was delayed for years due to a lack of funding.

The completion of the bypass was one of several ideas proposed by town officials to reduce the impact of the bridge closure on motorists.