The city's resurfacing project on the FDR Drive is wrapping up a lot sooner and cheaper than expected.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that the work will be completed this week at a cost of $8.5 million.

The original price tag was $11 million.

The project also took less than six months to complete.

The mayor says that's extraordinary considering the length of road being repaved.

"Thirty-five lane miles. Would you like a visualization? It’s as if you created a road from Co-Op City in the Bronx to Tottenville in Staten Island. If you went that whole distance, a single road, that’s how far what these folks did, that’s how far it would be," De Blasio said.

The work on the FDR is part of a city plan to resurface 2,500 lane miles of road over the next 18 months.