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empirestate

Quote from: doofy103 on April 21, 2015, 07:15:50 PM
Does anyone know why the ramp from the HRD NB to E. 125th st (Exit 19) is closed?

Construction is ongoing in that area, related to the Willis Avenue Bridge project. I don't know if this closure is related to that work, or a separate but adjacent project.

...And now I do: Article

Quoteand what are they doing on the Deegan Expwy up by Yankee Stadium?  Looks like there's room for another lane there.

Another construction project, upgrading the viaduct that the highway sits on alongside Bronx Terminal Market.


Buffaboy

Quote from: cl94 on April 20, 2015, 09:52:57 PM
Quote from: vdeane on April 20, 2015, 09:16:21 PM
Plus the counties do NOT want that bridge.  They are fighting Region 5 at ever turn on that.

Erie County might have the money to maintain it if they didn't maintain every flipping road south of US 20A or in the eastern border towns

I can't wait for the day when we see EC highway shields dotted around the county.
What's not to like about highways and bridges, intersections and interchanges, rails and planes?

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02 Park Ave

The Deegan should be 4 lanes northbound from the Stadium to the GWB.
C-o-H

froggie

That brings up an interesting question:  disregarding the 5 boroughs, which New York counties lack county route signage?  The only one I know of offhand is Onondaga (CR 57/Old NY 57 doesn't count since it's officially a different county route number).

Mergingtraffic

Quote from: 02 Park Ave on April 23, 2015, 09:40:02 AM
The Deegan should be 4 lanes northbound from the Stadium to the GWB.

I believe there is room, some of the side streets could be narrowed in spots.  They may have to blast some rock, land and fix grading but it could be done.  At the very least expand some of the off-ramps so traffic doesn't stack up into the mainline.  Exit 9 SB comes into mind. 

I'm surprised the DOT is fixing the HRD E 125th Street ramps, I mean, there's lots of other spots that could use a quick fix other than that spot. 
I only take pics of good looking signs. Long live non-reflective button copy!
MergingTraffic https://www.flickr.com/photos/98731835@N05/

Mergingtraffic

Also, I found this future project:

A 4th lane on I-95 NB just before the HRP.
https://www.dot.ny.gov/portal/pls/portal/MEXIS_APP.DYN_PROJECT_DETAILS.show?p_arg_names=p_pin&p_arg_values=X73127

Hopefully this will help the bottleneck there.
I only take pics of good looking signs. Long live non-reflective button copy!
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cl94

Quote from: froggie on April 23, 2015, 09:40:52 AM
That brings up an interesting question:  disregarding the 5 boroughs, which New York counties lack county route signage?  The only one I know of offhand is Onondaga (CR 57/Old NY 57 doesn't count since it's officially a different county route number).

-Nassau
-Westchester
-Niagara
-Orleans
-Monroe
-Wayne
-Ontario
-Cayuga
-Oneida
-Cortland
-Seneca
-Genesee
-Wyoming
-Erie (if you disregard the 4-5 remaining shields)

Nassau used to post and, while Erie County once had more shields, I do not know if they were present in more than a few locations.

Shields are more common in the Southern Tier, northern, and eastern parts of the state, being rare in Western New York.
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Sam

#782
Ontario renamed all the county roads to County Road XX. I guess that makes them self-signing :) Wayne and Seneca include CR XX in a corner of the blades,  but no shields.

cu2010

Clinton County doesn't sign them either, with one exception.

Franklin County doesn't use the pentagon, but rather, a green square, to sign county routes.
This is cu2010, reminding you, help control the ugly sign population, don't have your shields spayed or neutered.

vdeane

Oneida actually started using the pentagon a couple years ago.
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machias

Montgomery County doesn't use the standard marker but if you look closely, there's little tenth-type markers at an interval I have yet to determine with county route numbers.

Buffaboy

Quote from: upstatenyroads on April 26, 2015, 09:18:31 AM
Montgomery County doesn't use the standard marker but if you look closely, there's little tenth-type markers at an interval I have yet to determine with county route numbers.

Speaking of markers, I just saw this interesting video today about how to interpret the NYS markers (I've only known how to interpret the simple Interstate ones)

https://youtu.be/HJgq1_Tjy5I
What's not to like about highways and bridges, intersections and interchanges, rails and planes?

My Wikipedia county SVG maps: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Buffaboy

KEVIN_224

WOW! Awesome! Are we going to get quizzed on that later on? :)

I wonder how Connecticut would do that with a mere 8 counties? I don't know how we do the districts here.

empirestate

Quote from: Buffaboy on April 26, 2015, 05:00:49 PM
Quote from: upstatenyroads on April 26, 2015, 09:18:31 AM
Montgomery County doesn't use the standard marker but if you look closely, there's little tenth-type markers at an interval I have yet to determine with county route numbers.

Speaking of markers, I just saw this interesting video today about how to interpret the NYS markers (I've only known how to interpret the simple Interstate ones)

https://youtu.be/HJgq1_Tjy5I

You know there's a website for that, doncha? ;-)

Buffaboy

Quote from: empirestate on April 26, 2015, 10:51:42 PM
Quote from: Buffaboy on April 26, 2015, 05:00:49 PM
Quote from: upstatenyroads on April 26, 2015, 09:18:31 AM
Montgomery County doesn't use the standard marker but if you look closely, there's little tenth-type markers at an interval I have yet to determine with county route numbers.

Speaking of markers, I just saw this interesting video today about how to interpret the NYS markers (I've only known how to interpret the simple Interstate ones)

https://youtu.be/HJgq1_Tjy5I

You know there's a website for that, doncha? ;-)

Right here?

Quote from: KEVIN_224 on April 26, 2015, 10:25:31 PM
WOW! Awesome! Are we going to get quizzed on that later on? :)

I wonder how Connecticut would do that with a mere 8 counties? I don't know how we do the districts here.

Hah, I hope not...
What's not to like about highways and bridges, intersections and interchanges, rails and planes?

My Wikipedia county SVG maps: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Buffaboy

Pete from Boston

I may be late to the party here, but only last month did I notice that at the southbound Cross Bronx/Bruckner split the Cross Bronx control city is now "Newark NJ." 

It's about $&@£ing time.

I'm just going to remember my MTR rants of about fifteen years ago, and graciously tell NYSDOT "you're welcome."

ixnay

Re the little green signs, is empirestate (or buffaboy) referring to http://www.empirestateroads.com/rm/ ?

ixnay
The Washington/Baltimore/Arlington CSA has two Key Bridges, a Minnesota Avenue, and a Mannasota Avenue.

vdeane

Those are the state highway ones.  I actually have my own page on them too: http://nysroads.com/ref-markers.php

Here's the official manual: https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/design/dqab/rmm
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empirestate


Quote from: ixnay on April 28, 2015, 09:13:52 PM
Re the little green signs, is empirestate (or buffaboy) referring to http://www.empirestateroads.com/rm/ ?

ixnay

Yep, that's me! It's pretty much an antique website anymore, but it used to be the only place on the internet you could find out about this stuff. :-)


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Pete from Boston


Quote from: empirestate on April 28, 2015, 09:31:12 PM

Quote from: ixnay on April 28, 2015, 09:13:52 PM
Re the little green signs, is empirestate (or buffaboy) referring to http://www.empirestateroads.com/rm/ ?

ixnay

Yep, that's me! It's pretty much an antique website anymore, but it used to be the only place on the internet you could find out about this stuff. :-)

Holy crap, I used to eagerly look forward to the Interchange of the Week.  Belated thanks.

empirestate

Quote from: Pete from Boston on April 28, 2015, 09:33:16 PM

Quote from: empirestate on April 28, 2015, 09:31:12 PM

Quote from: ixnay on April 28, 2015, 09:13:52 PM
Re the little green signs, is empirestate (or buffaboy) referring to http://www.empirestateroads.com/rm/ ?

ixnay

Yep, that's me! It's pretty much an antique website anymore, but it used to be the only place on the internet you could find out about this stuff. :-)

Holy crap, I used to eagerly look forward to the Interchange of the Week.  Belated thanks.

Ah yes, when aerial imagery had to be manually downloaded and mosaicked. That site today would basically a collection of Google Maps links. ;-)

cl94

Quote from: empirestate on April 28, 2015, 09:56:23 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on April 28, 2015, 09:33:16 PM

Quote from: empirestate on April 28, 2015, 09:31:12 PM

Quote from: ixnay on April 28, 2015, 09:13:52 PM
Re the little green signs, is empirestate (or buffaboy) referring to http://www.empirestateroads.com/rm/ ?

ixnay

Yep, that's me! It's pretty much an antique website anymore, but it used to be the only place on the internet you could find out about this stuff. :-)

Holy crap, I used to eagerly look forward to the Interchange of the Week.  Belated thanks.

Ah yes, when aerial imagery had to be manually downloaded and mosaicked. That site today would basically a collection of Google Maps links. ;-)

I love your site. Still the best New York-oriented page out there.
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empirestate

Quote from: vdeane on April 28, 2015, 09:26:45 PM
Those are the state highway ones.  I actually have my own page on them too: http://nysroads.com/ref-markers.php

Here's the official manual: https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/design/dqab/rmm

Same basic source I used; although I had to order a hard copy of it.

My write-up on the Monroe County markers is here: http://www.empirestateroads.com/cr/monroemark.html

And a complete official list of these markers is here: https://www.monroecounty.gov/Image/MCBIBookWebVersion2013.pdf

Quote from: cl94 on April 28, 2015, 11:04:47 PM
I love your site. Still the best New York-oriented page out there.

*blush* :-)

I am glad people still find it informative. I turned down an offer once to sell the domain name, so at least that's not for nothing. Unfortunately I really don't work on it anymore, except that I did finally compile the Nassau County highway listing a few years ago, thus filling probably the biggest outstanding informational hole on the site (I still haven't found a county highway map of any validity, so I made my own out of NYSDOT topo quads):
http://www.empirestateroads.com/cr/crnassau.html

machias

Quote from: cl94 on April 28, 2015, 11:04:47 PM
Quote from: empirestate on April 28, 2015, 09:56:23 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on April 28, 2015, 09:33:16 PM

Quote from: empirestate on April 28, 2015, 09:31:12 PM

Quote from: ixnay on April 28, 2015, 09:13:52 PM
Re the little green signs, is empirestate (or buffaboy) referring to http://www.empirestateroads.com/rm/ ?

ixnay

Yep, that's me! It's pretty much an antique website anymore, but it used to be the only place on the internet you could find out about this stuff. :-)

Holy crap, I used to eagerly look forward to the Interchange of the Week.  Belated thanks.

Ah yes, when aerial imagery had to be manually downloaded and mosaicked. That site today would basically a collection of Google Maps links. ;-)

I love your site. Still the best New York-oriented page out there.

Well!  :)

vdeane

Quote from: empirestate on April 29, 2015, 09:27:02 AM
I am glad people still find it informative. I turned down an offer once to sell the domain name, so at least that's not for nothing. Unfortunately I really don't work on it anymore, except that I did finally compile the Nassau County highway listing a few years ago, thus filling probably the biggest outstanding informational hole on the site (I still haven't found a county highway map of any validity, so I made my own out of NYSDOT topo quads):
http://www.empirestateroads.com/cr/crnassau.html
Hmm... makes me wonder if I should create county/reference route lists after all.  Where did you go for county route data?  I imagine most of it can be found on the NYSDOT highway inventory.
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