New US 15 at the NY/PA border

[treichard]

For some time I've been looking for a map that shows how the new Lawrenceville bypass section of the US 15 freeway ties in with the old route near Lindley, NY or Watsons Creek Road.  I've checked out PennDOT maps and the NYSDOT site as well as the major map sites (Google, Yahoo, MS) but I haven't had any luck. Any got a map of this?

[mightyace]

The 2009 Official Pennsylvania Map shows the bypass as completed.

It's a very large and complex PDF file.

Or have you looked at that and it's not enough detail?

[treichard]

Yeah, I saw that, but it's not enough detail.

[vdeane]

I would like to see more detail as well, but that's more than I've seen anywhere else (why is it taking the mapping places so long to get this?).

[Alps]

I can tell you, it's pretty simple, as soon as it gets in NY it pares down to one lane, takes future Exit 1 and is a two-lane road until it ties straight into the old alignment.  Which isn't very far.

[treichard]

Describe future Exit 1?
Could you put some lines and markers on a Google map and share it?

[vdeane]

Are there even going to be exits south of the existing ones when the NY portion is completed?  NY already has exit numbers on the road, with no room for more in the south, so is it going to have to be renumbered?

[Alps]

Pretty sure it ties in just before Watson Creek Rd.  Interchange will probably be a diamond.  Hard to tell right now - could also be temporary.  NY 417, by the way, is/will be Exit 2, and this will be Exit 1, with nothing between.  It's consistent.

[vdeane]

I take it the Presho interchange (current exit 1) is being removed then?

[treichard]

Tim, I'm pulling some newer imagery, which should show the alignment under construction.  Can get you points off that once I get it D/Led and into Arc...

Not sure - I haven't tried the Arc viewer.  If you have access to updated imagery, could you either pick off the points I need (you know the drill) or send me a screenshot?

[Alps]

I take it the Presho interchange (current exit 1) is being removed then?

You know what, I missed that.  In that case, I'd guess there would be no exits between the border and there.

[Michael]

Sorry to revive an old topic, but Google Maps now shows the Lawrencville Bypass, and also has Street View imagery of the dead-end of the old alignment of US 15, and some spots on the new freeway.

EDIT: Doug Kerr has a good set on Flickr of the construction of the bypass.

[Dougtone]

Sorry to revive an old topic, but Google Maps now shows the Lawrencville Bypass, and also has Street View imagery of the dead-end of the old alignment of US 15, and some spots on the new freeway.

EDIT: Doug Kerr has a good set on Flickr of the construction of the bypass.

Just photos from the PA side.  I still have not uploaded the US 15 photos from New York, but I should be doing that pretty soon.

[Alps]

I also have some US 15 construction photos on my PA and NY pages...  (US 15 in NY has construction on both ends, even.)

[Michael]

I was last there in August of 2008, and I just saw supports for the Cowanesque River/Bliss Road Bridge, and some grading for the highway into NY.  I did go over the new stack at I-86 when it was being landscaped.

On a side note, I so want to get a hold of one of those US 15 shields when I-99 comes through!  It'd be even better if US 15 was duplexed with I-99 from Williamsport, but I'm not sure if that will happen.

[Dougtone]

I was last there in August of 2008, and I just saw supports for the Cowanesque River/Bliss Road Bridge, and some grading for the highway into NY.  I did go over the new stack at I-86 when it was being landscaped.

On a side note, I so want to get a hold of one of those US 15 shields when I-99 comes through!  It'd be even better if US 15 was duplexed with I-99 from Williamsport, but I'm not sure if that will happen.

My understanding is that US 15 will get truncated to Williamsport.  NY has already green-lighted I-99 to come into our state, as referenced by the reference markers at the north end of US 15 in Painted Post.

[treichard]

When I asked PennDOT Dist. 3 a few years ago  about what would happen to US 15's designation after it was upgraded, I was told US 15 will become I-99/US 15 rather than I-99 alone. 

[rickmastfan67]

Wouldn't be the first US route to end at a state border.... (US-25)

[mightyace]

Wouldn't be the first US route to end at a state border.... (US-25)

Or US-220 before the Southern Tier Expressway was built.

[Duke87]

Don't forget US 46.

[Alps]

Wouldn't be the first US route to end at a state border.... (US-25)

Or US-220 before the Southern Tier Expressway was built.

Actually, from what Doug and I found, I believe it still does end at the state line on the north side of the interchange.

[Alps]

Don't forget US 46.

US 25 and US 220 are signed from the adjacent state.  US 46, though, is not signed from either PA or NY despite coming within feet of PA and touching NY.

[PAHighways]

Wouldn't be the first US route to end at a state border.... (US-25)

Or US-220 before the Southern Tier Expressway was built.

US 309 was multiplexed with US 220 to New York in the early days of the US system.

[PAHighways]

US Route 15 in north central Pennsylvania - one of the links on my US 15 page which has construction pictures from the Lycoming-Tioga County corridor

[mightyace]

^^^

Thanks for the photos and preserving this memories of this stretch for those who of us who couldn't.