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Re: New York
« Reply #25 on: August 27, 2009, 10:14:13 AM »

Didn't they just repave that area?  I-390 north of Mount Morris is just fine the way it is now.  Give the funding to the areas south of there that actually need it.
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Re: New York
« Reply #26 on: August 27, 2009, 12:48:26 PM »

Heh old 401 hell
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Re: New York
« Reply #27 on: August 27, 2009, 07:30:10 PM »

US 219 freeway expansion delayed:

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Don't expect completion of a superhighway version of Route 219 to make its way down into ski country anytime soon.

The newest section of road construction, landslide and all, has ballooned to $122 million from its original cost of $85.6 million, representing a 42 percent increase.

Cleanup work where the landslide occurred at the Town of Concord's Scoby Hill added $25 million more, and that's on top of an additional $12 million in miscellaneous overruns for the 4.2 miles of roadway that includes a double bridge spanning high above Cattaraugus Creek.

The price tag for the next 3.7-mile section is estimated at about $72 million, but bidding of the project has been delayed for two years because of questions concerning the environmental impact on wetlands.

And it will be at least a year before motorists will be able to bypass Springville at Route 39 on the newest section and drive into Cattaraugus County's Town of Ashford, where they will exit back onto existing 219 at Peters Road.

This latest stretch of north-south, four-lane expressway was supposed to open in December.

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/772997.html
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Re: New York
« Reply #28 on: August 28, 2009, 03:27:37 PM »

More New York BS. God forbid we actually build a nice road for once without delays and chickens**t studies.
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Re: New York
« Reply #29 on: August 28, 2009, 04:10:54 PM »

Yeah. This state can't accomplish 219, imagine what'll happen if they go ahead with the Northern Tier (Rooftop) Expressway from 81 to 87.
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Re: New York
« Reply #30 on: August 28, 2009, 04:18:00 PM »

Yeah, I'm certainly not holding my breath on that one. :-P
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Re: New York
« Reply #31 on: August 28, 2009, 04:20:57 PM »

Next they'll turn NY 12 into the Chenango Expressway, (which serves a good reason to swap NY 320 to Chenango County), and then 104 into the Ridge Expressway,

it'll be a never ending spree
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Re: New York
« Reply #32 on: February 07, 2011, 07:16:41 AM »

Here's a blog post that includes a video of the apparently-new roundabout at US 9/NY 9L/NY 32 in Glens Falls.
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Re: New York
« Reply #33 on: February 16, 2012, 01:24:06 PM »

Found a Clearview guide sign along the Whitestone Expressway southbound on GSV today ahead of Exit 15.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.787308,-73.821999&spn=0.000016,0.007113&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.787435,-73.824007&panoid=QbutMwcL0lIMv7r3R9cOCw&cbp=12,188.21,,0,7.16

This a NYC thing, or just a random exception?

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Re: New York
« Reply #34 on: February 16, 2012, 10:25:32 PM »

That's an NYCDOT sign.
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Re: New York
« Reply #35 on: February 17, 2012, 09:24:41 PM »

Found a Clearview guide sign along the Whitestone Expressway southbound on GSV today ahead of Exit 15.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.787308,-73.821999&spn=0.000016,0.007113&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.787435,-73.824007&panoid=QbutMwcL0lIMv7r3R9cOCw&cbp=12,188.21,,0,7.16

This a NYC thing, or just a random exception?

NYSDOT Region 2 (Utica) is starting to put Clearview signs on two-lane roads here and there, mostly down in Madison County.  There's a few along NY Route 8.

I'm anxious to see the new signs for the CR 34 / Marcy-SUNYIT Expressway interchange (formerly Edic Rd) off of Route 49 near Utica to see if they'll be in Clearview or not.

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Re: New York
« Reply #36 on: February 27, 2012, 10:26:43 PM »

Does anyone know what this concrete structure is?

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=43.153029~-77.607722&style=h&lvl=19&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

I realize this question is really old, but since I didn't see the answer mentioned: this was the interchange ramp between the Rochester subway and the Lehigh Valley RR. The building on the left, now Dinosaur BBQ, is the ex-Lehigh station (and preserved as such, to a large extent). To the right of the ramp stub is the tunnel portal where the subway descended below grade, running up to the former Erie Canal aqueduct, now the unused lower level of the Broad St. bridge (scroll north to see it).

There is still an old raceway running through the lower levels of the Rundel library building, which is there on the north side of Court St. On the east-facing view you can see the arches where this raceway empties into the Genesee River.
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Re: New York
« Reply #37 on: April 19, 2012, 08:15:38 PM »

Does anyone have any idea of why the north-south roads near Henrietta are at an angle?  It's not like there's any mountains to go around.  Here's a map link of the area I'm referring to.
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Re: New York
« Reply #38 on: April 19, 2012, 08:41:46 PM »

http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/17132/County+Plan/Monroe+County+1872/New+York/ shows how the land was divided into lots. So blame the original landowners, perhaps these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pulteney_Association
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Re: New York
« Reply #39 on: April 19, 2012, 09:08:51 PM »

Does anyone know why Hylan Boulevard and Stueben Street in Staten Island are the way they are.  Should not Hylan be Stueben and vise versa.  I am guessing that I-278 had something to do with it, but it would seem logical to not have Stueben Street at all and just call it Hylan Boulevard with the original as maybe Old Hylan Boulevard.
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Re: New York
« Reply #40 on: April 20, 2012, 12:57:04 AM »

Does anyone have any idea of why the north-south roads near Henrietta are at an angle?  It's not like there's any mountains to go around.  Here's a map link of the area I'm referring to.

Lots of the old land purchases in the Northeast were non-rectangular; the national standard of square township and range lines didn't fully take hold until much later. I would guess that the diagonal line along the eastern margins of Henrietta, Rush, and part of Brighton was located somehow in relation to the Genesee River.
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Re: New York
« Reply #41 on: April 21, 2012, 10:06:52 PM »

I like that New York allows you to go through construction sites at 55.
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Re: New York
« Reply #42 on: April 22, 2012, 12:28:10 PM »

It depends on the area.  Most 65mph roads allow work zone speed limits of 55, but not always.  On 55mph roads, work zones are typically 45.  Region 9 often doesn't post work zone speed limits at all.
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Re: New York
« Reply #43 on: April 22, 2012, 07:18:34 PM »

Did NYSDOT Region #10 really transform the Northern State Parkway-NYS 110 interchange from a cloverleaf into a diamond? Or was this just a rumor from an anonymous IP on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_York_State_Route_110&action=history
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Re: New York
« Reply #44 on: April 22, 2012, 07:36:19 PM »

Not done yet, but they're going to.

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With respect to the Wiki edit in question, it appears to be correct - Google shows a construction configuration with only one exit ramp each way. The specific configuration is temporary but the presence of only one exit each way is permanent.
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Re: New York
« Reply #45 on: April 22, 2012, 08:50:33 PM »

Ugh! Don't tell me they're eliminating the loop ramps on the L.I.E.!


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« Reply #46 on: April 23, 2012, 11:33:27 AM »

NYSDOT did the same thing to the NY 404/NY 47 (now NY 590) interchange.  My understanding is that it was done to take care of some really bad weaving.

At the Rochester road meet we even saw a car use one of the old ramps as a cut-through to his driveway.
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« Reply #47 on: April 23, 2012, 02:11:42 PM »

Yes they did, many many years ago. One of the old loop ramps is now an oddly-divided dead-end residential street. I think it was residential even when it was also a ramp!

Somewhat more recently, they also de-looped the Fairport interchange (Exit 25).
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« Reply #48 on: April 24, 2012, 07:56:22 AM »

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Ugh! Don't tell me they're eliminating the loop ramps on the L.I.E.!

Depending on which loops remain, a 6-ramp par-clo will generally operate more efficiently than a full cloverleaf, in part because there is no longer the weaving movements mentioned by deanej.
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« Reply #49 on: May 07, 2012, 07:48:19 AM »

I went over to Liverpool yesterday to pick up a computer I won on eBay, and I have a few things to report from the trip:

I saw my first yellow "YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS IN CROSSWALK" in-road sign in Elbridge.  I thought that pedestrian signs in this area weren't even made using yellow anymore.

NY 695 has all new signage north of Gerelock Road.  One thing that stuck out to me was the new I-690 West exit BGS.  The sign is closer to being a square, similar to the one on the left on the old sign bridge.  The new 690 West sign is basically identical to the old one.  The "EXIT ONLY" panel on the new sign was the first time I've seen the up/right arrow used in the "EXIT ONLY" area.  It read "EXIT [arrow] ONLY".  The BGS is also on a new sign bridge spanning the entire highway, along with a new "Gerelock Rd./EXIT ½ MILE" sign above the southbound lanes.  The mini overhead "Gerelock Rd." sign before the exit has been replaced by a ground-mounted sign.  I don't remember if the overhead "EXIT" sign at the gore was there or not.

The blue mile markers that were installed sometime around 2002 (someone correct me if I'm wrong) on NY 5, NY 695, and I-690 have been replaced with MUTCD-compliant green ones.  Street View imagery from July 2011 shows the old mile markers.

Option lanes at exit ramps and lane splits in the area have been repainted to be dotted, but they didn't remove or black out the old paint.

When we exited I-690 at John Glenn Blvd., I saw my first "sideways" added lane sign.  Just after the merge, I noticed that the railroad crossing had 8 inch lenses.

Around the intersection of John Glenn Blvd. and CR 57, there are (imo ugly) non-cutout CR 57 shields, along with directional banners that are probably half as high as they should be.  They look more like street blades than directional banners.  As an aside, I think that the the "JCT CR 57" shield on John Glenn Blvd. eastbound is way too close to the intersection.  I also saw a left turn arrow with a "LEFT TURN SIGNAL" sign.  There may be more, but I only saw one.

On the way home, I saw a VMS advertising the upcoming I-81 Challenge public meeting.
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