New York State Route 417
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| Overall length: | 104.20 mi. / 167.66 km |
| Opening: | 1970 |
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 I-86 / NY 17 in Salamanca
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| End point: |
 NY 15 in Erwin
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| Counties: |
Cattaraugus County Allegany County Steuben County |
New York State Route 417 is a 167.66 km long trunk road in the part of the state known as the Southern Tier . It is the longest of several State Highway in New York that were once part of New York State Route 17 were before the Southern Tier Expressway was built. The line is the westernmost branch of today's State Route 17. It comes at one point only 30 m from the border between the states of New York and Pennsylvania .
State Route 417 is one of the longest routes in New York with a three-digit route number.
Route description
Cattaraugus County
To the west, NY 417 begins at an exit off Interstate 86 / New York State Route 17 just west of the City of Salamanca in Cattaraugus County . New York State Route 353 ends at an intersection with NY 417 and a little further east, NY 417 and US Highway 219 overlap for a few kilometers before the latter branches off south towards Bradford , Pennsylvania. NY 417 then follows the Allegany River and the freeway corridor to a point west of the Village of Allegany , where the road is indirectly connected to the freeway and then leads to Olean , the largest town on the route. There the State Route intersects with New York State Route 16 .
NY 417 passes through the eastern edge of Olean and then pivots southwest, away from the freeway corridor , and continues to follow the river into the Village of Portville , where the street briefly overlaps New York State Route 305 . After crossing the small town, NY 417 continues in a south-easterly direction into Allegany County .
Allegany County
There, NY 417 in the small hamlet of Ceres is approaching the state border with Pennsylvania enough to form the de facto northern terminus of Pennsylvania Route 44 .
The route then bends to the northeast and after a few kilometers reaches the Bolivar where New York State Route 275 branches off to the north and NY 417 returns to a more easterly direction, to Wellsville , through its center for a short distance NY 417 together with New York State Route 19 runs along the Genesee River .
Outside the village, the section begins through a narrow and picturesque valley along Dyke Creek to Andover , where New York State Route 21 begins its long journey to the north of the state. Three kilometers east of the village it reaches Steuben County .
Steuben County
NY 417 climbs on and on, reaching the highest point on the route at West Greenwood . Before NY 16 was relocated, this was the highest point on a state route in the west and center of the state at around 700 m. The road then falls down to Greenwood, where it intersects with New York State Route 248 .
In Jasper , NY 417 briefly overlaps with New York State Route 36 before it meanders to the Canisteo River valley and the Village of Addison , where the now defunct New York State Route 432 once ended. From there, a straight, well-maintained section leads to the eastern terminus of NY 417 on US Highway 15 .
history
Much of today's Route 417 was part of Route 17 in 1924, but the route between Olean and Wellsville and between Andover and Jasper was not a numbered trunk road. When renumbering in 1930, the route from NY 17 was relocated between Salamanca and Corning. It then corresponded to today's NY 417.
NY 417 was originally assigned for a shorter street in Otsego County near Otego . As the Southern Tier Expressway neared completion, sections of the former two-lane NY 17 were rededicated in sections to NY 417, initially in 1970 between Steamburg and Salamanca in Chautauqua County . Ironically, this first section is no longer part of NY 417 as traffic on this street has been suspended within the Allegany Reservation .
In 1980 NY 417 had completely replaced the NY 17 on the current route between Allegany and Corning . The route was extended west to its current terminus in Salamanca between 1980 and 1989. Originally, the eastern end point was in Painted Post, with the section between today's end point in Gang Mills and Painted Post overlapping with NY 15. This overlap was later abandoned.
The former section of the NY 417 from Steamburg to Salamanca is now listed as New York State Route 951T , an unmarked reference route. Physically the road is still there, but it is partially closed due to the possibility of flooding the road when the water level in the Allegheny Reservoir is high . Only two short sections are freely navigable, a 750 m long stump east of the intersection with I-86, NY 17 and NY 394 in Cold Spring and the eastern, 5.7 km long section that goes west from the City of Salamanca leads.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Traffic Data Report - NY 305 to NY 427 (PDF) NYSDOT . July 16, 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
- ↑ New York's main highways designated by Numbers (English) . In: New York Times , December 21, 1924, pp. XX9.
- ^ Leon A. Dickinson: New Signs for State Highways (English) . In: New York Times , Jan 12, 1930, p. 136.
- ^ A b New York Routes - New York State Route 417 ( English ) Retrieved June 12, 2009.
- ↑ Official Description of Touring Routes in New York State ( English , PDF; 4.9 MB) State of New York Department of Transportation . January 1, 1970. Retrieved November 2, 2007.
- ^ A b Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Official Transportation Map ( English , PDF) Pennsylvania Department of Transportation . 1980. Retrieved June 12, 2009.
- ^ A b Pennsylvania Official Transportation Map . Pennsylvania Department of Transportation . 1989. Retrieved September 15, 2007.
- ↑ Traffic Data Report - NY 908F to NY 953B ( English , PDF) NYSDOT . July 16, 2007. Retrieved June 12, 2009.