New York State Route 13

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

NY Route 13

Length:

152.61 mi^[1] (245.6 km)

Formed:

Prior to 1930

South end:

I-86/NY 17 in Horseheads

Major
junctions:

US 11 in Cortland

I-81 in Cortland

US 20 in Cazenovia

I-90/Thruway in Canastota

I-81 in Pulaski

North end:

NY 3 in Port Ontario

Counties:

Chemung, Schuyler, Tompkins, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Oswego

New York State Routes
< NY 12F		NY 13A >

New York State Route 13 is a 155 mile (249 km) long New York State route that runs mainly north and south between New York State Route 17 (future Interstate 86) in Horseheads and New York State Route 3 west of Pulaski.

1 Route description
2 Communities along the route
3 Major intersections
4 History
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Route description

This section is a stub. You can help by expanding it.

NY 13 intersects with Interstate 81 at Cortland and Interstate 90, the New York State Thruway, in Canastota. NY 13 takes a looping route between Cortland and Pulaski that may be avoided by using Interstate 81.

The most heavily traveled section of the route is the 50 mile (90 km) northeast/southwest section between Horseheads and Cortland, servicing Ithaca. At one point it was proposed to convert this part of NY 13 into an expressway, however this plan quickly fell out of favor with local residents.

NY 13 is co-signed with New York State Route 34 and New York State Route 96 between Newfield and Ithaca; New York State Route 38 briefly in the village of Dryden; U.S. Route 11 and New York State Route 41 briefly within the city of Cortland; New York State Route 80 between Sheds and New Woodstock; New York State Route 5 between Chittenango and Canastota; New York State Route 49 for a few miles in Oneida County, and New York State Route 69 for one block in the Village of Camden.

[edit] Communities along the route

Principal communities along NY 13:

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile	Road(s)	Notes
Chemung	Horseheads	0.0	I-86/NY 17	Exit 54 (NY 17/I-86). Southern terminus.
Chemung	Veteran	2.8	NY 223	Western terminus of NY 223.
Schuyler	Cayuta	11.7	NY 224
Tompkins	Ithaca	23.6	NY 34 NY 96 West Danby Rd.	Southern terminus of triplex.
		24.1	NY 327 Enfield Falls Rd.	Southern terminus of NY 327.
		25.2	NY 13A Five Mile Dr.	Southern terminus of NY 13A.
	Ithaca	25.3	NY 79 East Green St.	NY 79 joins the triplex, now a quadruplex.
		25.4	NY 79 West Seneca St.	Northern terminus of NY 13/NY 34/NY 79/NY 96 quadruplex.
		25.5	NY 96 NY 89 West State St.	Northern terminus of NY 13/NY 34/NY 96 triplex. Southern terminus of NY 89.
	Ithaca	27.1	NY 34 East Shore Rd.	Northern terminus of duplex.
	Dryden	33.2	NY 366	Western terminus of duplex.
	Dryden	34.4	NY 366	Eastern terminus of duplex.
	Dryden	39.l	NY 38	Southern terminus of duplex.
		39.l	NY 392	Western terminus of NY 392.
		39.6	NY 38	Northern terminus of duplex.
Cortland	Cortlandville	46.6	NY 281	Southern terminus of NY 281.
	Cortland	48.7	NY 215	Northern terminus of NY 215.
		49.1	US 11 NY 41
		49.4	US 11 NY 41
		49.4	NY 222	Eastern terminus of NY 222.
		49.6	I-81	Exit 11 (I-81).
	Truxton	60.2	NY 91
Madison	DeRuyter	73.6	NY 80	Southern terminus of duplex.
	Cazenovia	77.0	NY 80	Northern terminus of duplex.
	Cazenovia	83.0	US 20
	Cazenovia	83.6	US 20
	Chittenango	92.8	NY 5
	Canastota	99.4	NY 5
	Canastota	100.9	I-90/Thruway	Exit 34 (I-90/Thruway).
	Oneida Valley	106.0	NY 31
Oneida	Vienna	111.6	NY 49
	Vienna	113.1	NY 49
	Camden	121.0	NY 69
	Camden	121.1	NY 69
Oswego	Williamstown	130.9	NY 183	Northern terminus of NY 183.
	Williamstown	134.0	NY 104	Eastern terminus of NY 104.
	Pulaski	146.0	I-81	Exit 36 (I-81).
	Pulaski	146.8	US 11
	Port Ontario	152.6	NY 3	Northern terminus.

Legend
Crossing, no access	Concurrency termini	Decommissioned	Unconstructed	Closed

[edit] History

[edit] Original southern terminus

NY 13 once extended as far south as U.S. Route 15 in the Town of Lindley in Steuben County, according to road maps from the 1930s. Instead of continuing south at the intersection with New York State Route 223 northwest of Horseheads, NY 13 turned west onto Old Ithaca Road and followed the street to South Main Street in downtown Horseheads. NY 13 then ran south along South Main into Elmira, where the road becomes Lake Road and, eventually Lake Street. At Church Street, then bi-directional and now only westbound New York State Route 352, NY 13 turned west to West Elmira, where NY 13 turned west onto the right-of-way of present-day New York State Route 225.

NY 13 continued on NY 225 to Caton, where NY 13 continued west on what is now County Route 120, remaining on the road to US 15 in Lindley.

[edit] Truncation

By the 1950s, the route was truncated to the intersection of Lake Street and Church Street in downtown Elmira. Eventually, by the mid-1950s, NY 13 no longer entered Elmira, continuing south from NY 223 instead along a new road leading to a newly-constructed interchange with New York State Route 17.

[edit] Sullivanville Dam

In the mid-1980s, the Sullivanville Dam project forced a portion of the route to be rerouted northeast of Horseheads. Due to the elevated water level caused by the dam, the route had to be moved to higher ground west of the hamlet of Sullivanville in the Town of Veteran. A section of the old highway remains under the impounded water. Another section north of the dam exists as an extension of Sullivanville Road.

[edit] Routing through Ithaca

The route through Ithaca has changed over the years. NY 13 once followed what today is Spencer Road, Green Street (New York State Route 79), and New York State Route 366 along the edge of the Cornell University campus before continuing to Dryden.

Historically, Meadow Street carried NY 13 traffic in both directions through part of Ithaca; however, in the late 1990s, southbound traffic was diverted to Fulton Street for a ten block section.

[edit] Potential future extension

As part of the "Horseheads Bypass" project to upgrade NY 17 to Interstate standards, the southern terminus of NY 13 may be moved a short distance west to New York State Route 14 in Horseheads when the project is complete. At least one "NY 13 South" sign assembly is exposed along the westbound frontage road leading from exit 54 (NY 13). Several similarly shaped signs on similar sign assemblies are covered along the route.