New York State Route 13

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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
Numbered highways in New York
< NY 12F NY 13A >
Interstates - U.S. Routes - State Routes

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.

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[edit] Route description

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 Village of Horseheads 0.0 I-86/NY 17 Exit 54 (NY 17/I-86). Southern terminus.
Veteran 2.8 NY 223 Western terminus of NY 223.
Schuyler Cayuta 11.7 NY 224  
Tompkins Town of Ithaca 23.6 NY 34
NY 96
West Danby Rd.		 Southern terminus of concurrency.
24.1 NY 327
Enfield Falls Rd.		 Southern terminus of NY 327.
25.2 NY 13A
Five Mile Dr.		 Southern terminus of NY 13A.
City of Ithaca 25.3
NY 79
East Green St.		 NY 79 joins the concurrency.
25.4
NY 79
West Seneca St.		 Northern terminus of NY 13/NY 34/NY 79/NY 96 concurrency.
25.5 NY 96
NY 89
West State St.		 Northern terminus of NY 13/NY 34/NY 96 concurrency. Southern terminus of NY 89.
Town of Ithaca 27.1 NY 34
East Shore Rd.		 Northern terminus of concurrency.
Town of Dryden 33.2 NY 366 Western terminus of concurrency.
34.4 NY 366 Eastern terminus of concurrency.
Village of Dryden 39.l NY 38 Southern terminus of concurrency.
39.l NY 392 Western terminus of NY 392.
39.6 NY 38 Northern terminus of concurrency.
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 Village of DeRuyter 73.6 NY 80 Southern terminus of concurrency.
Town of Cazenovia 77.0 NY 80 Northern terminus of concurrency.
Village of Cazenovia 83.0 US 20  
83.6 US 20  
Chittenango 92.8 NY 5  
Canastota 99.4 NY 5  
100.9 I-90/Thruway Exit 34 (I-90/Thruway).
Oneida Valley 106.0 NY 31  
Oneida Vienna 111.6 NY 49  
113.1 NY 49  
Village of Camden 121.0 NY 69  
121.1 NY 69  
Oswego Williamstown 130.9 NY 183 Northern terminus of NY 183.
134.0 NY 104 Eastern terminus of NY 104.
Pulaski 146.0 I-81 Exit 36 (I-81).
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.

[edit] References

  1. ^ New York Routes - New York State Route 13

[edit] External links

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