New York State Route 253

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NY Route 253

Length:

10.83 mi^[1] (17.43 km)

West end:

NY 383 in Scottsville

Major
junctions:

I-90 / Thruway via I-390 in Henrietta

East end:

NY 65 in Pittsford

Counties:

Monroe

Numbered highways in New York
< NY 252		NY 254 >
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 253 (NY 253) is an east-west state highway in the U.S. state of New York, covering a distance of 10 miles (17 km). The western terminus of the route is at NY 383 in Scottsville while the eastern terminus is at NY 65 in the town of Pittsford.

1 Route description
2 History
3 Major intersections
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Route description

NY 253 begins in Scottsville as Scottsville-West Henrietta Road. Just after crossing the Genesee River in West Henrietta, Scottsville-West Henrietta Road separates from NY 253 and the route becomes Erie Station Road. After 2.2 miles, NY 253 breaks from Erie Station Road, following Thruway Park Drive to the north as Erie Station Road continues to the east. Upon reaching the western end of Thruway Park Drive at NY 15, NY 253 turns north onto NY 15, forming a short one mile concurrency.

At an intersection with Lehigh Station Road, NY 253 splits from NY 15, turning east onto Lehigh Station. Shortly after resuming its east-west alignment, NY 253 interchanges with Interstate 390. To the east of I-390 near the official town center of Henrietta, NY 253 crosses over NY 15A, the last state route it intersects before approaching Route 65 at its eastern terminus in Pittsford.

[edit] History

The reach of NY 253 across Monroe County was much larger prior to 1983 as, until this time, NY 253 continued north from its current eastern terminus to the town of Penfield. NY 253 had three different alignments through Penfield prior to its truncation (and the designation of NY 153 over most of the decommissioned section of the third alignment) in 1983.

Original northern terminus of NY 253

[edit] First alignment

The initial alignment of NY 253 saw the route form a concurrency with NY 65 north from Lehigh Station Road to Calkins Road, where NY 253 turned east and followed Calkins, as well as Mendon Center Road, which Calkins merges into, north into the village of Pittsford. At the Mendon Center/South Main Street intersection, NY 253 formed a north-east concurrency with NY 64 that lasted until NY 64's northern terminus at NY 96 and NY 252. NY 253 then overlapped NY 96 through Pittsford, splitting from the route at the current southern terminus of NY 153. Route 253 then followed the present alignment of NY 153 north to what is now the intersection of Panorama Trail South and North Washington Street in Perinton just to the north of East Rochester. At this time, Panorama Trail South did not exist and North Washington Street, which continues north to NY 441, held the NY 253 designation until its northern terminus at NY 441 at what is now the intersection of Penfield Road and Linear Park Drive. This alignment remained until the 1960s when the bridge over Irondequoit Creek in Linear Park was permanently closed, causing North Washington Street north of the bridge to be renamed Linear Park Drive and causing NY 253 to take on a new alignment.^[2]

[edit] Second alignment

Reference marker for NY 253 on Five Mile Line Road

To compensate for the loss of North Washington Street as a link to NY 441, Route 253 was rerouted from Linden Avenue north (however, from Linden Avenue south, the alignment remained the same). Instead of continuing on Washington at Linden, the route turned east onto Linden, crossing Irondequoit Creek to the east of East Rochester, then turning north onto Whitney Road (which becomes Five Mile Line Road), where 253 remained until reaching its new northern terminus at the intersection of Penfield Road (NY 441) and Five Mile Line Road at the Four Corners of Penfield. This alignment remained in place until the early 1970s, when a major construction project involving Route 441 would cause 253 to change course once again.^[2]

[edit] Third alignment

Construction on a four-lane, grade separated expressway through Brighton and Penfield would cause not only the alignment of NY 441 to change, but also Route 253's as well. An extension of Panorama Trail (now Panorama Trail South) was built from Panorama Creek Drive south to North Washington Street to connect Washington to the new 441 expressway. NY 253 was then rerouted from Linden Avenue north (again, the remainder of the alignment remained the same) to follow the present alignment of NY 153. This alignment remained in place until 1983, when NY 253 was truncated to NY 65 in Mendon. The section between NY 441 and NY 96 in Pittsford became NY 153.^[2] The section between NY 64 and NY 65 in Pittsford became New York State Route 943C, an unsigned reference route 1.68 miles (2.70 km) in length.^[1]

[edit] Thruway Park Drive

Up until 2000, Erie Station Road carried Route 253 from Scottsville-West Henrietta Road to NY 15. However, with the increased traffic flow generated by the advent of Thruway Park Drive, a strip of commercial businesses just north of Erie Station Road, it became necessary to expand the intersection at Erie Station and West Henrietta (NY 15) Roads. This, however, was impossible due to the presence of historical buildings at the intersection, causing NY 253 to be rerouted onto Thruway Park Drive.^[2]

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile^[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Monroe	Scottsville	0.00	NY 383
	Henrietta	5.03	NY 15 south	Southern terminus of overlap
		5.98	NY 15 north	Northern terminus of overlap
		6.50	I-390 to I-90 / Thruway	Exit 12 (I-390)
		6.57	Middle Road (CR 88)
		7.98	NY 15A
		8.98	Pinnacle Road (CR 92)
	Town of Pittsford	10.83	NY 65