New York State Route 277

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NY Route 277

Union Road

Length:

21.40 mi^[1] (34.44 km)

South end:

NY 391 in North Boston

Major
junctions:

US 20A in Orchard Park

US 20 in Orchard Park

NY 400 in West Seneca

NY 33 in Cheektowaga

North end:

NY 324 in Amherst

Counties:

Erie

Numbered highways in New York
< NY 276	I-278 >
< NY 18A		NY 18D >
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 277 is a state highway in New York, USA. This highway is also called Union Road, along with other names. NY 277 is a major north-south road east of Buffalo, New York, through the middle of Erie County. The section of NY 277 north of Orchard Park used to be New York State Route 18B until the portion of NY 18 south of Niagara Falls was deleted.

1 Route description
2 Communities along the route
3 Major intersections
4 References

[edit] Route description

NY 277 begins at an intersection with NY 391 in the community of North Boston. This intersection also serves as the southern terminus for NY 391. NY 277 continues to the northeast as Herman Hill Road and Boston Ridge Road before turning to the north at an intersection with CR 552, becoming Chestnut Ridge Road.

In the village of Orchard Park, NY 277 meets NY 240 south of the village center. The two routes form a concurrency along Buffalo Road through the village, meeting U.S. Route 20A in the middle of the village. North of the village in the town of Orchard Park, NY 240/277 meets Milestrip Road, a major east-west arterial during Buffalo Bills home games. To the north of Milestrip is U.S. Route 20, followed by the split of the concurrency just north of US 20. While NY 240 heads northwest toward downtown Buffalo, NY 277 continues due north and becomes Union Road.

Now in the town of West Seneca, NY 277 meets NY 16 as well as NY 400, the Aurora Expressway, which parallels NY 16 for most of its length. North of town is a junction with NY 354 in the hamlet of Gardenville, its last major intersection before entering Cheektowaga.

Near the east end of CSX's Frontier Yard in downtown Buffalo, NY 277 interchanges with NY 130 in the neighborhood of Forks. The interchange was created out of necessity, as NY 277 has to ascend onto a bridge to traverse the CSX Buffalo Terminal Subdivision mainline, which is four tracks wide in this location. Just north of the tracks is Walden Avenue and the Walden Galleria, which is bordered on its east side by NY 277.

To the north of the mall and west of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, NY 277 intersects both the former routing of NY 33 at Genesee Street and its current routing slightly north of Genesee on the Kensington Expressway. Northwest of the airport, NY 277 passes over the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) near the Williamsville toll barrier.

North of the Thruway, NY 277 enters the heart of Amherst, meeting NY 5 near the western edge of the Village of Williamsville. Heading north, NY 277 becomes North Forest Road and begins to curve to the northwest, deviating from its perfect north-south alignment that it takes through most of the Buffalo suburbs. NY 277 continues on a northwest track as it comes to an end at NY 324, better known as Sheridan Drive, in Amherst.

[edit] Communities along the route

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile^[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Erie	North Boston	0.00	NY 391	Southern terminus of NY 391
	Town of Orchard Park	5.27	NY 240 south	Southern terminus of overlap
	Village of Orchard Park	6.57	US 20A
	Town of Orchard Park	8.63	US 20
	Town of Orchard Park	8.88	NY 240 north	Northern terminus of overlap
	West Seneca	11.63	NY 16
		11.90	NY 400	Interchange
		12.71	NY 354
	Cheektowaga		NY 130	Interchange
		16.31	Walden Avenue (NY 952Q)
		17.90	NY 33	Interchange
	Williamsville	20.03	NY 5
	Amherst	21.40	NY 324