New York State Route 328

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NY Route 328

Maintained by NYSDOT

Length:

6.15 mi^[1] (9.90 km)

Formed:

1930^[2]

South end:

PA 328 at Southport

North end:

NY 14 in Southport

Counties:

Chemung

Numbered highways in New York
< NY 327		NY 329 >
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 328 is a northeast-southwest state highway located entirely within the town of Southport in Chemung County, New York, USA. The northeast end of NY 328 is at NY 14 in the community of Southport, and the southwest terminus is the Pennsylvania state line, where NY 328 continues on as Pennsylvania Route 328. NY 328 parallels Seeley Creek, a tributary of the Chemung River, for its entire length. The entirety of the route is part of Corridor U of the Appalachian Development Highway System.

1 Route description
2 History
3 Major intersections
4 References

[edit] Route description

NY 328 picks up where Pennsylvania Route 328 leaves off at the Pennsylvania state line in the southwestern Chemung County town of Southport. The route heads northeast, roughly paralleling Seeley Creek as it runs along the base of a large valley surrounding the waterway. After three-fifths of a mile (1.0 km), the route veers to the north as a super-2, crossing the creek, while the roadway along the southern edge of Seeley Creek becomes County Route 69. NY 328 intersects CR 78 shortly afterward.^[3]

The route continues along the western base of the valley, bypassing both Webb Mills and Pine City as it continues to parallel both CR 69 and Seeley Creek. Near Pine City, NY 328 intersects CR 69, now named Pennsylvania Avenue, once more. Here, NY 328 transitions from a two-lane roadway to a four-lane divided highway, a configuration that remains in place for the final 3 miles (4.8 km) of the route. NY 328 continues along a narrow strip of land situated in the center of the valley between CR 69 and Seeley Creek to the hamlet of Southport, where it terminates at NY 14. At this point, NY 14 leaves Broadway and turns east onto the Clemens Center Parkway, the eastward and northward continuation of NY 328 into Elmira.^[3]

All of NY 328 is part of Corridor U of the Appalachian Development Highway System. The corridor continues south into Pennsylvania on PA 328 and U.S. Route 15 to Williamsport, Pennsylvania,^[4] and north along NY 14 to the Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86 and NY 17) in Horseheads.^[5]

[edit] History

When NY 328 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering, it began on Sagetown Road at the Steuben-Chemung county line and followed Sagetown Road east to the hamlet of Seeley Creek. At Seeley Creek, NY 328 turned north to follow Pennsylvania Avenue into Elmira.^[2]^[6] In Elmira, the route was routed on Main Street, College Avenue, and Corning Road to the vicinity of Horseheads, where it ended at then-NY 17.^{[citation needed]} At the same time, a connector between NY 328 at Seeley Creek and then-Pennsylvania Route 549 at the Pennsylvania state line was designated New York State Route 328A.^[2] By 1935, NY 328 was rerouted south of Seeley Creek to connect directly to PA 549, replacing NY 328A.^[7]

In the 1960s, NY 328 was rerouted between Seeley Creek and Southport to follow a new roadway built to bypass the hamlets of Seeley Creek, Webb Mills, and Pine City.^[8]^[9]^[10] The realignment coincided with the designation of the route as part of Corridor U of the Appalachian Development Highway System in 1965.^[11] In 1978, NY 328 was truncated to its current northern terminus in Southport.^[12]

The former routing of NY 328 on Sagetown Road remained state maintained long after NY 328 had been realigned off of it.^[13] The roadway was designated New York State Route 960D, an unsigned reference route;^[14] however, the route was turned over to the county by 2003 and is now County Route 78.^[15] Farther east, the pre-1960s alignment of NY 328 on Pennsylvania Avenue between Seeley Creek and Southport is now County Route 69.^[13]^[16]