New York State Route 417

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NY Route 417
Length: 104.20 mi[1] (167.69 km)
Formed: 1970[2]
West end: I-86/NY 17 in Salamanca
Major
junctions:		 US 219 in Salamanca
I-86/NY 17 in Allegany
East end: US 15 in Erwins
Counties: Cattaraugus, Allegany, Steuben
Numbered highways in New York
< NY 416 NY 418 >
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 417 is located in the Southern Tier of the state. It is the longest of several state highways formerly part of New York State Route 17 before the construction of the Southern Tier Expressway. It also diverges the most from the current Route 17, coming within 100 feet (30 m) of the Pennsylvania state line at one intersection.

417 is one of the longest three-digit routes in the state. At one time, a section in the Steuben County town of Greenwood was the highest on the state highway system outside of the state's eastern mountains.

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[edit] Route description

[edit] Cattaraugus County

Communities

Starting from its west end, the highway begins at an exit with NY 17 and Interstate 86 just west of the Indian-owned city of Salamanca in Cattaraugus County. New York State Route 353 ends at an intersection with 417, and the road joins with U.S. Route 219 for a few miles east of the village.

After 219 splits off to the south toward Bradford, Pennsylvania, 417 continues following the Allegheny River and the expressway toward a point west of Allegany where it intersects with 17 and 86 indirectly, to provide access to the campus of St. Bonaventure University. From there it crosses Olean Creek and enters the city of Olean, the largest community along its length. The major intersection there is New York State Route 16.

Next 417 crosses the suburb of East Olean, then heads southeastward, away from the expressway corridor but along the river, to a brief concurrency with New York State Route 305 that marks the village of Portville. 417's southeast heading continues east of the small village, into Allegany County.

[edit] Allegany County

In Allegany County, at the small hamlet of Ceres, NY 417 skirts the state line closely enough to be the de facto northern end of Pennsylvania Route 44.

It then turns northeast, reaching after several miles the village of Bolivar where New York State Route 275 continues to the north while 417 turns east once again. This takes it to its next large community, Wellsville, where it briefly joins another major highway, New York State Route 19, along a different river, the Genesee, through the village's downtown.

Heading due east again past Wellsville through the narrow but scenic valley of Dyke Creek, 417 next comes to Andover, where New York State Route 21 begins its long trip north. Two miles east of the village, it crosses into Steuben County.

[edit] Steuben County

417 begins to climb the valley headwall, and presently reaches an elevation of 2,300 feet (701 m) above sea level at West Greenwood. Before the relocation of New York State Route 16 away from Route 305's present course, this was the highest elevation on any state highway in the western or central regions of New York. Descending once again to Greenwood, it intersects New York State Route 248.

At the next community of enough note to receive a name, Jasper, another major north-south route, New York State Route 36, briefly shares the road. Beyond it, the road's meanderings eventually bring it to the Canisteo River valley and Addison, where the now-deleted New York State Route 432 once ended. A straight, well-maintained section takes 417 from there to its current eastern terminus at U.S. Route 15. It is possible that once the interchange with NY 17/I-86 is completed in 2007, 417 may once again extend into nearby Painted Post.

[edit] History

Most of modern NY 417 was designated as part of NY 17 in 1924. Between Olean and Wellsville, as well as between Andover and Jasper, what is now NY 417 was unnumbered.[3] In the 1930 renumbering, NY 17 was rerouted to follow the length of current NY 417 between Salamanca and Corning.[4]

417 was originally assigned to a shorter road in Otsego County, near Otego.[5] As the Southern Tier Expressway neared completion, however, it was reassigned gradually to sections of the former, two-lane 17, starting at Steamburg in Chautauqua County in 1970.[2] Ironically, that first section from Steamburg to Salamanca was the first to be deleted entirely when part was closed to traffic in the Allegany Reservation.[5]

By 1980, NY 417 was assigned to its current alignment between Allegany and Corning, replacing the realigned NY 17.[6] The route was extended west to its current terminus in Salamanca between 1980 and 1989.[6][7] Originally it did extend into Painted Post as a concurrency with 15, but it was later moved and truncated entirely to its current eastern terminus in Gang Mills.[7]

The portion of former NY 417 from Steamburg to Salamanca is now designated as New York State Route 951T, an unsigned reference route. Although the physical roadway remains continuous, part of it is closed to traffic due to the potential for the Allegheny Reservoir to flood and inundate part of the roadway. Due to this situation, NY 951T exists in two segments: a 0.47-mile (0.76 km) long western portion extending east from Interstate 86, NY 17, and NY 394 in Cold Spring and a 3.55-mile (5.71 km) long eastern portion that originates at I-86, NY 17, and NY 417 in Salamanca and continues west.[1] The Seneca Nation Allegany reservation governmental headquarters, along with the surrounding hamlet of Jimerson Town, lies entirely on NY 951T.

[edit] Major intersections

County Location Mile[1] Roads intersected Notes
Cattaraugus City of Salamanca 0.00 I-86/NY 17 Exit 20 (I-86/NY 17)
NY 951T Former extension of Route 17, leads into Jimerson Town. Now a dead-end road.
0.76 NY 353 Southern terminus of NY 353
2.60 US 219 south Western terminus of overlap
3.33 US 219 north

US 219 Business		 Eastern terminus of US 219/NY 417 overlap; western terminus of US 219 Business/NY 417 overlap
Limestone 9.72
US 219 Business		 Eastern terminus of overlap
Village of Allegany 16.17 I-86/NY 17 Exit 24 (I-86/NY 17); access via West Five Mile Road
City of Olean 20.86 NY 16
Village of Portville 26.66 NY 305 north Northern terminus of overlap
27.44 NY 305 south Southern terminus of overlap
Allegany Ceres 31.52 PA 44 Northern terminus of PA 44
Village of Bolivar 38.87 NY 275 Southern terminus of NY 275
Village of Wellsville 51.42 NY 19 north Western terminus of overlap
52.88 NY 19 south Eastern terminus of overlap
Village of Andover 61.26 NY 21 Southern terminus of NY 21
Steuben Greenwood 69.89 NY 248
Jasper 77.23 NY 36 south Western terminus of overlap
78.45 NY 36 north Eastern terminus of overlap
Village of Addison 95.67 CR 119 Former eastern terminus of NY 432
Erwins 100.36 US 15 Interchange
Gang Mills US 15 Exit 3 (US 15)
104.20 Robert Dann Drive
US 15		 Ramp to US 15 closed due to construction

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Traffic Data Report - NY 305 to NY 427 (PDF). NYSDOT (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2007-10-13.
  2. ^ a b Official Description of Touring Routes in New York State. State of New York Department of Transportation (1970-01-01). Retrieved on 2007-11-02.
  3. ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers", New York Times, 1924-12-21, p. XX9. 
  4. ^ Leon A. Dickinson. "New Signs for State Highways", New York Times, 1930-01-12, p. 136. 
  5. ^ a b New York Routes - New York State Route 417. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
  6. ^ a b Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Official Transportation Map [map]. (1980) Retrieved on 2007-09-19.
  7. ^ a b Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Pennsylvania Official Transportation Map [map]. (1989) Retrieved on 2007-09-15.