New York State Route 8

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NY Route 8
Maintained by NYSDOT
Length: 208.17 mi[1] (335.02 km)
Formed: 1930[2]
South end: NY 10/NY 17 in Deposit
Major
junctions:		 I-88 in Sidney
NY 80 in New Berlin
US 20 in Bridgewater
I-790 / NY 5 / NY 12 in Utica
NY 30 in Speculator
I-87 in Chestertown
North end: NY 9N in Hague
Counties: Delaware, Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer, Hamilton, Warren
Numbered highways in New York
< NY 7 US 9 >
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

New York State Route 8 is a state highway through the central part of New York state. The highway runs generally in a southwest to northeast direction from the Southern Tier to Lake George. The northern terminus is in the Town of Hague, and the southern end is in the Town of Deposit. Route 8 is part of the four-way-concurrency in Utica, along NY 5, NY 12, and Interstate 790.

The route was assigned in the 1930 renumbering to an alignment extending from NY 10 and NY 17 in Deposit north to a ferry across Lake Champlain at Putnam Station, where it connected to Vermont Route F-10. NY 8 was realigned slightly on its northern end by 1935 to use the new Champlain Bridge at Crown Point to connect to Vermont Route 17. This was possible via a long concurrency with NY 9N and NY 22. In the 1960s, the concurrency was eliminated when Route 8 was truncated on its northern end to Hague, where it ended at Route 9N. Route 8 has remained the same since.

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[edit] Route description

[edit] Southern Tier

NY 8 begins at an interchange with NY 17 in Deposit that also serves as the southern terminus of NY 10. NY 8 and NY 10 form a brief concurrency north along the West Branch of the Delaware River before separating at the southeastern edge of the Cannonsville Reservoir northeast of Deposit. While NY 10 follows the southern edge of the reservoir to the east, NY 8 continues north, passing to the east of Oquaga Creek State Park (and connecting to the park via a pair of local roads) before meeting NY 206 in Masonville. From Masonville, NY 8 heads north to Sidney, where it interchanges with Interstate 88, crosses the Susquehanna River, and intersects NY 7 before leaving the village adjacent to the Unadilla River, a tributary of the Susquehanna.

NY 8 parallels the Unadilla River northward through Mount Upton to New Berlin, where it meets NY 80. The routes overlap for a short distance to the north before NY 80 separates to the northwest toward Sherburne. NY 8, however, continues along the Unadilla River through several small communities before separating from the river just south of the Madison-Oneida County line.[3]

[edit] Utica area

Shortly after crossing into Oneida County, NY 8 intersects U.S. Route 20 in Bridgewater. The route continues northward, passing through Cassville and Clayville before becoming a limited-access highway just north of Clayville. Near Sauquoit, NY 8 interchanges with Pinnacle Road and Elm Street prior to entering the Utica suburbs. In New Hartford, the route has an exit with Genesee Street prior to meeting NY 5 and NY 12 at a cloverleaf interchange southwest of downtown Utica. While the right-of-way of NY 8 continues to the northeast through the cloverleaf as NY 840, NY 8 joins NY 5 and NY 12 as the three routes enter downtown on the North-South Arterial.

Diagram of the interchange between I-790, NY 5, NY 8, NY 12 and NY 49
Diagram of the interchange between I-790, NY 5, NY 8, NY 12 and NY 49

Near the northern edge of downtown, NY 5, NY 8, and NY 12 interchange with NY 5A and NY 5S on the southern bank of the Mohawk River. At the exit, the three states are joined on the arterial by Interstate 790, which follows NY 5/8/12 across the Mohawk River and the neighboring Erie Canal to a large interchange north of the canal. Here, I-790 and NY 5 separate from the concurrency while NY 8 and NY 12 remain concurrent into Deerfield as a limited-access highway. After an interchange with a former routing of NY 12, NY 8 separates from the highway and returns to an at-grade roadway as it heads northeast to Poland. Near the Oneida-Herkimer County line (here delimited by West Canada Creek), NY 8 merges with NY 28 and follows the route across the county line (as well as the creek) into Poland. In the center of the village, NY 8 splits from NY 28 and heads northeast into Adirondack Park.[3]

[edit] Adirondack Park

Within Adirondack Park, NY 8 follows a northeast-southwest routing as it crosses the lower half of the park. Near Ohio, NY 8 intersects NY 365 due north of where it enters the park. Past NY 365, NY 8 heads east to Higgins Bay, where it intersects the northern terminus of NY 10. The route continues northeast to Speculator, where it meets NY 30. NY 30 turns east onto NY 8, forming an overlap southeast to Wells, where NY 8 separates from NY 30 and heads to the northeast into Warren County.

In Wevertown, NY 8 junctions with NY 28 for the final time prior to meeting U.S. Route 9 at Loon Lake. The two routes merge, forming an overlap east to Chestertown, where US 9 splits from NY 8 and continues south. NY 8, however, heads east, meeting Interstate 87 shortly after departing US 9. Past I-87, NY 8 follows the southern edge of Brant Lake to the northeast before turning to the east toward Hague, where it terminates at NY 9N.[3]

[edit] History

In the 1930 renumbering, NY 8 was assigned to most of its current alignment from Deposit to Hague.[2][4] The route also extended eastward to Wright (southeast of Ticonderoga) on modern NY 9N, NY 22, and County Road 2, where it connected to Vermont Route F-10 by way of a ferry across Lake Champlain.[4] From Clayville to Utica, NY 8 was originally routed along Oneida Street before overlapping with NY 5 and NY 12 along Genesee Street in downtown Utica.[5] After crossing the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal, the three routes separated at the intersection of Herkimer Road, Trenton Road, and Coventry Avenue northeast of downtown. NY 8 then followed Coventry Avenue and Walker Road northeast to Deerfield, where NY 8 joined its modern alignment.[6]

Prior to 1930, what became NY 8 in the renumbering carried multiple designations along its routing. In 1924, the segment of Genesee Street in Utica that became NY 8 was designated as part of NY 5 and NY 12. Additionally, the portion of NY 8 from Wevertown to Chestertown became part of NY 10. The segment from the modern intersection of US 9 and NY 8 to Chestertown was also designated as part of NY 6.[7] By 1926, what became NY 8 from Sidney to New Berlin and from Bridgewater to downtown Utica was designated as New York State Route 44. Between New Berlin and Bridgewater, NY 44 followed what is now NY 80 through Edmeston to West Burlington, then NY 51 from West Burlington to US 20. NY 44 then overlapped US 20 west to Bridgewater. From Utica to Wells, the 1930 routing of NY 8 was part of NY 54. Between Chestertown and Ticonderoga, NY 8 was designated New York State Route 47.[8] Until the renumbering, what became NY 8 was unbuilt from Deposit to Masonville and unnumbered from Masonville to Sidney.[4] Additionally, the segments from New Berlin to Bridgewater and from Wells to Wevertown were unnumbered.[8]

NY 8 was rerouted in the early 1930s to exit Ticonderoga to the north along NY 9N and NY 22 instead of to the south on NY 22. The three routes remained concurrent to south of Port Henry, where NY 8 turned northeast to follow what is now NY 910L (an unsigned reference route) to a new bridge traversing Lake Champlain. The route became Vermont Route 17 on the opposite lakeshore.[4][9] NY 8 was truncated to Hague in the late 1960s[10][11] and rerouted onto its present alignment in and around Utica between 1967 and 1985.[12][13]

[edit] Major intersections

County Location Mile[1] Roads intersected Notes
Delaware Village of Deposit 0.00 NY 17
NY 10		 Exit 84 (NY 17); southern terminus of NY 8/10 overlap
Southern terminus of NY 10
2.14 NY 10 north Northern terminus of overlap
Masonville 15.29 NY 206
Village of Sidney 19.84 I-88 Exit 9 (I-88)
Otsego Town of Unadilla 21.69 NY 7
Chenango Guilford 29.96 NY 51 Southern terminus of NY 51
Town of New Berlin 37.94 NY 23
Village of New Berlin 45.68 NY 80 east Southern terminus of overlap
Town of New Berlin 46.95 NY 80 west Northern terminus of overlap
Oneida Village of Bridgewater 64.60 US 20
Utica 79.89 NY 5 west/NY 12 south
NY 840		 Cloverleaf interchange; southern terminus of NY 5/8/12 overlap
Eastern terminus of NY 840
83.18 NY 5A
NY 5S
I-790		 Eastern terminus of NY 5A; western terminus of NY 5S
Southern terminus of I-790/NY 8 overlap; southern terminus of I-790
84.05 I-790 north/NY 5 east to NY 49 Northern terminus of I-790/NY 5/8 overlap; eastern terminus of NY 49; to I-90/Thruway (via I-790/NY 5)
Deerfield 89.17 NY 12 north Northern terminus of overlap
95.92 NY 28 north Southern terminus of overlap
Herkimer Poland 97.42 NY 28 south Northern terminus of overlap
Ohio 111.11 NY 365 Northern terminus of NY 365
Hamilton Arietta 133.51 NY 10 Northern terminus of NY 10
Speculator 145.76 NY 30 north Southern terminus of overlap
Wells 155.46 NY 30 south Northern terminus of overlap
Warren Johnsburg 178.87 NY 28
Chester 184.56 US 9 north Southern terminus of overlap
188.38 US 9 south Northern terminus of overlap
189.86 I-87 Exit 25 (I-87)
Hague 208.17 NY 9N

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Traffic Data Report - US 1 to US 9 (PDF). NYSDOT (2007-07-16). Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  2. ^ a b Leon A. Dickinson. "New Signs for State Highways", New York Times, 1930-01-12, p. 136. 
  3. ^ a b c Rand McNally. The Road Atlas [map]. (2008) Page 71, section NI14-NM14.
  4. ^ a b c d Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1930/31 and 1931/32 editions, (Scarborough Motor Guide Co., Boston, 1930 and 1931). The 1930/31 edition shows New York state routes prior to the 1930 renumbering
  5. ^ Automobile Legal Association (ALA) Automobile Green Book, 1931/32 edition, (Scarborough Motor Guide Co., Boston, 1931)
  6. ^ Rand McNally. Rand McNally Road Atlas [map]. (1946) Retrieved on 2007-10-09.
  7. ^ "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers", New York Times, 1924-12-21, p. XX9. 
  8. ^ a b Rand McNally. Rand McNally Auto Road Atlas [map]. (1926) Retrieved on 2007-10-09.
  9. ^ Sun Oil Company. Road Map & Historical Guide - New York [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. (1935)
  10. ^ United States Geological Survey. Glens Falls, NY Quadrangle [map], 1:250,000, Eastern United States 1:250,000. (1967) Retrieved on 2007-12-07.
  11. ^ State of New York Department of Transportation (1970-01-01). Official Description of Touring Routes in New York State. Retrieved on 2007-12-07.
  12. ^ Gousha. Gousha Road Atlas [map]. (1967) Retrieved on 2007-10-09.
  13. ^ Rand McNally. New York [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally. (1985)

[edit] External links

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