Talk:New York State Route 330

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[edit] State highway status?

After combing through the state highway law, it doesn't appear that NY 330 was ever a "state highway" in the state-maintained sense, a la NY 255 or NY 99. So, to me, it's unlikely that the route was "replaced" by the county routes - they were likely co-designated. If the DOT had archives of older state topos, we'd be able to confirm it one way or the other, but as far as I know, such archive doesn't exist. --TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 22:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

This 1978 topo shows 330, but I'm not sure that's what you're looking for though.^Mitch32^contribs 23:03, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

No; I'm referring to maintenance, not existence of the designation. Look at the NYSDOT topo on NY 99; NY 99 was cosigned with CR 26, thus maintained by Franklin County, thus never maintained by NYSDOT. For further proof of that, the routing of NY 99 on those maps lack the small SH numbers that are shown on all state-maintained highways. Unfortunately, all of the NYSDOT topos for the area containing NY 330 are from the 1990s, long after 330 was removed. However, my theory that the road was never state-maintained, thus always a county-maintained highway, stems from the fact that there aren't descriptions in the state highway law for NY 330, nor any evidence of a transfer of NY 330 to Tioga or Tompkins County. So, to me, it's unlikely that the county route designations replaced NY 330; rather, they were already in place before NY 330 was removed. --TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 00:03, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

And all of this is moot: NY 330 was state-maintained and given to the county as part of a swap. Nothing special here. – TMF 02:45, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

For what it's worth, it most definitely was signed as NY 330. However, I have never seen any evidence along the route of "little green signs" that NYSDOT post along roads that it maintains, even those that are not assigned regular route numbers. (See Reference routes in New York). Such green signs often are left behind when a touring route is decommissioned.

[edit] Merge

I don't care what gets merged where, but there's absolutely no reason for these two articles to coexist. – TMF 02:46, 12 April 2008 (UTC)