NYS Route 34B | |||||||
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Auxiliary route of NY 34 | |||||||
Maintained by NYSDOT | |||||||
Length: | 34.03 mi[2] (54.77 km) | ||||||
Existed: | 1930[1] – present | ||||||
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South end: | NY 38 in Dryden | ||||||
North end: | NY 34 in Fleming | ||||||
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Counties: | Tompkins, Cayuga | ||||||
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Numbered highways in New York
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New York State Route 34B (NY 34B) is a north–south state highway located within Tompkins and Cayuga Counties in Central New York. Its northern terminus is located at a junction with NY 34 by the hamlet of Fleming within the town of the same name in Cayuga County. The southern terminus is located at a junction with NY 38 in the town of Dryden in Tompkins County.
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The concurrency with NY 34 in Lansing is a wrong-way concurrency as drivers traveling on NY 34B north are simultaneously driving on NY 34 south.
In 1908, the New York State Legislature created Route 11, an unsigned legislative route extending from Ithaca to Auburn via the hamlets of South Lansing, Lake Ridge, King Ferry, Scipioville, and Fleming.[3][4] No route was assigned to the Ithaca–Auburn corridor when the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924;[5] however, the primary north–south highway between the two cities was included as part of NY 40 by 1926. NY 40 followed a more easterly alignment than legislative Route 11 between South Lansing and Fleming, bypassing Lake Ridge, King Ferry, and Scipioville on what is now NY 34.[6]
The NY 40 designation was reassigned to another highway in the Capital District as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York. Its former routing south of Cato became part of the new NY 34, which extended south through Ithaca to Waverly.[7][8] At the same time, the former alignment of legislative Route 11 between South Lansing and Fleming was designated as NY 34B.[1] Also assigned as part of the renumbering was NY 229, an extension of NY 34B east to NY 38 in the Dryden hamlet of Peruville. NY 34B and NY 229 were separated by less than 1 mile (1.6 km) of NY 34.[8] The NY 229 designation was removed ca. 1939.[9][10]
On April 1, 1980, the road from South Lansing to Peruville became a state highway once again as ownership and maintenance of the roadway was transferred from Tompkins County to the state of New York as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government.[11] The new state highway became part of an extended NY 34B.[12][13]
County | Location | Mile[2] | Destinations | Notes |
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Tompkins |
Town of Dryden | 0.00 | NY 38 | Hamlet of Peruville |
Town of Lansing | 6.99 | NY 34 north | Eastern terminus of NY 34 / NY 34B overlap | |
7.47 | NY 34 south | Hamlet of South Lansing; western terminus of NY 34 / NY 34B overlap | ||
Cayuga |
Genoa | 19.33 | NY 90 | Hamlet of King Ferry |
Fleming | 34.03 | NY 34 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |