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U.S. Route 219 in New York

 
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This article is about the section of U.S. Route 219 in New York. For the entire length of the highway, see U.S. Route 219.
U.S. Route 219 shield
U.S. Route 219
Length: 67.54 mi[1] (108.70 km)
South end: US 219.svg US 219 at Limestone
Major
junctions:		 I-86.svgNY-17.svg I-86/NY 17 in Salamanca
US 20A.svg US 20A in West Seneca
North end: I-90.svgNYS Thruway Sign.png I-90/Thruway in West Seneca
Numbered highways in New York
< NY 218 US 220 >
Interstate – U.S. – N.Y. (former) – Reference
United States Numbered Highways
List – Bannered – Divided – Replaced

U.S. Route 219 (US 219) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Rich Creek, Virginia, to West Seneca, New York. In the U.S. state of New York, US 219 extends 67.54 miles (108.70 km) from the Pennsylvania state line at Limestone to an interchange with Interstate 90 (the New York State Thruway) at exit 55 in West Seneca, southeast of downtown Buffalo.

In Cattaraugus County, the area surrounding US 219 is predominantly rural. However, in adjacent Erie County, US 219 becomes an expressway leading into the heart of Buffalo.

Contents

Route description

North US 219 signage in New York

Cattaraugus County

U.S. Route 219 begins at the Pennsylvania-New York state line in the village of Limestone. The road begins by heading northward towards the Southern Tier Expressway.[2] Just after the Pennsylvania border, East Main Street becomes Hillside Drive and soon after Old U.S. Route 219 as it parallels Route 219 for a short time. The road quickly merges into 219 as the U.S. route enters the village of Limestone. A second designation of Old Route 219 parallels the U.S. route throughout Limestone. The road merges in just north of the village and 219 continues northward. South Nine Mile Road, also Cattaraugus County Route 30 leaves to the right just before the road merges into the Southern Tier Expressway (I-86 and NY 17). Also present at this intersection is US 219 Business. The three roads continue for another six miles (10 km) until Exit 21, where 219 leaves the Southern Tier Expressway in Salamanca.[3]

U.S. Route 219 crosses through the village of Salamanca and heads north towards Ellicottville.[3] While in Salamanca, Route 417 and 219 become concurrent for about one mile (1.6 km). At the end of the concurrency comes the end of the business route. County Route 49 terminates just north of Salamanca as 219 enters Peth. In Peth, County Route 67 leaves to the right. In Great Valley, Route 98 leaves to the north. 219 enters Ellicottville and intersects with Route 242.[4] The two roads become concurrent for a short distance when 219 turns to the north. Several Cattaraugus County roads intersect in the distance from Ellicottville to the Erie County border. The first is Route 75, the second is a 53/85 concurrency and the third is Route 12, which has a concurrency U.S. Route 219 before leaving to the east.[5] After the intersection with County Routes 77 and 85, US 219 leaves Cattaraugus County for Erie County.

Erie County

The last 25 miles (40 km) of US 219 are in Erie County. The first intersection is with County Route 121 in Springville.[6] Just after the intersection with Erie 121, Route 39 comes in from the east and merges with 219. The two roads are concurrent for a short distance as 219 moves again to the north towards West Seneca. 219 then becomes a freeway and is known as the Southern Expressway. The first interchange on the freeway is for County Route 49, also known as Genesee Road. The second interchange, about 6 miles (9.7 km) later, is for CR 233. Five miles later, US 219 encounters Route 391 in Creekside. The route continues on, connecting to CR 44, an access road to Route 240 in East Aurora. The next interchange is with U.S. Route 20A at 62 miles (100 km).[7] US 20 crosses under the expressway in Orchard Park. North of US 20, US 219 has an interchange with Route 179. U.S. Route 219 comes to an end at the New York State Thruway (I-90) in West Seneca, 67 miles (108 km) from Limestone and the PA border.[7] 219 and the Thruway unofficially run in conjunction with each other for about a mile, consisting of two separate sets of two lanes in each direction. For example, a driver going south could exit the Thruway onto the 219, drive alongside it for a mile, then exit the 219 back onto the Thruway. This is also possible in the northbound direction of the Thruway. This is done for access to and from Ridge Road for both the 219 and Thruway.

History

Original alignment

US 219 was extended into New York from Pennsylvania between 1930 and 1935,[8][9] although the designation existed as far north as the New York-Pennsylvania border as early as 1929.[10] The route followed then-NY 18 from the Pennsylvania border to NY 17 (now NY 17 in Salamanca, where US 219 and NY 18 turned west, forming a concurrency with NY 17 into the city. At the modern intersection of US 219 and NY 417, US 219 separated from NY 17 and NY 18, following its modern alignment north to NY 98 in Great Valley. Past NY 98, US 219 remained on its current routing to Ellicottville.[11] As it does today, US 219 continued north from Ellicottville to Springville; however, US 219 was originally routed on NY 242 to Ashford,[12][13] where it followed modern NY 240 to Cattaraugus Street southeast of Springville.[13][14] Within Springville, US 219 was routed along Cattaraugus Street and Buffalo Street, meeting NY 39 in the village center.[15] Outside of the village, US 219 continued north on Springville-Boston Road and Boston State Road to North Boston,[16] where US 219 followed what is now NY 391 into Hamburg, terminating at US 62/NY 18.[9]

From Salamanca to Great Valley, the routing of US 219 was designated as part of NY 98 in the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.[17] At the same time, the remainder of what became US 219 from Great Valley to Hamburg was mostly designated as part of NY 62, a route extending from Great Valley north to NY 18 at Ohio Street in downtown Buffalo.[18] The alignments of both routes were unnumbered prior to 1930.[19] NY 62 was renumbered to NY 75 in 1932 to eliminate numerical duplication with U.S. Route 62, which was extended into New York at that time.[20][21]

Realignments and redesignations

Between 1950 and 1962, US 219 was rerouted to follow its present alignment between Ellicottville and Springville.[22][23] However, the segment of modern NY 240 vacated by US 219 did not become part of an extended NY 240 until the 1970s.[24][25]

In 1964, the overlap with NY 18 from Pennsylvania to Salamanca was eliminated when NY 18 was truncated to its present western terminus in Lewiston.[26][27]

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, construction ensued on the Southern Expressway, the modern alignment of US 219 between Springville and Buffalo. The first section of the freeway from Armor Duells Road to the Thruway in West Seneca opened in 1972, followed by an extension south to current NY 391 in 1977. In 1981, the remainder of the existing expressway from NY 391 to NY 39 was completed.[28]

Between 1989 and 1995, US 219 was rerouted onto its current alignment in the Salamanca area, following the Southern Tier Expressway (NY 17) between exits 21 and 23.[29][30] The old alignment of US 219 through the city became US 219 Business.

Future

See also: U.S. Route 219#Southern Expressway Extension

Plans are in place to extend the Southern Expressway from its current southern terminus at NY 39 in Springville to Peters Road in Ashford, a distance of 4.2 miles (6.8 km). Current project specifications call for the installation of a four-lane right-of-way (two lanes in each direction) and the construction of 11 bridges, including twin bridges over Cattaraugus Creek. Areas near parts of the new freeway will become a wetland habitat. A portion of NY 39 near the current southern terminus will also be reconstructed in 2007 and 2008 to accommodate for the completed interchange with US 219.[31]

The rights to the project were awarded to Cold Spring Construction, Inc. on January 26, 2007, with work commencing on June 1. Altogether, the project is expected to cost $85.6 million.[31] Future plans call for the expressway to be extended to Interstate 86/NY 17 in Salamanca.[32]

Major intersections

Pennsylvania to Springville

County Location Mile[1] Roads intersected Notes
Cattaraugus Limestone 0.00 US 219.svg US 219 New York-Pennsylvania border
6.30 I-86.svgNY-17.svg I-86 east/NY 17 east Exit 23 (I-86/NY 17); eastern terminus of overlap
City of Salamanca 13.37 I-86.svgNY-17.svg I-86 west/NY 17 west Exit 21 (I-86/NY 17); western terminus of overlap
13.65 NY-417.svg NY 417 west Western terminus of overlap
14.38 NY-417.svg NY 417 east Eastern terminus of overlap
Great Valley 19.65 NY-98.svg NY 98 Southern terminus of NY 98
Village of Ellicottville 24.44 NY-242.svg NY 242 west Western terminus of overlap
25.43 NY-242.svg NY 242 east Eastern terminus of overlap
Erie Springville 42.67 NY-39.svg NY 39 east Eastern terminus of overlap
42.74 NY-39.svg NY 39 west Western terminus of overlap

Springville to Buffalo

All exits are unnumbered.

County Location Mile[1] Destinations Notes
Erie Concord 45.96 Genesee Road - Concord
Boston 52.21 Rice Road – Colden
Hamburg 56.97 NY 391 (Boston State Road) – Boston, Hamburg
Orchard Park 61.06 New Armor Duells Road – Chestnut Ridge Park
62.09 US 20A.svg US 20A – Orchard Park
63.90 NY-179.svg NY 179 (Milestrip Road) Signed as east and west
West Seneca 66.98 Ridge Road – Lackawanna, West Seneca Signed as West Seneca and Lackawanna
67.54 I-90.svgNYS Thruway Sign.png I-90/Thruway – Buffalo, Niagara Falls Exit 55 (I-90/Thruway)

Bannered routes

Salamanca business loop



U.S. Route 219 Business
Location Salamanca, New York
Commissioned 1990s-present

U.S. Route 219 Business is a 7.01-mile (11.28 km)[1] long bannered route of US 219 in the vicinity of Salamanca. The southern terminus of the route is at I-86/NY 17 exit 23 near Carrollton, where US 219 departs the expressway and follows the right-of-way of US 219 Business south to Pennsylvania. The northern terminus is at US 219 and NY 417 in downtown Salamanca.

From its northern terminus in Salamanca to Carrollton, US 219 Business is concurrent to NY 417. The 0.62-mile (1.00 km) segment between I-86/NY 17 and NY 417 is designated New York State Route 954T, an unsigned reference route.[33]

Until the 1990s, US 219 Business was the routing of US 219 through the Salamanca area.[29][30]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "2007 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. July 25, 2008. https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/NYSDOT_Traffic_Data_Report_2007.pdf. Retrieved July 17, 2009. 
  2. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – overview map of U.S. Route 219 in Limestone, NY [map]. Cartography by Tele Atlas. Retrieved on 2007-09-12.
  3. ^ a b Google, Inc. Google Maps – overview map of U.S. Route 219 in Salamanca, NY [map]. Cartography by Tele Atlas. Retrieved on 2007-09-12.
  4. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – overview map of U.S. Route 219 in Ellicottville, NY [map]. Cartography by Tele Atlas. Retrieved on 2007-09-12.
  5. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – overview map of U.S. Route 219 in Ashford, NY [map]. Cartography by Tele Atlas. Retrieved on 2007-09-12.
  6. ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – overview map of U.S. Route 219 in Springville, NY [map]. Cartography by Tele Atlas. Retrieved on 2007-09-12.
  7. ^ a b Google, Inc. Google Maps – overview map of U.S. Route 219 in Orchard Park, NY [map]. Cartography by Tele Atlas. Retrieved on 2007-09-12.
  8. ^ Pennsylvania Department of Highways. Tourist Map of Pennsylvania [map]. (1930) Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
  9. ^ a b Shell. Ontario [map]. Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company. (1935) Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
  10. ^ Automobile Blue Book, Inc.. Automobile Blue Book [map]. (1929) Retrieved on 2007-09-14.
  11. ^ Pennsylvania Department of Highways. Official Road Map of Pennsylvania [map]. (1940) Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
  12. ^ Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Ellicottville, NY Quadrangle [map], 1 : 62,500. (1939) Retrieved on 2007-09-15. (southwestern portion of quadrangle)
  13. ^ a b Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Ellicottville, NY Quadrangle [map], 1 : 62,500. (1939) Retrieved on 2007-09-15. (southeastern portion of quadrangle)
  14. ^ Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Ellicottville, NY Quadrangle [map], 1 : 62,500. (1939) Retrieved on 2007-09-15. (northeastern portion of quadrangle)
  15. ^ Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Ellicottville, NY Quadrangle [map], 1 : 62,500. (1939) Retrieved on 2007-09-15. (northwestern portion of quadrangle)
  16. ^ United States Geological Survey. Springville, NY Quadrangle [map], 1 : 24,000, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic). (1954)
  17. ^ 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
  18. ^ Standard Oil Company of New York. Road Map of New York [map]. Cartography by General Drafting. (1930)
  19. ^ Rand McNally and Company. Rand McNally Auto Road Atlas (western New York) [map]. (1926) Retrieved on December 6, 2009.
  20. ^ Robert V. Droz (October 29, 2008). "East-West Routes - US 2 to US 98 (and US 400) - Even numbered US highways". http://www.us-highways.com/us2.htm#US_62. Retrieved June 28, 2009. 
  21. ^ Sun Oil Company. Road Map & Historical Guide – New York [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. (1935)
  22. ^ Pennsylvania Department of Highways. Official Road Map of Pennsylvania [map]. (1950) Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
  23. ^ "Topographic map of Springville, NY". United States Geological Survey. 1962. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=15&Z=17&X=108&Y=735&W=3&qs=%7cspringville%7cny%7c. Retrieved 2007-09-15. 
  24. ^ Pennsylvania Department of Highways. Official Map of Pennsylvania [map]. (1970) Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
  25. ^ United States Geological Survey. Ashford Hollow, NY Quadrangle [map], 1 : 24,000, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic). (1979)
  26. ^ White Rose. Ontario [map]. Cartography by Rolph-McNally Limited. (1963) Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
  27. ^ Supertest. Ontario [map]. Cartography by H.M. Gousha Company. (1964) Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
  28. ^ National Bridge Inventory, a database compiled by the United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, available at www.nationalbridges.com. Accessed 2007-09-15.
  29. ^ a b Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Pennsylvania Official Transportation Map [map]. (1989) Retrieved on 2007-09-15.
  30. ^ a b Rand McNally. New York [map]. Cartography by Rand McNally. (1995)
  31. ^ a b New York State Department of Transportation (2007). "US Route 219 - Southern Expressway (NY Route 39 to Peters Road - Section 5)". New York State Department of Transportation. https://www.nysdot.gov/portal/page/portal/regional-offices/region5/projects/us-route-219-section5. Retrieved 2007-09-12. 
  32. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (2007). "US Route 219 (Springville to Salamanca)". New York State Department of Transportation. https://www.nysdot.gov/portal/page/portal/regional-offices/region5/projects/us-route-219. Retrieved 2007-09-12. 
  33. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (January 2009) (PDF). Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State. https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/repository/2009%20tour-bk.pdf. Retrieved July 17, 2009. 

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