New York State Route 16

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Allegany
Major intersections
North end NY 5 in Buffalo
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesCattaraugus, Erie
Highway system
← NY 15A→ NY 17

New York State Route 16 (NY 16) is a state highway in western New York, in the United States. It runs from the Pennsylvania state line, where it is one of the highest highways in the state in elevation, to downtown Buffalo. NY 16 is a major route through Erie County, despite the construction of the paralleling NY 400 expressway from East Aurora. In Cattaraugus County it also plays an important role, serving as the major connection from Olean to the Southern Tier Expressway (Interstate 86 or I-86 and NY 17). Between those two areas, and indeed for much of its length, it is a two-lane rural road.

NY 16 initially ended in Olean when it was assigned in 1924. It was extended south to the Pennsylvania state line in the early 1930s; however, it initially

overlapped NY 17 east to Portville, where it connected to Pennsylvania by way of modern NY 305
. NY 16's current alignment south of Olean was originally designated as New York State Route 16A around this time. NY 16 was rerouted to follow the routing of NY 16A south of Olean in August 1962.

Route description

Cattaraugus County

NY 16 southbound approaching the Pennsylvania state line

When

Olean (which, like several other communities in the region, takes its name from oil). It crosses the city as Union Street, intersecting its first state highway, NY 417, at State Street.[3] Here, ownership and maintenance of NY 16 shifts to the city for six blocks before becoming state-maintained once more at the point where North Union Street heads northwest to serve North Olean.[4]

A mile (1.6 km) north of NY 417, NY 16 reaches a bridge over

hamlet of Maplehurst, NY 446, the former route of NY 408, comes in from the east and terminates.[3]

NY 16 now follows the narrow valley of Ischua Creek, one of the Olean's tributaries, north past the road to the city's airport, in the town of Ischua, north to Franklinville. NY 98 joins NY 16 just south of the village and leaves north of it. NY 16 continues to Machias and the eastern end of NY 242. The highway veers to the northeast in Machias, turning back to the north at the resort hamlet of Lime Lake. A straight course takes the highway from this junction through the village of Delevan and to the Cattaraugus Creek bridge. This bridge heads into Erie County.[3]

Erie County

NY 16 on the Near East Side of Buffalo, looking southbound toward the Larkinville district

In the southeastern corner of the county, NY 16 intersects with

Moog Inc. North of the village, it enters the Town of Elma and becomes Seneca Street, the name it will retain all the way to the city.[3]

NY 78 takes on its best-known name as well when it leaves at Transit Road (

West Seneca. It crosses NY 277, a major retail strip, at Union Road in the hamlet of Ebenezer. One final trumpet exit to NY 400 (and by extension, the New York State Thruway) precedes its junction with Harlem Road (NY 240),[3] where county maintenance of NY 16, and thus the overlap with CR 572, ends.[5] Just west of NY 240, NY 16 crosses the Thruway itself as it begins to head to the northwest and enter the city of Buffalo,[3] where the route is locally maintained.[5] Running almost due northwest through the residential neighborhoods of South Buffalo, NY 16 reaches its last major junction, with US 62, at Bailey Avenue just after crossing the Buffalo River. Immediately afterwards it crosses I-190 with no exit (but with northbound access) and returns to a more east–west course through industrial areas before ending at Main Street, NY 5, in the city center.[3]

History

New York State Route 16A marker

New York State Route 16A

LocationPennsylvania state line–Olean
Existedc. 1932[6][7]–August 1962[8]

The portion of modern NY 16 between

Olean to Hinsdale was included in Route 4, a lengthy east–west route that extended from Lake Erie in Chautauqua County to the Hudson River in Orange County.[9][10] The portion from Olean south to the state line was part of the old "Kittanning Road," a road constructed by the Continental Army during the 1779 Sullivan Expedition that connected Kittanning, Pennsylvania to the Allegheny River; the road is among the oldest roads in the region.[11]

When the first set of posted routes in New York were assigned in 1924, much of Route 4—including the Olean–Hinsdale segment—was designated as

overlapped with NY 17 along former legislative Route 4 between Olean and Hinsdale.[2][12]

In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, NY 17 was realigned between Olean and Wellsville to follow modern NY 417, eliminating its overlap with NY 16.[13] By the following year, NY 16 was extended south to the Pennsylvania state line near Portville via NY 17 and what is now NY 305.[14][6] The modern routing of NY 16 between Pennsylvania and Olean was designated as NY 16A c. 1932.[6][7] The alignments of both NY 16 and NY 16A remained the same until August 1962 when NY 16A was supplanted by a rerouted NY 16. The former routing of NY 16 between the Pennsylvania state line and NY 17 became an extension of NY 305.[8]

The portion of the Aurora Expressway (

reference route.[1]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
Town of Allegany
0.000.00
 PA 646 south		Continuation into Pennsylvania
City of Olean
8.6913.99 NY 417 (State Street)
10.1316.30
Southern Tier Expressway – Salamanca, Binghamton
Exit 27 (I-86 / NY 17)
Southern Tier Expressway – Olean, Binghamton
Exit 28 (I-86 / NY 17)
16.4626.49
 NY 446 east – Cuba		Western terminus of NY 446
overlap
Farmersville31.4650.63
 NY 98 north – Rushford		Northern terminus of NY 16 / NY 98 overlap
Machias35.0756.44
 NY 242 west (Ashford Road)		Eastern terminus of NY 242
hamlet of Yorkshire
ErieSardinia44.8672.20
 NY 39 west – Springville		Northern terminus of NY 16 / NY 39 overlap
Town of Aurora
58.4394.03 NY 400Southern terminus of NY 16 / NY 400 overlap; southern terminus of NY 400
Olean Road (
NY 951V
)		Southern terminus of unsigned NY 951V; at-grade intersection
60.4297.24
 NY 400 north – Buffalo		Northern terminus of NY 16 / NY 400 overlap; interchange
Olean Road (
NY 951V
)		Northern terminus of unsigned NY 951V
US 20A east / NY 78
south (East Main Street)		Eastern terminus of US 20A / NY 16 and NY 16 / NY 78 overlaps
63.42102.06
US 20A
west (Hamburg Street)		Western terminus of US 20A / NY 16 overlap
NY 422
Elma–West Seneca line68.96110.98
 US 20 / NY 78 north (Transit Road)		Western terminus of NY 16 / NY 78 overlap
West Seneca72.35116.44 NY 277 (Union Road)
73.71118.62
I-90
Interchange
74.06119.19 NY 240 (Harlem Road / Orchard Park Road)
Buffalo76.44123.02 US 62 (Bailey Avenue)
76.69123.42
 I-190 north – Downtown		Exit 3 (I-190)
79.19127.44 NY 5 (Ellicott Street)Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also
  • List of county routes in Erie County, New York (545–580)

References

  1. ^ a b c "2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. pp. 129–130. Retrieved July 18, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times. December 21, 1924. p. XX9.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h New York State Map (Map). Cartography by Map Works Inc. I Love New York. 2008.
  4. ^ Olean Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1975. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
  5. ^ a b c "Erie County Inventory Listing" (CSV). New York State Department of Transportation. October 1, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
  6. ^
    Kendall Refining Company
    . 1931.
  7. ^
    Texas Oil Company
    . 1932.
  8. ^ a b "Highway Signs Have Been Changed". The Portville Star. August 2, 1962. p. 4. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  9. ^ State of New York Department of Highways (1909). The Highway Law. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 54–55, 60. Retrieved May 3, 2010.
  10. ^ New York State Department of Highways (1920). Report of the State Commissioner of Highways. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 502–505, 526. Retrieved May 3, 2010.
  11. ^ "State & Union: Seeking out Olean's Kittanning Avenue".
  12. Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1929.
  13. ^ Dickinson, Leon A. (January 12, 1930). "New Signs for State Highways". The New York Times. p. 136.
  14. ^ Road Map of New York (Map). Cartography by General Drafting. Standard Oil Company of New York. 1930.
  15. ^ New York Thruway (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. New York State Thruway Authority. 1971.
  16. Shell Oil Company
    . 1973.

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