New York State Route 259
Route information | ||||
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Maintained by NYSDOT | ||||
Length | 17.11 mi[1] (27.54 km) | |||
Existed | 1930[2]–present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | NY 33A in Chili | |||
I-490 in Chili NY 531 near Spencerport | ||||
North end | Lake Ontario State Parkway in Parma | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | New York | |||
Counties | Monroe | |||
Highway system | ||||
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New York State Route 259 (NY 259) is a north–south
All of NY 259 south of Curtis Road in Parma was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York. The route was extended north to the Lake Ontario shoreline in the late 1950s to meet the Lake Ontario State Parkway. This northward extension was originally maintained by Monroe County as the unsigned County Route 226 (CR 226); however, ownership and maintenance of CR 226 south of the Lake Ontario State Parkway was transferred from Monroe County to the state of New York in 2007 as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government.
Route description
Like Manitou Road in
In Ogden, NY 259 takes a direct north–south alignment between the town line and the village of Spencerport. Over this stretch, NY 259 meets NY 531 (the Spencerport Expressway) by way of an interchange. In Spencerport, NY 259 meets NY 31, becoming South Union Street, and crosses over the Erie Canal, at which point the route becomes North Union Street. North of the village, the route becomes Union Street again, swerves to the northeast and enters the town of Parma before returning to a northerly alignment at an intersection with NY 104 in the hamlet of Parma Corners.[3]
To the north of NY 104, NY 259 is known as Hilton–Parma Corners Road as it heads through a rural portion of the town. It intersects
History
NY 259 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York to the portion of its modern alignment between NY 33A in Chili and Curtis Road in Parma.[2] The route was extended north toward the Lake Ontario shoreline in the late 1950s to meet the Lake Ontario State Parkway.[4][5] This northward extension was initially maintained by Monroe County as CR 226, an unsigned route that continued north of the parkway to the lake along North Avenue.[6] In 2007, ownership and maintenance of CR 226 south of the Lake Ontario State Parkway was transferred from Monroe County to the state of New York as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government. A bill (S4856, 2007) to enact the swap was introduced in the New York State Senate on April 23 and passed by both the Senate and the New York State Assembly on June 20. The act was signed into law by Governor Eliot Spitzer on August 28. Under the terms of the act, it took effect 90 days after it was signed into law; thus, the maintenance swap officially took place on November 26, 2007.[7] The entirety of NY 259 is now state-maintained. CR 226, meanwhile, no longer exists in any form as the remainder of the route north to the lakeshore was transferred to the town of Parma by March 2009.[8]
Major intersections
The entire route is in Monroe County.
Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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hamlet of West Chili | |||||
0.16 | 0.26 | I-490 – Rochester | Exit 4 (I-490) | ||
1.88 | 3.03 | NY 33 | Hamlet of North Chili | ||
Ogden | 5.96 | 9.59 | NY 531 to I-490 | Interchange | |
Spencerport | 6.19 | 9.96 | NY 31 | ||
Parma | 11.68 | 18.80 | NY 104 | Hamlet of Parma Corners | |
11.68 | 18.80 | overlap ; hamlet of Parma Center | |||
Hilton | 13.77 | 22.16 | NY 18 west | Northern terminus of NY 18 / NY 259 overlap | |
Parma | 17.11 | 27.54 | Lake Ontario State Parkway | Northern terminus | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
References
- ^ a b "2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. p. 279. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
- ^ Standard Oil Company of New York. 1930.
- ^ a b c Microsoft; Nokia (August 13, 2015). "overview map of NY 259" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
- ^ New York with Special Maps of Putnam–Rockland–Westchester Counties and Finger Lakes Region (Map) (1958 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1958.
- Gulf Oil Company. 1960.
- ^ Hilton Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1997. Retrieved May 11, 2009.
- ^ New York State Legislature. "Bills of New York State – bill number-based search". Retrieved February 5, 2010.
- ^ New York State Department of Transportation (March 2, 2009). "Region 4 Inventory Listing". Retrieved May 11, 2009.
External links
- New York State Route 259 at New York Routes