New York State Route 60

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Dunkirk city
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
CountiesChautauqua
Highway system
← NY 59→ NY 61

New York State Route 60 (NY 60) is a north–south

Interstate 86 or I-86 and NY 17) in Ellicott, and the New York State Thruway (I-90
) in the town of Dunkirk.

Route description

NY 60 begins at an intersection with

I-86/NY 17). After the interchange, the route continues northward as North Main Street Extension, passing Moon Brook Country Club.[5]

Now north of Jamestown, NY 60 begins to become a two-lane rural highway, passing to the northeast and serving an industrial park adjacent to

CR 66 (Sinclair Drive). After leaving Sinclairville, NY 60 re-enters the town of Gerry, becoming a rural farm road before entering the town of Charlotte.[5]

NY 60 at CR 58 in Cassadaga

Through Charlotte, NY 60 continues northward as a two-lane local road, entering the hamlet of Moons, which consists of a few farms and residences. The route becomes largely rural once again through Charlotte, turning to the northwest and intersecting with

CR 72 (Bard Road). Paralleling the nearby Upper Lake, the route leaves the village for the town of Pomfret, becoming a two-lane roadway through woods and some residences through the hamlet of Shumla. Shumla consists of several residences before entering the hamlet of Laona, where NY 60 intersects with the northern terminus of NY 83. Laona consists of several farms and residences before leaving north of the intersection with Eagle Road.[5]

NY 60 southbound in Dunkirk, erroneously signed as US 60

Leaving Laona, NY 60 continues northward through a rural backdrop bending to the north at an intersection with Lakeview Road. After this point, NY 60 enters the village of

Nickel Plate Railroad line[8] and enters the city of Dunkirk as Lamphere Street until East Seventh Street. After that intersection, NY 60 becomes known as Maple Drive until Sixth Street, where it becomes Main Street. The route passes some businesses before crossing under a former New York Central Railroad line[8] currently used by CSX Transportation. A short distance after the underpass, NY 60 reaches its northern terminus at the intersection with NY 5 (Lake Shore Drive) near the shores of Lake Erie.[5]

History

When NY 60 was assigned in the mid-1920s, it began at the

NY 20A (modern NY 5) in Dunkirk by way of Temple Street and Central Avenue as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.[9]

NY 60 at the intersection with CR 72 in Cassadaga

overlapped NY 60.[10][11] The overlap was eliminated in the 1940s when NY 60 was truncated northward to its junction with US 62 in Frewsburg.[12][13] In the mid-1960s, construction began on a new alignment for US 62 between the Pennsylvania state line and NY 60 west of Frewsburg.[14][15] The highway opened to traffic as a realignment of US 62 by 1972. As a result, NY 60 was truncated to its junction with the new US 62 roadway and the routing of former NY 60 to Frewsburg became part of US 62 on July 1, 1972.[16]

NY 60 was realigned in the early 1960s to bypass Fredonia to the east on a newly upgraded highway leading from Laona to Reed Corners (US 20). From there, NY 60 was to follow a new highway to a point on Central Avenue near where it passes under the New York State Thruway, where it would continue into Dunkirk on its original alignment.[14][17] By 1968, the idea of constructing a new roadway was dropped and NY 60 was altered to use Bennett Road, Lamphere Street, and Main Street instead to reach East Lake Shore Drive (NY 5).[15][18] The section of Main Street north of Franklin Street had been part of NY 39 from 1930 to the mid-1960s, when NY 39 was cut back to its current western terminus.[9][14][15]

The former routing of NY 60 between Laona and US 20 in the center of Fredonia remained state maintained as an unsigned

reference route for over a decade after it ceased to be part of NY 60.[19] On April 1, 1980, ownership and maintenance of the reference route was transferred from the state of New York to Chautauqua County as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government.[20] The highway is now internally designated as County Highway 140 by Chautauqua County;[21] however, it does not have a signed number.[citation needed
]

NY 60 has been particularly prone to a large number of automobile crashes that lead to fatalities. Since 1972, 82 fatal car crashes have been documented on the highway. The high traffic on the two-lane highway, which is the main road between Jamestown and Dunkirk, makes it difficult and dangerous for vehicles to pass.[22]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Chautauqua County.

Locationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
Kiantone0.000.00 US 62 (West Main Street) – Frewsburg, Warren PASouthern terminus
NY 952P
south (Forest Avenue)		Northern terminus of NY 952P
4.156.68
overlap
4.276.87
 NY 394 east (West Fifth Street)		Eastern terminus of NY 60 / NY 394 overlap
4.336.97
 NY 394 west (West Sixth Street)
5.218.38
 NY 430 west (Fluvanna Avenue)		Eastern terminus of NY 430
Southern Tier Expressway – Binghamton, Erie PA
Exit 12 (I-86 / NY 17)
Kimball Stand
CR 58 (Maple Avenue) – Mayville
Former northern terminus of NY 424
Hamlet of Laona
; northern terminus of NY 83
Fredonia30.3148.78 US 20 (East Main Street) – Fredonia, Silver Creek
I-90 Toll / New York Thruway – Erie, Buffalo
Exit 59 (I-90 / Thruway)
LECT
(Lake Shore Drive)		Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State" (PDF). New York State Department of Transportation. June 16, 2009. p. 200. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers". The New York Times. December 21, 1924. p. XX9.
  3. ^
    Rand McNally and Company
    . 1926. Retrieved June 19, 2009.
  4. ISBN 1-58248-196-2
    .
  5. ^ a b c d e Microsoft; Nokia (April 11, 2012). "overview map of NY 60" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  6. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (January 2017). Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State (PDF). Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  7. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (January 2012). Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycling Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State (PDF). Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  8. ^
    Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum. 2012. Archived from the original
    on September 21, 2013. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  9. ^
    Standard Oil Company of New York
    . 1930.
  10. Kendall Refining Company
    . 1931.
  11. Texas Oil Company
    . 1932.
  12. ^ New York Road-Map (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Gulf. 1940.
  13. ^ New York with Pennsylvania (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Texaco. 1946.
  14. ^ a b c New York and Metropolitan New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Sinclair Oil Corporation. 1964.
  15. ^ a b c New York (Map) (1969–70 ed.). Cartography by General Drafting. Esso. 1968.
  16. State of New York Department of Transportation
    . pp. 1–2.
  17. ^ New York and Metropolitan New York (Map). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. Sinclair Oil Corporation. 1962.
  18. ^ New York Thruway (Map) (10th ed.). Cartography by Rand McNally and Company. New York State Thruway Authority. 1971.
  19. ^ Dunkirk Digital Raster Quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. New York State Department of Transportation. 1978. Retrieved July 19, 2009.
  20. ^ New York State Legislature. "New York State Highway Law § 341". Retrieved July 19, 2009.
  21. ^ New York State Department of Transportation (March 2, 2009). "Region 5 Inventory Listing". Archived from the original on April 19, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2009.
  22. ^ Rizzuto, Robert (June 21, 2009). "No Simple Explanation: Many Reasons Why Wrecks Continue To Plague Route 60". The Post-Journal. Jamestown, NY. Retrieved June 21, 2009.

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