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The New York State Thruway (officially the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway and colloquially "the Thruway") is a system of controlled-access toll roads spanning 569.83 miles (917.05 km) within the U.S. state of New York. It is operated by the New York State Thruway Authority (NYSTA), a New York State public-benefit corporation.
The route of what became I-84 through New York state began in the late 1940s, when the then-New York State Department of Public Works (now NYSDOT) was planning Gov. Thomas Dewey's proposed Thruway system. The plan was for the Thruway's main line to cross the river between Newburgh and Beacon, an area then in the middle of a 30-mile (48 km) gap ...
The New York State Thruway Authority had a project in the works to link exit 17 directly with I-84, bypassing NY 300; and reconstruct the interchange between NY 300 and I-84 (exit 36). Plans online showed this as a diamond junction for the Interstate 84/NY 300 link; but there are signals in place for a left turn not shown in the Thruway ...
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It’s January 1990, after dark, and I’m driving north on the NYS Thruway, in the vicinity of New Paltz. My car was a 1978 Ford Granada, four doors, 98 horsepowers on the day it left the factory.
The camera that consistently caught the most “speeders” was near Middletown High School, which reported 80% of vehicles going 10 miles per hour above the “lower” speed limit in the morning ...
The north–south highway left NY 17 at the hamlet of Ramapo and followed the modern New York State Thruway and I-287 corridors south through Hillburn to the New Jersey state line. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In the mid-1930s, the alignments of NY 17 and NY 339 south of Ramapo were swapped, placing NY 17 on the bypass and NY 339 on the Ramapo–Suffern route.
I-190 is a spur connecting the New York State Thruway at exit 53 near Buffalo to the Canada–United States border at Lewiston, north of Niagara Falls. [6] The portion of I-190 south of NY 384 is part of the New York State Thruway system. [12] I-190 is the only three-digit Interstate Highway that reaches the Canadian border. [11] I-278: 33.77: ...