Today, the NYSDOT gets to try out messages they haven’t used in a year and a half:
Delays Ahead
Watch for Stopped Traffic
Prepare to Stop
Appropiate Roads
Open-grate bridges have lost popularity ** Steel once made them a value for Valley, but none built recently. – The Morning Call
Some highway engineers have a mentality …
“Some highway engineers have a mentality … that would run an eight-lane freeway through the Taj Mahal. That is our problem.”
– Oregon Governor Tom McCall, 1970
Portland’s Demolished Freeway
NY 17 in Hale Eddy
Challenges in upgrading this part of the road to interstate standards.
Buskirk | New York State Covered Bridge Society
According to the NYSDOT, the Buskirk Covered bridge is the busiest in the state with an average of 835 cars per day using it. Built 1857, half a century before the first automobile crossed it, these days it sees 311,345 automobiles and trucks up to 12 tons cross it yearly.