Together again for the first time! A 2k2 jaunt to Albany to look at ROADS!
This is a consolidation of 3 pages. They’re more or less in sequence.
Most of the commentary is taken directly from the original pages.
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| Two views from an intersection on the New Albany Shaker Road:
The first looking north onto an open section that is currently 2 lanes, the second looking onto the unopened dual-carriageway section. This will be posted a county road, but the work is NYSDOT standard. |
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| On the move southbound on the Albany Shaker Road.
That’s Doug Kerr's CR-V. The road doesn’t have it’s final seal yet, Note that the surfacing isn't flush to the kerb. |
| A look at a spiffy High Performance concrete junction at Albany Shaker Road and Watervilet Shaker Road. |
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| The south end of the road works near the Albany Airport.
Again, an open section that provides access to a new hotel to the north. When the work is finished, it'll be dual carriageway from the airport north to NY 7. New signals have gone up but are not turned on yet, accounting for the apparent plethora of lights at the junction. |
| NY 155 passing by Albany International Airport. |
| NY 155 approaching the IH 87 junction. |
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| Albany County 151 is concurrent with NY 155;
the NY 155 posting here isn't all that great. You'll note the signs are kinda old.... |
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| The junction with Albany Co 157.
The off font is pretty obvious, the border doesn't match the way the sign is cut, and "Albany County" is all over the place, never mind having 3 digits on a 2-digit blank... |
| Ancient flashing beacons on mast arms on NY 155. |
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I mentioned Albany County sign recycling a few pages back;
where I’d found a sign that had been painted, turned over and had a new number put on. The little blue stickies on the arrow plates in the left shot read ‘[19]91’, which is the vintage of most of the Albany County signs I've seen thus far. |
| Holy Guacamole, had the world only known the future treachery shown in this snap! |
| On this sign, the numbers have faded to white with a black border,
This is pretty common. Your tour guide is Chris Jordan |
| A sign assembly at the IH 87-Albany County Highway 153 jn.
This is at Northway junction 4. |
| NYSDOT and Albany County DPW meet. Would be nice to have an arrow plate for CH 151, wouldn’t it? |
| The reverse of the above assembly.
DPW didn’t even bother painting this one over. Whatever. |
| Wolf Road parallels IH 87 at the east in the j2-4 area. |
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| Approaching Junction 1 on the Northway:
Here we have two relative NY rarities: A diagrammatic sign and a box gantry. There are 4 box gantries on the Northway between jns 1-11 as of 8-2002-all southbound; 3 of which have been set up in the last 6 months. New NYSDOT standards call for this gantry specification, so as the old triangular gantries come down, this style will replace it. |
| The short stub of the Northway from junction 1 to US 20 at Crossgates Mall in Albany is NY Reference route 910F.
This may be an eventual direct link to the Thruway. I like the ‘HIGHWAY ENDS’ sign. Not ‘Freeway’ or even ‘Expressway’, just ‘Highway’. |
| Toy sines at Crossgates Mall.
Crossgates has a circular road running round it, with traffic lights and such, and even a few NYSDOT half-gantries; and then it has these signs made up by somebody’s kid . Look at the top sign, the arrow is just pop riveted on over an arrow pointing the opposite way; and the Thruway blazer is off-the real one doesn’t have the state break the circle(that happens on the Thruway Authority symbol). Of course the font is off, and yip, yip, yip, meow, then. |
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| IH 90 eastbound. Here’s a gantry that spans the road near Junction 5A.
This was to have been the eastern IH 687 junction. Capital Highways has the skinny on this. |
| Approaching the US 9 stack at j6.
US 9 is a short bit of freeway extending just about 3/4 mile on either side of the stack. Note the services sign-not a bipping® logo sines(I hate those)! |
| The US 9 stack. US 9 goes over the top.
Note the center pier, this structure supports all 3 elevated levels. It looks pretty spiffy to boot. |
| Approach signage for the IH 787 junction.
This junction is un-numbered for whatever bizarre reason(It’s since been numbered 6A). On the IH 787 side, however, it has a junction number. At most major junctions signage is very good with lots of advance warning, so it’s hard to make a mistake. People do just the same.... Note the milepost in the top snap: that's how NYSDOT Region 1 does tenth-mileposts. Nebraska also does this style. Anybody at FWHA watching? |
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| Approaching j4b on the IH 787. |
| Looking into the circle stack on IH 787 southbound.
There's a shiny bit that kinda obscures the IH 787 pull-thru, but you can still see how it's narrow at the top and fat at the bottom to accommodate the arrows. I've only seen this style of pull-thru in NY. There are very few of these that I've encountered. For a much better snap of Albany's Circle stack, nip by Capital Highways where you'll see a snap of this junction fit to steal (Albany City DGS thought so anyway). |
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Gribblenation Albany-Shaker Page Capital Highways 2k3 Albany Road Meat! The All-Nite Images Main Site Index Original pages done in 2k2.Page coauthored by Frank The Cat. Whether I like it or not! |
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