The Right Honourable Comrade Herr Doktor Don Ottorino Yamamoto, BFMAP, SALF, FSB Saddled up his quasi-trusty 88-88 crapmobile, and loaded with caffiene, nicotine and an 8 hour Minidisc full of Bhangra, Reggae and Dub Weirdness, Took to the road to bring you yet more of the spiffenest road snapz in the Boxing Day Blowout! tradition. The Route: US 44-NY 55 and US 209 to Ellenville NY 52 from Ellenville to Liberty Old Highway 17(county highways)/NY 17 freeway from Liberty to Binghamton IH 81 and IH 88 from Binghamton to Oneonta NY 28 from Oneonta to Kingston.
	A forgotten bridge on an old alignment of NY 52 west of Ellenville. The roadbed is long gone, and this is all that’s left. The view is east.
	Looking west, now. The berm of snow is what’s been plowed off the road I used to get here.
	At stream level on the west branch of the Beer Kill.
	The bridge I was actually looking for; A bit east of the one above.
	Looking west across this, you can see the bushes someone’s planted. Look for a spring or summer version of these snaps.
	Heading into Liberty on NY 52.
	Crossing NY 17 at j100 on NY 52, there used to be an island on this bridge, but it was removed, for reasons unknown. the reservation is now marked by painted lines.
	West of the overpass, the road has been narrowed. This was four lanes, and the original road edge is marked by the lamps on wooden poles. They are also still the working lights; as the aluminum ones haven’t been turned on yet.
	Approaching the mini-roundabout at the j100 eastbound off slip.
	Ground-level view of the roundabout and signage.
	This shot is from South Main Street; overlooking the junction. the off-slip from NY 52 east to NY 17 east is visible.
	And the NY 52 west to NY 17 west off slip. this is now a mandatory turn. You’ve seen the Summariffic® direction sign before. I doubt it will survive the final phase of the reconstruction. There is a concrete pedestal in place for a half-gantry.
	The roundabout is small and tight; even more so than the one at Thruway j19 at Kingston. Large articulateds find this a joy, I'll wager. Wonder how long it will be before the signs get clipped.
	You’ve seen this on Gribblenation. It’s still here. This is Lake and Main Streets in Liberty. At night you can see a “NY” on the NY 52 sine.
	Another old reverse CURVE sine. Sullivan County has a LOT of these.
	Another view of the horribly foreshortened NY 52 island at NY 17 j100.
	Heading north on Sullivan County 151 in search of...
	...The Beaverkill Covered Bridge!
	Informative Hysterical marker and NO TRUCKS sine. One would hope that a person driving a large lorry would the sense not to try crossing this bridge; but as we all know, Mr. Darwin’s work is far from done...
	A shot of the bridge from the west bank of the Beaver Kill.
	You don’t reckon they’re trying to tell us something here, then?
	Here’s a colour shot of the above. What the hell, it's only bandwidth.
	Inside, we catch some wood. We also learn the bridge’s name; which is oddly appropriate.
	Here’s how they bung the whole thing together: with these wooden “treenails” -see below for an explanation.
	A rare sight in NY, this sort of embossed sine. Even more so along a town road. Note the improvised pointer.
	Rilly informative sine at the Livingston Manor Covered Bridge Park. The Beaver Kill Bridge is related(hillbillies; they’re ALL cousins), so the bit about construction techniques applies to that bridge, too.
	South view of the bridge. It’s asymmetrical which is unusual and cool.
	Informative hysterical marker re this bridge.
	Looking through the bridge from trhe south.
	And inside, It’s delicious! And I’d wager Herr Doktor Sigmund Freud would have a thought or two about this snap.
	On the way to Roscoe on Sullivan County 178 or 179.
	The BEGINNING!(or END!, depending on yr POV) of NY 206 in Roscoe.
	At the west end of Roscoe-the junction of Sullivan CH 91(NY 206) and CH 179a. The sign is unusual, being all caps. Sullivan County uses mixed case Series “C”.
	A spiffy little truss bridge over the Beaver Kill on Sullivan CH 179a west of Roscoe.
	Sullivan CH 179a fixing to go down a hill west of Roscoe.
	Crossing into Delaware County where old NY 17 is County Highway 17. What a concept!
	A bit of CH 17 decided to relocate downhill here. STOP signs control movement in the area. YIELD sines would work as well; there’s NO traffic....
	Delaware County Highway 17. The surface is rougher(read chEEper) than the Sullivan County CH 17X series.
	Cooks Falls. Straight on takes you along an even older version of NY 17 that hugs the Beaver Kill. Not much interesting on it, sadly.
	Homebrew direction sine at Cooks Falls. It bips®
	NY 17 overpass of CH 17 at Cooks Falls.
	Up the road at Horton, one runs into this nice surprise: An old truss bridge over the Beaver Kill near NY 17 j92. This one is unusual in that it has a steel deck. I think this is a Croton Bridge joint, The nameplate was too high to tell. There are also brackets for weight restriction sines. Just for perspective, I threw in the freeway bridge crossing near here.
	And talk about yr surprises, west of Horton, Delaware County Highway 17 runs below the NY 17 freeway. The Beaver kill is to the south(left). I’ve been atop this viaduct a lot of times and thought nothing of it. Now I know why it’s here!
	The Burnwood Road bridge over the Beaver Kill at East Branch, NY.
	At Fishs Eddy(goddam fishs!), Delaware County Highway 28 passes over this bridge. This looks to be an old railway bridge, because it’s both heavy and narrow. The New York, Ontario and Western Railway went through Fishs Eddy I suspect that this is one of the railway’s bridges.
	Sines at the Delaware CH 28 and CH 17 junction.
	Looking east over NY 17 from the City Brook Road overpass. Between Hancock(ew!) and Fishs Eddy.
	End of the freeway westbound near Hale Eddy. One of the two sections of NY 17 that still have level junctions East of Binghamton.
	Silver Lake Road level junction on NY 17
	NY 17 westbound near Hale Eddy.
	NY 17(soon to be IH 86)j79 at Windsor. Nice how the junction and touring route number match, eh?
	Looking west on NY 17 at j78-Occanum. County Highway 28(old NY 17 but not rilly) runs side-by-side with the westbound carriageway for a mile or so. This was a scary section with level junctions and no turning lanes in 1998.
	NY 17’s junctions with the IH 81. Westbound approaching the IH 81 you have j75; then NY 17 and IH 81 are concurrent between IH 81 j2 and a scary un-numbered junction that's half over the Chenango River and abuts against a great huge hill. On NY 17 immediately west of the junction is the Justly famous and scary “Kamikaze Curve” NY 17 skips junction numbers 73 and 74 Some maps show these numbers as concurrent with IH 81 j3[74] and j4[73]; and the western IH 81 junction has no number.
	IH 81 and IH 88 meet at an incomplete junction north of IH 81 j5. There’s the great fault in sequential junction numbering: What to do with junctions bunged in later. This junction has another fault: no southbound IH 81 to eastbound IH 88 link. South to east traffic has to U-turn at j5-Making two lefts at traffic lights. Cheaper than a flyover, I guess.
	From j1 to j2 the IH 88 is squished between two outer(“service”) roads. There’s not a lot of room here.
	NYSDOT likes to do weird things to guide sine shield cutouts. like this huge shield w/Series “D” numbers maximally kerned. You could fit all known prime numbers into that shield in Series “D”. The short lines between the painted lane lines are NYSDOT’s dirt chEEp replacement for cat’s eyes, which have an abnormally short lifespan in this state. How effective are they? Let’s just say you get what you pay for.
	A nice long shot of IH 88 between j3 and j4.
	NY 7 and IH 88 prepare to part company. the concurrency extends from j1 to j4; then NY 7 is separate from there. NY 7 is much longer than the IH 88-going from PA to VT.
	The IH 88 is crawler lane-oriffic, having them along most of the length of the motorway. sometimes they’re even needed.
	Hot under and over action, or over and under. Whatever. This is the Susquehanna River bridge near Harpursville. The overpass is Broome County Highway 233, Windsor Road.
	Approaching j7 for Afton, actually a trumpet junction that links into NY 41
	And we cross swords w/NY 206 again. It's a L-O-N-G and tedious way back to Roscoe from here...
	Besides the entertaining SINE! You can see how crappy the conkr33t has gotten on this freeway. It comes close to phazing the 88-88's squishy grampa suspension. Sort of, anyway.
	More Krappy Konkr33t pron! At least part of this highway was going thru a massive overhaul. This bit’s due fer sure.
	It was getting on in the day, and the snaps were starting to SuXor; but I still managed this old stylee CURVE sine on NY 28 between Oneonta and Delhi in Delaware County.
	Two horsie pony COW! trusses inna David Backlin Stylee; over the West Branch of the Delaware in Delhi on NY 28.