6th March 2k4 started
off crummy and yuckies;
so I jumped into the Tempoo and did some biz and went visiting.
But by, like, 2.30pm, the skies cleared and it looked rather nice.
So I figured I'd take advatage of that by copping to some local snappage.
This is a multi-page feature. Advance to the next page by
clicking over
"More Boxing Week" at the bottom of the page. Poop-Up page.
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The
Wurts Street bridge over the Rondout Creek between Kingston and Port Ewen. Vintage 1921-before the Thruway, this was THE truck route to Albany. This was US 9W, and remains a reference route: 984D. This is the view north from Port Ewen. |
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A July 2k4 shot approaching from the north.
Note the 4-way signal. This is the replcement for the one shown on my second page. |
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Driving
across the bridge in the same direction as the last shot. Note the lamps attached to the suspension cable. |
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Driving
across the bridge southbound.
July 2k4 shot. |
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The south tower of the Wurts Street bridge. Note how the lamp lenses are held on with electrical tape! Guess they were out of duct tape, eh? That SPEED LIMIT 40 sign is about shot, too. |
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At
ground level here looking up at the bridge. |
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Looking
east on Dock Street toward The Koenig Blvd(US 9W) bridge. Roundout Creek is to your right, and you can see docks for the marina stacked along the side of the road. |
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The
southern end of Frank Koenig Blvd(US 9W) in Port Ewen. You're southbound, and the road to the right leads to the old bridge. US 9W turns into Broadway here, and the dual carriageway ends. |
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A
cutout Kingston-Rhinecliff trailblazer. This is northbound at the above junction. The snap is a couple of years old, but this sign is still there(as of this writing). It's no longer reflective. This is one of about 6 that I know of in Kingston. These are the only cut-out trailblazers for the NYSBA bridges. |
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Northbound
on Koenig Blvd-US 9W bypassing Kingston to the east. This is just past the above junction; and the Roundout Creek bridge is just ahead. |
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Northbound
on Koenig Blvd-US 9W. There are two signalized junctions-this is the southern one Garraghan Drive, near the Kingston Police headquarters. |
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Further
up the road is the Delaware Avenue elevated junction. This features some old, but reflective button-copy signage. The bridge in the foreground is for a railway-long gone, of course. |
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Now
a good bit further north on Ulster County Highway 37- Ulster Landing Road. This is under the western approach to the Kingston-Rhinecliff bridge. |
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Two
views from the above shot. The left looking west, the right, east. Ulster Landing Road is the only road that goes beneath the bridge. |
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A
straight up shot-looking at the underside of the bridge. |
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On
NY 199 east approaching the bridge Toll Plaza. This is soon to be redone with a third lane added for E-ZPass traffic. |
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On
the western bridge approach. |
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Still
on the western approach; Very near where Ulster Landing Road is crossed- That's where the fences are. |
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Mid-Span
on the Rhinecliff Bridge. This is west of earlier snaps. NYSBA usually flies the flag on the Rhinecliff bridge 24-7. It makes intermittent appearances on the Newburgh and Mid-Hudson bridges. |
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At
the NY 9D junction. This assembly shows the “Reverse” Taconic Parkway Shield. These were posted when NY 9D was redone in 1999. Subseqyently NYSDOT has reverted to the standard white-on-green shield, making these rare(the snap shows the full assembly). |
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The
NY 9D and NY 308 junction is elevated. NY 9D is two lanes thru the junction with accel/decel lanes; Here you're looking east at the bridge from the southbound slip road. |
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The
eastern END of NY 308 at NY 199 in Rock City. To turn back to Red Hook you veer to the left. This junction favors traffic to the Taconic-Eastbound. |
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NY
199 between Rock City and the Taconic Parkway. Near the junction of Dutchess County Highway 15. |
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On
the Taconic Parkway southbound, just past the NY 199 JN.
The central reservation narrows and is guarded near bridges. |
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A
compromise on central reservation closures. This crossing is for “Emergency Responders Only”, but if it's like any other freeway U-turn in NY, everybody and their brother uses it. |
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Not
my best shot ever, but it shows Region 8's signing stylee. County highways are usually indicated, and the road name is boxed in Series “D” font. |
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The
DC 19 junction, showing most of the sign and a fairly modern overpass. The Slip roads get accel-decel lanes, too. There is no hard shoulder, but on this section of the parkway, there is a built shoulder you can pull up on. |
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Further
south, we have crummy, bumpy concrete. This surface prolly dates from the opening of the road. Bah @ NYSDOT. |
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Mileposts
on the Taconic. Freeway-style mileposting is now on the Taconic. The thumb shows a full milepost, the poopup has both full and 10th mile markers. These are not as big as those on NY 17 the numbers are horizontal on full posts-on NY 17 they're vertical. The Taconic is NOT a freeway, but NYSDOT likes to maintain that happy illusion. |
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At
MP 62, we have this area of pavement on the offiside. A service area? If so, it's the farthest north one so far. There is a crossover nearby, and service areas pop up near crossovers north of the IH 84. |
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A
little better looking concrete here.... |
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The
Salt Point Turnpike junction: NY 115 to the west; DC CH 17 to the east. |
Hollow
Road junction. Hollow Road(DC CH 14) is yet another casualty of the reservation closure frenzy. But this one is different: Hollow Road south of NY 115 to the Taconic has been completely shut off. Dutchess County has not decertified the route(or any other broken route for that matter), making it the only dead-end in the county system. There is a junction for Hibernia Road immediately south but the northbound access to the remainder of Hollow Road is open. Figure THAT one out. |
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Hollow
Road-looking at the gravel berm that closes it off. Dutchess County put in a small bit of road so traffic can pull up and turn around here. |
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Looking
at the Taconic from the top of the gravel berm. Typical treatment for a closed crossover is supplemented by a guiderail. The kerbing on either side of the road has amber catseyes on top: I think the nearside should have been white... |
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Looking
back at Hollow Road from the Taconic. All the signs remain in place as if this were still an active junction. |
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Looking
southbound on the Taconic at Hollow Road. The crossroad sign still stands, as well(in the poop-up); and there are no turn prohibition signs posted. |
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Now
we have the only other “Bannered” highway in this area- and only one of a handful in the state. This is a recent addition here. NYSDOT posted this to divert trucks from the center of Millbrook. This is eastbound. Most local drivers know to take NY 44A to bypass the village; but if you're not local, you probably don't. This is posted in the applicable direction only; and not throughout the NY 44A mainline. |
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The
west end of NY 44A-looking south into the junction shown above. |
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The
east end of NY 44A at US 44, north of the Village of Millbrook. There is no END sign. You get the only mainline “Truck US 44” sign in the poop-up. |
