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Spiffy button copy Gantry sine on US 9 at IH 87 and IH 287.
Southbound advance sign for the "“I-8” Junction 8 on IH 87;
This is where the IH 287 splits off as the Cross Westchester Expressway.
This is a new box(vs. triangular) gantry.

Going under the northbound IH 87 on the IH 287.
Further down the road here at JN 9 on the CWE. This is where the IH 684 splits off.
This is eastbound. The junction plate is new, but the rest of the sign is old.
Further yet down the road at the eastern end of the CWE at IH 95.
You're looking south, on the US 1 overpass.
Same shot as above-Different angle.
Looking across the junction now-the slip road from IH 95 north
is the ramp joining at the left; the off slip for IH 95 south leaves
at the right.
Looking north at the same overpass.

The entrance sign for the IH 287 on US 1 south.
There is a shopping center to the east of the freeway.
Signs at the junction on US 1. The big picture also shows a newer,
standard IH 95 trailblazer.
Back on the IH 287 westbound, heading toward JN 10.
JN 10 eastbound is for NY 120 and 120A.
Advance warning for the junction with the Hutchinson River Parkway.
A NYSDOT sign.
Back to the IH 684 junction again. Facing westbound now.

The third snap is the flyovers linking the IH 684 to the IH 287.
Pure Thruway signage here: The road name is in all caps:
Standard practise around here, but the “Thruway Font” is used.
The junction plate is also rounded, per Thruway practise.

Construction warning for road works starting past JN 6 heading westbound.
Old NYSDOT signage here for junction 4 westbound.
Approaching junction 3 westbound.
Here's a newer sign and a bridge undergoing reconstruction.
At the off slip for the Sprain Brook Parkway.
Another NYSDOT text sign, probably dating from the Thruway takeover of the IH 287,
if not quite some time before.

Well I'd planned to run thru the “I-8” westbound, but as you can see,
that wasn't happening. :)
Okay, you've never been to this area. Can you figure out what THIS sine means?
This replaces an old sine that said just the same thing.

If you're feeling a bit vertiginous, don't worry,
I made a couple of trips on the CWE to grab these snaps.
You're back eastbound on the short section of the freeway that's completely rebuilt at JN 5.
The spiffy flyover is part of the “grand entrance” to downtown White Plains.
Get off here, and you end up on a huge and confusing boulevard.
You can get lost really easy here.JNS 6 and 8 also lead to the same general area
and there are lotsa lanes and signals and NO signs.

Look closely at the left side of this snap.
Dunno when they're going to set this right.
This bridge has been this way for at least 2 years.
(as of 27th Dec 2k3)

This is the signal setup on the feeder road at junction 9 eastbound on the IH 287.
on your left, traffic from the freeway feeds in and in order to get to the southbound Hutch,
has to cross directly in front of my viewpoint here.
To the far left is the lane that's used to continue on the feeder road to the northbound Hutch. These are PV lights-a fair rarity in this area.
There are warnings about impaired headroom on the bridges on the southbound Hutch,
since some truckers ignore the fact that the road is posted “PASSENGER CARS ONLY”
in advance-about a gazillion times.
You've seen this before: on my June 2k2 Page.
The feeder roads for IH 287 from JN8 to JN 10 are “Westchester Ave.”
Signals and maintenance are done by Westchester County.
Following this eventually leads to NY 120.
And here we are westbound again after the U-Turn at the NY 120A JN.
With a rare example of new signage.
Approximately opposite of the signal snap above.
The signs are NYSDOT.

War Criminal signage on the IH 287 feeder.
Now maybe if I were someone else,
I might get all indignant and fire off blistering e-mails to NYSDOT.
But then, I've seen enough of this to know they just don't care.
And what the hey, it makes for good snaps and commentary then, doesn't it?

Here's the on-slip to IH 684 from Westchester Ave, advertised by some fairly decent old sines.

More old sines. We're coming up alongside JN 8 westbound; and we get a greenout
with Westchester Mall Place in “Thruway Font”, probably replacing an IH 287 shield.
Nobody does “cheap” better than NY in signage, except California.
The results are the same :P

Another weird junction where funny turns are allowed
White Plains Avenue is the crossroad here.
This may be the only signal installation on a gantry in this part of the state.

Another grampa sine just beyond the above light.
This is the only ground level sign with a button-copy IH 287 shield.
I doubt that the NY 119 shield was ever button copy, NY hasn't
ever gone in for that as far as I know; preferring text in a case like that.

Okay, let's get you disornamented here.
Now I'm headed north on the Hutchinson River Parkway at the IH 684 split
just north of the IH 287.
Heading NE on the Hutch now.
Oddly we have a local road name that is neither in all caps or boxed.

Junction 30 on the Hutch.
This is just short of the CT state line and “EXIT 27”.
I just love the 4-digit sheild on the sign.
I think that could be done a bit better, but what do I know?
The state line where the Hutchinson River Parkway becomes the Merritt Parkway,
the actual state line and Merritt JN 27 are just beyond the bridge.
Unfortunately my camera doesn't cycle fast enough and there wasn't any place to pull up
so I could get a buncha state line snaps. Maybe I should have pulled off the parkway.
:P @ me.
On the Merritt at milepost 1, now.
The guiderails you see were put in just recently.
A speed reduction warning for a works area ahead.
CT doesn't do the “Work Zone” panel or temporary signage like NY
They just post normal signage. The upcoming zone was 40mph,
which everybody ignored, and continued right along at 65 mph.
Just a sporkin' nifty bridge here. Not common on the parts of the Merritt that I've been on.
Also note the groove in the asphalt there.
That was the right margin line for when they recently
redid the shoulder and installed the guide rail.
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