


Here's
what you get when you lose your toll ticket on the Thruway.
I
have this nasty habit of sailing thru the EZ-Pass booths when not in
the company van.
You
have to fill one of these out, too, with name address and license number.
Hope
I don't get a nasty surprise
in the mail.

Oh,
gosh, now where did THIS come from?
Note
that it only covers the Thruway to Station 50 east of Buffalo.
If
you continue on the Erie section(West of Buffalo) you get another ticket.

Coming
up on Harriman northbound.
The
Toll Plaza warning is Thruway day-glo; which doesn't photograph well.

Approaching
the southern end of the ticketed section at Harriman.
The
mainline booth is considered Station 15-Woodbury, and costs
extra-look at the tickets above.
If
you're southbound and leave the Thruway at Harriman, it's 45 cents
cheaper-figure THAT one out.


Two shots of the Harriman toll plaza. Up til 2002 there were booths that accepted exact change.


I've
been wanting to get a shot of this for an age: The guide sine from HELL.
You
do have time to read it, cos you're just coming up to speed after
leaving the Harriman toll plaza.
Still
it's a lot to comprehend while in motion. The lower snap is the sign
in context.

Looking north over the Thruway south of JN 16.


The
forgotten section of NY 17.
This
has a reference number and all that, as well as traffic signals,
and
a section of box-girder center railing, amazingly intact.
In
the distance there is a link to IH 287 south to NJ.
There
used to be cutout circles for south NJ 17, these have all been
replaced by the NY shield.

The
end of the line for old NY 17, just short of the NJ border.
You
can see the IH 287 south ramp from the southbound Thruway in the distance.



3 shots of NY 17 north of Thruway JN 15A.


And
just because, here are a couple of shots of NJ 17-southbound.
When
I was getting the SB diagram sign on IH 287,
I
got hung up in a mandatory exit lane, and so I rolled down 17 for a
mile or so.
This
is a fun road, since you have a closed reservation, but all sorts of
driveways and side roads
feeding
into 55 MPH traffic(actually 70....). Your classic Jersey freeway.
Here
are a couple of Jersey Box Gantries, and some NJ lighting weirdness.

The
diagram sign for the IH 287-NJ 17 junction from northbound NJ 17.
This
is the other end of JN 66 on IH 287.
The
odd thing here is the left hand IH 287 shield has the state name in it.
I
drove 30 miles on the mainline of IH 287, and didn't see one sign
with a state name;
a
gantry sign is an unusual place to find such a sign.