New York State Route 5S
The New York State Route 5S (NY 5S ) is a running east -west state highway in the Mohawk Valley of New York in the United States. It has a length of 73.03 miles ( 117.536 km ) and extends from a junction with Interstate 790 ( here overlapping with NY 5, NY 5A, NY 8 and NY 12) in Utica to the intersection with NY 890 in Rotterdam. The route runs along its entire length on the south side of the Mohawk River and parallel to the NY 5 north of the river (hence the letter " S" in the route number). In some places the NY 5S was expanded into a two-lane highway or a highway, mostly in Utica and the western part of Herkimer County. The route is west of its junction with NY 103 in Schenectady County concurrently with the New York State Bicycle Route 5
As NY 5S was set in 1930, it stretched from Oneida in the west to Schenectady in the east. She was later capped at both ends to pick up overlapping with other State Routes and to other road-building to integrate into the road network, such as the Interstate 890 (I -890 ) in the west of Schenectady counties.
Route description
NY 5S begins at the intersection of I -790 in the center of Utica, where the Oriskany Street changes its marking of NY 5A on NY 5S. At this junction to I- 790 overlaps with NY 5, NY 8 and NY 12 and forms Utica north-south artery. The Freeway connects NY 5S with the New York State Thruway. From this intersection, NY 5S runs as urban main road first with same-level crossings across Utica eastward. After the junction with Broad Street as it leads motorway-like road to the boundary of the City of Utica and the Herkimer County.
The highway meets in Herkimer County on Culver Avenue. Not far east of it branches off to the Turner Street from a small connecting road before Route 5S arrived in West Frankfort and an exit to the Dyke Road has, which in turn leads to the Thruway and NY 5. In West Frankfort, the route runs parallel to their old track sections. Route 5S leads south to Higby Road and Cemetery Street in Frankfort. Directly after passing through the County Fair Grounds, crosses under Route 5S in the NY 171 East Frankfort crosses their old road and turns east. You reached Ilion, where it meets NY 51. NY 5S leads south past Herkimer, crossing several local roads before they crossed into the Mohawk NY 28. In Mohawk Route 5S crosses the non -marked route Reference NY 922B.
At Mohawk past the Route 5S starts parallel to the Mohawk River and to extend the Thruway, while eastward aimed in the direction of Rotterdam. In Little Falls it intersects with NY 167 It runs through farmland and follows the course of the Thruway even closer. Will guide you through Fort Plain and Canajoharie. In the second of the two Villages the road is maintained in the immediate vicinity of the junction with NY 10 from the Village. This approximately 310 m long road section is the only part of the route, which is not maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation ( NYSDOT ).
Route 5S reached Fultonville and crosses there the NY 30A, but further extends parallel to the Thruway. In the City of Amsterdam crosses Route 55, NY 30 In the ensuing Town of Rotterdam, the route begins to run parallel to Route 5 and the river and turns southward. She eventually ends at the intersection with NY 890
History
In 1908, the New York State Legislature to create the non -marked Route 6 with initial point in Buffalo that led eastward through the state decided to Albany. From Utica to Schenectady followed Route 6 to the banks of the Mohawk River through its valley. Initially took Route 6 between Utica and Mohawk and between Fultonville and Amsterdam, the corridor of modern NY 5S. By 1920, the portion of today's NY 5S Mohawk to Little Falls portion of the route was 26 on March 1, 1921 route 26 was cut and started from there on in Little Falls, while Route 6 was neutral Siert between Fultonville and Amsterdam, and instead the course of today's NY 5 followed. When in 1924 the first signposted road routes in New York were reported, was the part of the former Route 6 between Utica and Mohawk to the northernmost section of NY 28, a north- south route that connected Oneonta about Springfield and Richfield Springs Utica.
In the renumbering of state highways in New York 1930 NY 28 north of Mohawk received a new course towards Poland. The former route between Utica and Mohawk became part of NY 5S and thus an alternative route of NY 5 between Oneida and Schenectady. As the code letter suggests, NY 5S was largely a more southerly route than the NY 5, even if it was west of Utica north of NY 5. The section in the direction of Oneida is now formed by 5A NY, NY 69, NY 365 and NY 365A. NY 5S west was cut off at the beginning of the 1940s, of Utica, so now her full route for the first time lay to the south of the NY 5.
Even at its eastern end, NY 5S was shortened and indeed to its current endpoint in Rotterdam, because between Rotterdam and Schenectady parts of were built across I- 890 over the previous route of Route 5S. This reduction took place in several phases. The first abandoned section concerned the completion of I- 890 between Downtown Schenectady and the Exit 4 Completed was the Freeway between the New York State Thruway (I- 90) and Schenectady mid-1970s, so the NY 5S abandoned to Exit 2 been. The reduction to its current eastern terminus at the former I- 890 (now NY 890 ) was the end of the 19801er years after a reconstruction of the intersection between the Thruway and the former I- 890 uckbau for R § the River Road between I -890 and the current stub at Rice Road led.
Between Utica and Mohawk NY 5S was originally called today's " Old Route 5S " or " Main Street " and was moved in the early 1970s to follow between Utica and Ilion the newly built route of the freeway, is bypassed to the west with the Frankfort. Sometime after 1982, a two lane section after motorway standards was passed eastward as far as the Mohawk traffic. The bridge, which led the New York State Thruway over the Schoharie Creek, collapsed on 5 April 1987, when the creek due to excessive rainfall led and fast than usual flowing flood. The section of NY 5S in Fort Hunter has been reconfigured to accommodate the westward transport of thruways, while the bridge was rebuilt.