Home from NORTHEAST!
May 17-19 2023
PART 4
The skyline of Binghamton, N.Y., from I-81. There's no ramp from I-81 south to I-88, so travelers must exit here and go back north to reach I-88.
I-81 nears I-86 in Binghamton. This was the same evening I stayed at a motel that advertised a pool that did not exist and I cut my toe on metal that poked out from under the bed. Note that some speed limit signs in New York state say STATE SPEED LIMIT.
I guess it's a brand new day after all, and this is NY 17 near Endwell. This is not officially I-86, as this stretch of freeway is not yet up to Interstate standards, forming a gap in I-86.
NY 17 goes under NY 96 in Owego. NY 96 also goes over the Susquehanna River here.
Now we've picked up I-86. Right about here, something funny happens. Not tee-hee funny but weird funny. For about a mile, I-86 dips into Pennsylvania. Best all, it's also NY 17 there, so a New York state route exists in Pennsylvania. We may be right on the state line here. The I-86 designation was issued in 1999.
According to Google Maps, the road ahead is on the state line.
Edging just a tiny bit into Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania welcome sign doesn't appear until here.
Elmira Street near South Waverly.
Heading back to I-86 on US 220.
US 220 enters New York about where the village line sign is.
Entering New York on I-86.
From I-86, this is the Chemung River and a rail bridge.
I-86 in Elmira. Does anyone else burst into singing an Oak Ridge Boys song every time Elmira is mentioned? To the left of I-86 is the framework of what appears to be a bridge on an old rail line that was converted to a trail.
I-86 meets the dreaded I-99, that bane of Roads Scholars far and wide. I-99 is still incomplete through Pennsylvania.
This New York state route sign has deterioriated so much it now looks like an Ohio state route sign!
I-390 is a 76-mile link to Rochester. I-390 was designated circa 1973, but the part near here opened around 1976.
NY 417 in Allegany. I think we lunched in Olean, and that was where I overheard a woman talking about a little kid being kicked out of a party for throwing a humongous tantrum.
I-86 crosses the Allegheny River, which flows into the Ohio River. Indeed, this sign includes the Seneca name for the Ohio, as native people in the area considered the Allegheny a part of the Ohio.
I-86 near Salamanca, birthplace of Ira Joe Fisher.
I-86 parallels the Allegheny River here.
The town is actually written as Coldspring. It is not to be confused with the village of Cold Spring, N.Y., or Cold Spring, Ky. - home of 2 of the 4 schools I was expelled from. It also has nothing to do with Cold Spring Harbor, a Billy Joel album that was mastered with his voice too high.
I-86 under NY 280.
NY 60 in Jamestown - hometown of Lucille Ball and Natalie Merchant.