US highway endpoints in Waverly, NY
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1927-present
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The north end of US 220 has always been in the Waverly area, but the exact location of its terminus has moved over the years. Originally there was no US 220 bypass around Athens and Sayre PA. Instead, US 220 essentially followed what is now PA 199 through those towns. And after 1930, the US 309 designation was twinned with US 220:
c. 1940, Rand McNally
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Near the state line, the route jogged around a bit before ending up on Pennsylvania Avenue in Waverly, ending at its junction with the original NY hwy. 17 (Chemung Street):
c. 1957, USGS
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However, despite what was shown on that map, as of 1961 US 220-309 was not signed anywhere in New York. The first southbound signs were posted right at the Pennsylvania line (click on the image to read more comments from the photographer):
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Lindsay, 1961 (linked to source)
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This photo was looking northeast on Pennsylvania, approaching Chemung:
Farr, Apr. 2002
Officially, US 220-309 originally ended at that intersection, although it is unclear whether it was ever signposted in New York.
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US 309 was truncated out of Waverly by 1963. Today's US 220 bypass around Athens and Sayre was built in 1973; at that time the location of its north terminus changed. Though the route continued to end at its junction with old NY hwy 17, its terminus was about a half-mile west of Pennsylvania Av (which is the road running through the letter "o" in "Forest"):
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NYSDoT
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The NY 17 freeway (which is now also I-86) wiped out a segment of old route 220-309 heading south from there. Red indicates NYSDOT maintenance; orange indicates PENNDOT maintenance; and brown indicates county maintenance. So by the time of that map, US 220 in New York was not state-maintained, which explains why it did not show up in state records. Nevertheless, an "End" sign was posted in New York:
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Nitzman, 2000
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That was just north of 220's interchange with I-86 / NY 17 / Southern Tier Expressway ("STE"); US 309 never ended there. These photos were taken from westbound Chemung; US 220 began to the left:
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Nitzman, 2000
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Kerr, Apr. 2002
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When the NY 17C designation was removed from Chemung, it made sense for the US 220 designation to be cut back to the STE. NYSDoT finally formalized this with AASHTO in 2017, so now US 220 ends in South Waverly, just shy of the New York line. But for years prior to that, the 500-foot segment of US 220 that continued north from the STE was (understandably) not acknowledged from the off-ramps; both of these images are from Google Street View, Sep. 2015:
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(westbound)
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(eastbound)
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Research and/or photo credits: Brian Farr; Doug Kerr; Jim Lindsay; Alex Nitzman; Nathan Perry; Dale Sanderson
Page originally created 1999;
last updated June 9, 2017.
last updated June 9, 2017.
