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'Interstate 87' (abbreviated 'I-87') is a 333.49 mile (536.70 km) intrastate interstate highway located entirely within the state of New York. Its southern end is at the The Bronx approach to the Triboro Bridge in New York City; its northern end is in Champlain, New York, at the Canadian border, where it connects with Autoroute 15.
Main articles: Major Deegan Expressway
Interstate 87 is defined as part of Interstate Route Connector 512 and part of Interstate Route 502 in New York Highway Law § 340-a.[2]
The 8.4 mile section of I-87 in New York City is known as the Major Deegan Expressway. This highway was opened in 1956 before the Interstate highway system was created. The expressway was named for Major William Francis Deegan, of the US Army Corps of Engineers, who was responsible for the construction of many of the army bases in and around New York during World War I.
Main articles: New York State Thruway
The section of highway between the New York City line and the junction with Interstate 90 at Albany is part of the New York State Thruway, for which it was originally constructed in the middle 1950s. The section received its designation as Interstate 87 in 1958.
The Tappan Zee Bridge was created as an extension of the original Thruway route to Suffern, New York. It crosses the Hudson River enabling the route to New York City.
I-287 connects with its parent in a 19-mile (31 km) long concurrency near the southern end of the highway. It is a partial beltway around New York City. West of the concurrency, it loops around New York to meet the New Jersey Turnpike in Middlesex County, New Jersey. East of the concurrency, I-287 continues as the Cross Westchester Expressway to end at I-95 (the New England Thruway) in Rye, New York, near the Connecticut border. Note that I-287 leaves New York state, while its parent does not, making I-287 the only interstate that goes through more states than it's parent.
I-587 is less than 2 miles (3.2 km) long. It is unusual in that it has no interchanges along its length: its eastern terminus is at a signalized intersection, while its western terminus is at a roundabout (where it connects to Interstate 87).
North of Albany, Interstate 87 is known as the 'Adirondack Northway' (or simply the ''Northway'') and continues all the way to the Canada-US border. This controversial segment was built in 1967 to provide a direct route between New York City and Montreal for Expo 67. The same year, ''Parade Magazine'' designated the Northway as ''America's Most Scenic Highway''.
A long stretch of the Northway through the Adirondack Park is a "dark zone" for cell phone service. A number of recent tragedies have occurred when drivers crashed off the road and could not summon help, prompting calls from local officials to add new wireless towers to address the problem.[3]
The southern portion of the Northway through Colonie and Saratoga County is now a heavily travelled commuter route. Since the highway's construction, Saratoga County has become the fastest growing area of the Capital District, and indeed all of upstate New York.[4]
The Northway's southern terminus is at U.S. Route 20 in Guilderland, and the 0.9-mile section of the Northway that is not signed as Interstate 87 (but runs parallel to, and in proximity to, the Thruway/I-87) is maintained by NYSDOT as Reference Route 910F, also known as 'Fuller Road Alternate'. Plans by the Thruway Authority to construct EZPass Only lanes to connect directly to the Thruway, to ease congestion at Exit 24, have been talked about for years.
The Delaware and Hudson Railroad's Troy and Schenectady branch would have been bisected by the construction of I-87. Since they still had customers on that branch, the railroad crossed the Interstate at grade. This lasted four years, until 1963.[5]
I-487 (Hudson River Expressway) was planned to be the I-87 of the east-side of the Hudson. It was planned to run from where I-87 crosses the Hudson at the Tappan Zee Bridge to I-84 in the City of Beacon, NY. It was on the books as a project from the 1930s until the later 1970s. The Croton Expressway along US 9 between Croton-on-Hudson and Peekskill is the only section ever built.
I-687 was planned as a bypass around Albany, New York, but it was never built. The interchange that connects Corporate Woods Boulevard to I-90 was intended originally for I-687. Also, there is still no exit 3 on I-87. This was also intended for 687.
:See Major Deegan Expressway.
:See the Thruway exit list, for the first 148.15 miles of mainline (Exits 1-24).
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There is a very short section (0.54 miles long) overlapped with "Free" I-90, between the Thruway and the Northway. Mileposts refer to offramp locations.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!County
!Location
!Mile
!#
!Destinations
!Notes
|-
|rowspan=8|Albany
|rowspan=2|Albany
!colspan=4|Expressway continues to
US 20 as unsigned Reference Route 910F
|-
|0.00
|1
|
|To New York State Thruway.
Southbound I-87 follows eastbound I-90.
|-
|Village of Colonie
|1.39
|2
|
|
|-
|rowspan=5|Town of Colonie
|3.30
|4
|
|To
ALB Airport via NY 155.
|-
|4.27
|5
|
|
|-
|5.53
|6
|
|
|-
!colspan=4|
I-87/
NY 7 overlap for 0.6 miles.
|-
|6.12
|7
|
|
|-
|rowspan=11|Saratoga
|Halfmoon/Clifton Park
town line
|10.33
|8
|Crescent Road (CR 92)/Vischers Ferry Road (CR 90)
|CR 92 becomes CR 90 at junction
|-
|rowspan="3"|Clifton Park
|11.76
|8A
|Grooms Road (CR 91)
|
|-
|13.30
|9
|
|-
|16.22
|10
|Ushers Road — Jonesville, Ballston Lake
|
|-
|Malta/Round Lake
town line
|18.79
|11
|Curry Avenue/Round Lake Road (CR 80)
|CR 80 terminates here, only Round Lake is designated as such
|-
|rowspan=2|Malta
|21.05
|12
|
|-
|24.81
|13
|
|
|-
|Saratoga Springs
|28.86
|14
|
|Parclo hybrid
|-
|Saratoga Springs/Wilton
town line
|30.67
|15
|
|
|-
|Wilton
|36.15
|16
|Ballard Road (CR 33)
|
|-
|Moreau
|40.94
|17
|, Moreau Lake State Park
|
|-
|rowspan=10|Warren
|rowspan=3|Queensbury
|45.49
|18
|Corinth Road
|
|-
|47.83
|19
|
|-
|50.11
|20
|
|-
!colspan=5|Entering/Leaving Adirondack Park
|-
|rowspan=3|Town of Lake George
|53.31
|21
|
|
|-
|55.35
|22
|
|
|-
|59.79
|23
|Diamond Point Road
|
|-
|Town of Warrensburg
|68.21
|24
|Bolton Landing-Riverbank Road
|
|-
|rowspan=2|Chester
|73.58
|25
|
|
|-
|78.12
|26
|
|-
|rowspan=7|Essex
|rowspan=2|Schroon
|82.36
|27
|
|Schroon Road.
|-
|89.07
|28
|
|Ferry to Vermont.
|-
|rowspan=2|North Hudson
|95.01
|29
|Boreas Road/Blue Ridge Road
|
|-
|104.85
|30
|
|
|-
|Westport
|117.99
|31
|
|
|-
|Lewis
|123.75
|32
|Stowersville Road — Lewis, Willsboro}}
|
|-
|Chesterfield
|135.43
|33
|
|
|-
|rowspan=12|Clinton
|Au Sable
|139.22
|34
|
|
|-
!colspan=5|Entering/Leaving Adirondack Park
|-
|Peru
|144.97
|35
|
|
|-
|rowspan=4|Town of Plattsburgh
|150.58
|36
| International TradeParc
|
|-
|153.51
|37
|
|
|-
|155.31
|38
|
|
|-
|156.87
|39
|, Cumberland Head, Plattsburgh Bay
|-
|Beekmantown
|160.64
|40
|
|
|-
|Chazy
|168.26
|41
|
|
|-
|Town of Champlain
|174.75
|42
|
|
|-
|Champlain
village/town line
|176.02
|43
|
|Last U.S. exit.
|-
|Town of Champlain
!colspan=4|Canada-U.S.A. border (Milepost 176.70).
I-87 north continues as 
A-15.
|}
1. Route Log - Main Routes of the Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways - Table 1
2. Search of official New York State Legislature site
3. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/02/22/ap3454717.html
4. http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=291354
5. http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=385895#385895
★ Aerial photos of both ends of Interstate 87
'Interstate 87' (abbreviated 'I-87') is a 333.49 mile (536.70 km) intrastate interstate highway located entirely within the state of New York. Its southern end is at the The Bronx approach to the Triboro Bridge in New York City; its northern end is in Champlain, New York, at the Canadian border, where it connects with Autoroute 15.
| Contents |
| Route description |
| Major Deegan Expressway |
| New York State Thruway |
| Adirondack Northway |
| History |
| Exit list |
| Major Deegan |
| Thruway |
| I-90 concurrency |
| Northway |
| Auxiliary routes |
| References |
| External links |
Route description
| Major cities 'Bolded cities' are officially-designated control cities for signs |
|---|
★ 'New York City, New York' ★ Yonkers, New York ★ Newburgh, New York ★ Kingston, New York ★ 'Albany, New York' ★ Glens Falls, New York ★ Plattsburgh, New York ★ 'Montreal, Quebec' (via A-15) |
Major Deegan Expressway
Main articles: Major Deegan Expressway
Interstate 87 is defined as part of Interstate Route Connector 512 and part of Interstate Route 502 in New York Highway Law § 340-a.[2]
The 8.4 mile section of I-87 in New York City is known as the Major Deegan Expressway. This highway was opened in 1956 before the Interstate highway system was created. The expressway was named for Major William Francis Deegan, of the US Army Corps of Engineers, who was responsible for the construction of many of the army bases in and around New York during World War I.
New York State Thruway
Main articles: New York State Thruway
The section of highway between the New York City line and the junction with Interstate 90 at Albany is part of the New York State Thruway, for which it was originally constructed in the middle 1950s. The section received its designation as Interstate 87 in 1958.
The Tappan Zee Bridge was created as an extension of the original Thruway route to Suffern, New York. It crosses the Hudson River enabling the route to New York City.
I-287 connects with its parent in a 19-mile (31 km) long concurrency near the southern end of the highway. It is a partial beltway around New York City. West of the concurrency, it loops around New York to meet the New Jersey Turnpike in Middlesex County, New Jersey. East of the concurrency, I-287 continues as the Cross Westchester Expressway to end at I-95 (the New England Thruway) in Rye, New York, near the Connecticut border. Note that I-287 leaves New York state, while its parent does not, making I-287 the only interstate that goes through more states than it's parent.
I-587 is less than 2 miles (3.2 km) long. It is unusual in that it has no interchanges along its length: its eastern terminus is at a signalized intersection, while its western terminus is at a roundabout (where it connects to Interstate 87).
Adirondack Northway
North of Albany, Interstate 87 is known as the 'Adirondack Northway' (or simply the ''Northway'') and continues all the way to the Canada-US border. This controversial segment was built in 1967 to provide a direct route between New York City and Montreal for Expo 67. The same year, ''Parade Magazine'' designated the Northway as ''America's Most Scenic Highway''.
A long stretch of the Northway through the Adirondack Park is a "dark zone" for cell phone service. A number of recent tragedies have occurred when drivers crashed off the road and could not summon help, prompting calls from local officials to add new wireless towers to address the problem.[3]
The southern portion of the Northway through Colonie and Saratoga County is now a heavily travelled commuter route. Since the highway's construction, Saratoga County has become the fastest growing area of the Capital District, and indeed all of upstate New York.[4]
The Northway's southern terminus is at U.S. Route 20 in Guilderland, and the 0.9-mile section of the Northway that is not signed as Interstate 87 (but runs parallel to, and in proximity to, the Thruway/I-87) is maintained by NYSDOT as Reference Route 910F, also known as 'Fuller Road Alternate'. Plans by the Thruway Authority to construct EZPass Only lanes to connect directly to the Thruway, to ease congestion at Exit 24, have been talked about for years.
The Delaware and Hudson Railroad's Troy and Schenectady branch would have been bisected by the construction of I-87. Since they still had customers on that branch, the railroad crossed the Interstate at grade. This lasted four years, until 1963.[5]
History
I-487 (Hudson River Expressway) was planned to be the I-87 of the east-side of the Hudson. It was planned to run from where I-87 crosses the Hudson at the Tappan Zee Bridge to I-84 in the City of Beacon, NY. It was on the books as a project from the 1930s until the later 1970s. The Croton Expressway along US 9 between Croton-on-Hudson and Peekskill is the only section ever built.
I-687 was planned as a bypass around Albany, New York, but it was never built. The interchange that connects Corporate Woods Boulevard to I-90 was intended originally for I-687. Also, there is still no exit 3 on I-87. This was also intended for 687.
Exit list
Major Deegan
:See Major Deegan Expressway.
Thruway
:See the Thruway exit list, for the first 148.15 miles of mainline (Exits 1-24).
.jpg)
I-87 looking east from Nordkop Mtn, Suffern, NY, toward the Tappan Zee Bridge
I-90 concurrency
There is a very short section (0.54 miles long) overlapped with "Free" I-90, between the Thruway and the Northway. Mileposts refer to offramp locations.
| Mile | # | Destinations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 | |||
| 0.00 | Northbound I-87 joins I-90; Southbound I-87 leaves I-90 | ||
| 0.25 | 1S | Northbound: Southbound: I-87 joins I-90 | New York State Route 910F |
| 0.40 | (1N) | , Boston | Northbound I-87 leaves I-90 on Exit 1N |
| |||
Northway
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!County
!Location
!Mile
!#
!Destinations
!Notes
|-
|rowspan=8|Albany
|rowspan=2|Albany
!colspan=4|Expressway continues to
|-
|0.00
|1
|
|To New York State Thruway.
Southbound I-87 follows eastbound I-90.
|-
|Village of Colonie
|1.39
|2
|
|
|-
|rowspan=5|Town of Colonie
|3.30
|4
|
|To
|-
|4.27
|5
|
|
|-
|5.53
|6
|
|
|-
!colspan=4|
|-
|6.12
|7
|
|
|-
|rowspan=11|Saratoga
|Halfmoon/Clifton Park
town line
|10.33
|8
|Crescent Road (CR 92)/Vischers Ferry Road (CR 90)
|CR 92 becomes CR 90 at junction
|-
|rowspan="3"|Clifton Park
|11.76
|8A
|Grooms Road (CR 91)
|
|-
|13.30
|9
|
|-
|16.22
|10
|Ushers Road — Jonesville, Ballston Lake
|
|-
|Malta/Round Lake
town line
|18.79
|11
|Curry Avenue/Round Lake Road (CR 80)
|CR 80 terminates here, only Round Lake is designated as such
|-
|rowspan=2|Malta
|21.05
|12
|
|-
|24.81
|13
|
|
|-
|Saratoga Springs
|28.86
|14
|
|Parclo hybrid
|-
|Saratoga Springs/Wilton
town line
|30.67
|15
|
|
|-
|Wilton
|36.15
|16
|Ballard Road (CR 33)
|
|-
|Moreau
|40.94
|17
|, Moreau Lake State Park
|
|-
|rowspan=10|Warren
|rowspan=3|Queensbury
|45.49
|18
|Corinth Road
|
|-
|47.83
|19
|
|-
|50.11
|20
|
|-
!colspan=5|Entering/Leaving Adirondack Park
|-
|rowspan=3|Town of Lake George
|53.31
|21
|
|
|-
|55.35
|22
|
|
|-
|59.79
|23
|Diamond Point Road
|
|-
|Town of Warrensburg
|68.21
|24
|Bolton Landing-Riverbank Road
|
|-
|rowspan=2|Chester
|73.58
|25
|
|
|-
|78.12
|26
|
|-
|rowspan=7|Essex
|rowspan=2|Schroon
|82.36
|27
|
|Schroon Road.
|-
|89.07
|28
|
|Ferry to Vermont.
|-
|rowspan=2|North Hudson
|95.01
|29
|Boreas Road/Blue Ridge Road
|
|-
|104.85
|30
|
|
|-
|Westport
|117.99
|31
|
|
|-
|Lewis
|123.75
|32
|Stowersville Road — Lewis, Willsboro}}
|
|-
|Chesterfield
|135.43
|33
|
|
|-
|rowspan=12|Clinton
|Au Sable
|139.22
|34
|
|
|-
!colspan=5|Entering/Leaving Adirondack Park
|-
|Peru
|144.97
|35
|
|
|-
|rowspan=4|Town of Plattsburgh
|150.58
|36
| International TradeParc
|
|-
|153.51
|37
|
|
|-
|155.31
|38
|
|
|-
|156.87
|39
|, Cumberland Head, Plattsburgh Bay
|-
|Beekmantown
|160.64
|40
|
|
|-
|Chazy
|168.26
|41
|
|
|-
|Town of Champlain
|174.75
|42
|
|
|-
|Champlain
village/town line
|176.02
|43
|
|Last U.S. exit.
|-
|Town of Champlain
!colspan=4|Canada-U.S.A. border (Milepost 176.70).
|}
Auxiliary routes
References
1. Route Log - Main Routes of the Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways - Table 1
2. Search of official New York State Legislature site
3. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/02/22/ap3454717.html
4. http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=291354
5. http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=385895#385895
External links
★ Aerial photos of both ends of Interstate 87
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