NEW YORK STATE ROUTE 324

'New York State Route 324' is a state highway located entirely within Erie County, New York, USA. NYS 324 serves as a major commercial strip for three of Buffalo's northern suburbs.
Its western terminus is at the north part of Grand Island, and it must join Interstate 190 to cross to the mainland, where it runs straight across three towns before reaching its eastern end at a junction with NYS 5.

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Route description

Communities along the route

Major intersections

References

External links

Route description

Route 324 begins at the north end of Grand Island, where it splits off from the interstate as Grand Island Boulevard. It runs in a more southeasterly direction here, serving as the main commercial strip on the island, before it overlaps I-190 in order to cross the Niagara River. It parts company with the interstate after less than two miles, assuming a more due easterly course across northern Erie County as 'Sheridan Drive' (the named street continues east of the interstate for a short distance as NY 325). Though amply signed as a state highway, most residents simply refer to this road by its local name.

Through much of this portion, the road is divided, with a tree-lined median strip. Businesses, both local and national, line both sides of the road and traffic is heavy. It crosses some other major strips such as Niagara Falls Boulevard (US 62), a major contributor to traffic on Sheridan due to the proximity of the Boulevard Mall, and Millersport Highway (NY 263), which feeds the northern SUNY Buffalo campus.
In Amherst it meets the Youngmann Expressway, I-290, right where NYS 240 (Harlem Road), reaches its northern end. Past the Youngmann development abates, green returns to the roadside and the median ends, although the road remains four-lane and high-volume. There is another pocket of development around the Wegmans supermarket north of Williamsville, which has seen some rapid growth in the last few years.
324 crosses its last major route, Transit Road (NY-78), on an overpass just north of the once-thriving Eastern Hills Mall, which used to be the premier mall in the Buffalo area until it began losing tenants and customers to the larger Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga.
Beyond Transit, the road is still four-lane but primarily residential as it enters the Town of Clarence. After Harris Hill Road, the highway bends to the southeast once again for a final mile into its eastern end at Main Street (NY-5). This last section was widened from two lanes to four in the mid-1990s, and has seen some development but still remains lightly trafficked most of the day.

Communities along the route

★ Grand Island

★ Tonawanda

★ Amherst

★ Clarence

Major intersections

References

1. New York Routes - New York State Route 324

External links

★ NY 324 at State-Ends.com