How cute, the milepost looks like its daddy shield!

Northbound


The shield is extra-wide for probably no good reason.


I wonder what was there before Wolfs Lane? (Should be Wolf's Lane, anyway.) Could have been 5th Ave., or either half of the cross street - Colonial Ave. or Sandford Blvd. Or - see Exit 8 on the SB side below - it could have still said Wolfs or Wolf's Lane and just been patched anyway.


I-684 begins here and again at I-287 (though this is really the beginning of the freeway mainline), but there's no exit number. Exit 26A may I suggest?


The last exit in NY. Note the four-digit SR shield. Also worth pointing out is that the CT side, the Merritt Pkwy., immediately drops to Exit 27, which may be a continuation of NY's mileage as opposed to exit numbering; either that, or the NY side has added a few exits since the initial numbering of the highway and CT has not kept up with them.

The last sign in NY. Or, the first sign in CT?

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Southbound

Actually in CT (the bridge is the border). O horror!


Apologies for the poor image quality, but I have to keep a photo of a button-copy yellow sign with a SPEED LIMIT 30 and sharp jog-left arrow on a fairly important freeway.


These are on the ramp to I-287, the Cross Westchester Expressway. It parallels Westchester Avenue for a significant distance, hence the ramp split.


Yep, Mamaroneck is important enough to have consecutive exits devoted to roads named after it.


A view at the older (first Exit 12 picture) and newer (second one) ways that NYSDOT signs street names in signs. The newest fashion, not shown here because it's not button copy (try I-684, link below, for a shot of one), has the street name in all caps in a darker green box. But that seems to vary by region (NYSDOT is broken into regions because it's a big state... well, compared to the ones around it).


The arch is for an old railroad, and pretty much defines the width of the Hutch. Not that traffic is that bad; a large part of traffic problems on the parallel I-95 New England Thruway has to do with trucks, which aren't allowed on a parkway.


NYC, as a city over 1 million population, is exempt from NTOR based on NYS law enacted about the same time as national NTOR law (mid-'70's gas crisis). Coincidence? Well, given NYC traffic (taxis, pedestrians, limos, and the few people foolish enough to drive), there's probably not much use to being able to turn on red anyway. These signs are supposed to appear on all freeway/tunnel/bridge NYC approaches/entrances, but that would be obscenely difficult to check (and a bunch of bridges have tolls).


Ohhhhhh, yeah. What were we talking about? Exit 2?


Courtesy Doug Kerr, this is at the Bruckner Interchange, where the Hutch becomes I-678. Well actually, the Hutch technically continues to the Whitestone Bridge, but trucks are permitted on I-678.

Into CT on the Merritt Pkwy. (CT 15)
Straight onto I-678 toward the Whitestone Bridge
Into the Bronx (such as at Exit 1)
Exit 7 to US 1
Exit 13, the Cross County Parkway
At the Bruckner Interchange, pick up I-95, I-295, or I-278
Onto I-287, the Cross Westchester Expressway
Into Westchester County
The Hutch on Steve Anderson's nycroads.com
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