EB photo from the I-86/NY 17/NY 15 multiplex that will soon be just I-86 alone, courtesy Doug Kerr. NY 15 SB is about to turn into US 15 and exit here, and eventually that too will be a multiplex with I-99. The other options would be putting US 15 back on the surface road, or more likely would be truncating 15 back to Williamsport, PA where it will meet 99.


NY 15 shares I-390 for the first three exits and runs faithfully by its side to Rochester. The first photo is courtesy Doug Kerr, and may date to when US 15 was truncated to NY 17 in 1974, as may the milemarker. Now the trend is bubble shields like in the second photo. As I said in the I-86 caption, NY 15 is about to be truncated back to where it leaves I-390, meaning the first four photos on this page are no longer on NY 15.


SB at the Ford St. Bridge just south of central Rochester. It's rare to get three different sign problems together - peel, rot, and crack.


Looking north from there at the new I-490/Inner Loop Genesee River bridge.


Brand-new shields with out-of-place cutouts do not deserve to be anywhere near such great original button copy, but here they all are on the south side of Rochester. As you see on the overhead sign, the orange paint on Inner Loop shields tended to fade to white after many years, so in the last year or two Rochester decided that all of the shields would now be black on white. How dreadful.


I guess even blue can fade, though it's a much rarer occurrence. This is NB at Alexander St.


Woodbury Blvd. WB, leaving NY 31 at the northern end of NY 15 SB. Woodbury Blvd. EB is NY 31 here, but NY 31 WB left at Clinton Ave. (ending NY 15 NB). Although there's room for it, I don't think the BGS was meant for an Inner Loop shield.

NY 17/I-86 WB with (former) NY 15 NB

The original route, US 15
Exit 44 to NY 417
Onto I-390
To the Inner Loop
To I-490
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