Ontario Roads - Highway 16
Highway 16
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SB views of the Prescott-Ogdensburg International Bridge and the new Customs station being constructed on this approach. For whatever reason, Highway 16 ends at its historic Highway 2 terminus, despite this no longer being Highway 2, instead of turning onto the bridge to end at the border and become NY 812. Unlike most cases where a short rerouting would avoid a dangling end, there's no reason not to do it because the bridge is Federally maintained, so Ontario wouldn't have to take on any new stretch of road.
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Typical Emergency Detour Route signs at old Highway 2. (The continuity of 2 makes it an easy candidate for a detour route.) What's odd here is that the right turn is signed at the end of Highway 16, even though it already left via a channelized turn at the first sign.
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A NB view of Customs construction a year later in 2012, courtesy Carl Tessier.
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NB (first 2) and SB (last 2) at the entrance to the bridge. It's signed "NY 37 to U.S.A.," but more accurate would be "NY 812 to NY 37/U.S.A." Commendation for the correct NY shield, but demerit for the strange SB ramp speed signage.
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Cedar Grove Rd. EB at Highway 16, which also heads to the left but then merges into Highway 416 after a long ramp.
Onto former Highway 2
Onto the Prescott-Ogdensburg International Bridge (NY 812)
To NY 37
To Highway 401
Onto Highway 416
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