Interstate 86 (Ost)

Vorlage:About Vorlage:Infobox road Interstate 86 (I-86) is an Interstate Highway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. It is an upgrade of the existing New York State Route 17. Known as the Southern Tier Expressway and Quickway (split by Interstate 81 at Binghamton, New York), the route will connect Interstate 90 near Erie, Pennsylvania, with Interstate 87 (New York State Thruway) near Harriman, New York. As of August 2008, it runs east from I-90 to New York State Route 352 in Elmira, bringing the total length of highway designated as I-86 to 200 miles (and Vorlage:Convert remaining to be designated). Once completed, I-86 will stretch 388 miles (624 km) across the Southern Tier of New York from I-90 to I-87, shorter than the 460 miles (740 km) along the flatter New York State Thruway to the north.

Several sections of NY 17 are not up to freeway or Interstate standards, and need to be upgraded before I-86 can be designated along its full length. These substandard sections are located near Elmira, Binghamton, and the Catskill Mountains.

I-86 currently travels 6.99 miles (11.25 km) in Pennsylvania and 190 miles (305.8 km) in New York. Except for a section of about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) that dips into Pennsylvania near Waverly, New York but is maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation, the rest of I-86 will be in New York.

The Southern Tier Expressway section west of Binghamton is also Corridor T of the Appalachian Development Highway System. An extension of the U.S. 219 Southern Expressway will also join I-86.

Route description

Pennsylvania to Olean

I-86 begins at Interstate 90 in a relatively flat area of northwestern Pennsylvania, and crosses into New York, heading towards Chautauqua Lake. This piece was built along a new alignment in the 1980s as a two-lane freeway and widened to four lanes in 1996. The New York section of I-86, including the planned extensions, is defined as Interstate Route 507 in New York Highway Law § 340-a.

After crossing Chautauqua Lake, I-86 merges into an older section of freeway at exit 10 near Bemus Point; this freeway is now NY Route 954J northwest of the newer extension. NY 954J runs into NY Route 430, which (along with NY Route 394) carried NY 17 to Westfield before the 1980s extension. From Bemus Point to Jamestown (exit 12), I-86 parallels the old NY 17 - now NY Route 430 - along the northeast shore of Chautauqua Lake. The Erie Railroad extension to Chicago (built as the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad) comes into Jamestown from the southwest, and parallels I-86 to its junction with the Erie's original main line to Dunkirk at Salamanca.

From Jamestown to Salamanca, the old NY 17 (now mostly NY Route 394), the new I-86 and the railroad run generally parallel through river valleys. The transportation routes run along the Chadakoin River, Conewango Creek and Little Conewango Creek to Steamburg (exit 17), cutting east to the Allegheny River at Coldspring there. The valley of the Allegheny takes the routes to Salamanca (exit 20), where the railroads merged, and beyond to Olean (25). From Salamanca to Olean, the old NY 17 is now NY Route 417. At Olean, the Allegheny River and NY 417 (old NY 17) continue southeast, while I-86 and the Erie Railroad head northeast. NY 417 does not return to I-86 until exit 44 near Painted Post, and the Erie switches between the two alignments several times.

Olean to Elmira

I-86 and the old Erie line (now part of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad) run northeast along the valleys of the Olean Creek and Oil Creek to Cuba (exit 28). From Cuba to Friendship (exit 29), they run through a valley and over a summit, then following the Van Campen Creek northeast to Belvidere (exit 30). At Belvidere, the Erie turns southeast to meet NY 417 at Wellsville, but I-86 continues northeast through the valleys of the Genesee River and Angelica Creek to Angelica (exit 31), and then east along the Angelica Creek, over a summit which is the highest point on the Interstate, and along the Karr Valley Creek to Almond (exit 33). This summit, at 2,110 feet (634 m) above sea level, is the highest point along I-86, located between exits 32 (West Almond) and 33 and marked with a sign.

At Almond, I-86 rejoins the Erie Railroad, passing through the Canacadea Creek valley about halfway to Hornellsville. However, where the railroad turns southeast to Hornellsville, I-86 continues northeast across a summit and into the wide Canisteo River valley (exit 34). It leaves the valley along the Carrington Creek, but quickly turns east across a summit to follow the Big Creek and cross another summit to Howard (exit 35). I-86 runs alongside Goff Creek from Howard to the wide Cohocton River valley, where it meets the south end of Interstate 390 (exit 36) near Avoca and turns southeast through that valley, parallel to the Erie's Rochester-Painted Post line (Buffalo, New York and Erie Railroad).

I-86, NY Route 415 (old U.S. 15) and the Erie branch all run southeast along the Cohocton River past Bath (exit 38) to Painted Post (exit 44), now the north end of U.S. 15. NY 417 - old NY 17 - also ends at exit 44, while NY 415 continues east into Corning (exits 45–46). From Painted Post through Corning to Big Flats (exit 49), I-86, NY Route 352 (old NY 17) and the Erie Railroad run through the Chemung River valley. NY 352 begins at exit 45, west of downtown Corning, and is a recently-bypassed four-lane road through Corning. East of East Corning (exit 48), the freeway was built as an on-the-spot upgrade of the old NY 17.

At Big Flats, the Chemung River (and NY 352) turns southeast to downtown Elmira, while I-86 and the Erie continue east-northeast alongside Singsing Creek and across a low summit before turning south at Horseheads along Newtown Creek to Elmira.

The surface road in Horseheads crossed several major arterial roads in a fully developed area, which has made this one of the most expensive sections to upgrade. Construction, however, has now been completed to upgrade it to a freeway, by building a large arrangement of embankments and bridges. As of August 2008, the present end of I-86 is at NY Route 352 (exit 56) in Elmira, after official completion of the US-15/I-86 interchange in Painted Post, New York. Another non-freeway section is present just east of the Elmira area, in a less developed area.

I-86 signage along the 10 miles of interstate opened just east of the NY 17/I-81 interchange.

East of Binghamton

In September 2006, a Vorlage:Convert section of New York State Route 17 just east of Binghamton (between exits 75 and 79) was designated as I-86, bringing the total length of highway designated as I-86 to 195 miles (with only Vorlage:Convert remaining to be designated). The near Vorlage:Convert segment runs in Broome County from Kirkwood to Windsor ending just before NY 17 intersects and merges briefly with Interstate 81. To the east of this segment, NY 17 features several future I-86 signs along the highway. As of July 2009, a section of NY-17 undergoing reconstruction was signed as I-86 between I-84 and NY-302 near Middletown.

Future

• Elimination of at-grade intersections between exits 56 and 59 near Chemung.
• Improvements to the interchange with Interstate 81 in Binghamton near the stretch named "Kamikaze Curve" [1].
• Elimination of at-grade intersections between exits 84 and 87 and between exits 97 and 99 in the Catskills
• Other interchange improvements in the Catskills

Exit list

Exits are numbered from west to east, in accordance with MUTCD guidelines. Pennsylvania uses milepost exit numbers on its Interstates; other I-86 exits are numbered sequentially.

County	Location	Mile	Exit	Destinations	Opened	Notes
Erie	Greenfield Township		1	Vorlage:Jct – Erie, Buffalo		Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; signed as exits 1A (west) and 1B (east)
			3	Vorlage:Jct		Former exit 2
		6.99 0.00	Pennsylvania – New York state line
Chautauqua	Mina
		1.03	4	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1973
	Sherman	9.17	6	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1973
	North Harmony	15.34	7	Panama, Chautauqua Institution	ca. 1982
		18.86	8	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1982
	Ellery	20.22	9	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1982	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		20.29	10	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1982
	Ellicott	26.23	11	Strunk Road (NY 953B)	ca. 1973
		28.00	12	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1973
		30.69	13	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1971
	Poland	36.04	14	Vorlage:Jct, Warren	ca. 1968
Cattaraugus	Randolph	39.33	15	School House Road (NY 953A)	ca. 1968
	Randolph	41.38	16	West Main Street (NY 952M) - Randolph, Gowanda	ca. 1968
	Coldspring	47.88	17	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1967	opened ca. 1971 between exits 16 and 17
		50.61	18	Vorlage:Jct - Allegany State Park Quaker Run Area	ca. 1967
	Red House	54.43	19	Allegany State Park Red House Area	ca. 1970
	Salamanca	58.14	20	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1980
	Salamanca	60.45	21	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1980	West end of US 219 overlap
	Carrollton	67.52	23	Vorlage:Jct, Bradford	ca. 1987	East end of US 219 overlap
	Allegany	74.07	24	Vorlage:Jct, St. Bonaventure University	ca. 1973
	Olean	77.27	25	Buffalo Street (NY 954E) - Olean	ca. 1973
		78.77	26	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1972
	Hinsdale	84.69	27	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1972
Allegany	Cuba	91.35	28	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1972
	Friendship	98.72	29	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1973
	Amity	104.45	30	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1973
	Angelica	108.55	31	Angelica	ca. 1973
	West Almond	115.78	32	West Almond	ca. 1973
	Almond	123.61	33	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1973
Steuben	Hornellsville	128.30	34	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1970	Signed as exits 34S (south) and 34N (north)
	Howard	137.98	35	Howard (NY 962B)	ca. 1970
	Avoca	145.17	36	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1973
	Bath	146.30	37	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1973
	Bath	149.50	38	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1971
	Bath	152.61	39	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1969
		156.40	40	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1969
	Campbell	161.20	41	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1967
		165.24	42	Coopers Plains (NY 960M)	ca. 1967
	Erwin	167.51	43	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1959
	Painted Post	168.64	44A	Vorlage:Jct - Williamsport	ca. 1951 rebuilt ca. 1989
		168.64	44B	Vorlage:Jct
	Riverside	169.02	45	Vorlage:Jct - Riverside; Downtown Corning	ca. 1995	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			45	Vorlage:Jct - Riverside	ca. 1995	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Corning	171.49	46	Vorlage:Jct, Corning Museum of Glass	ca. 1985
		174.20	47	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1985
		176.57	48	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1985
Chemung	Big Flats	178.85	49	Big Flats	ca. 1985
			50	Vorlage:Jct – Elmira/Corning Regional Airport	ca. 2003
		182.30	51A	Chambers Road — Shopping Malls, Elmira/Corning Regional Airport	ca. 1969
			51B	Colonial Drive — Shopping Mall	1998	Westbound exit only
	Horseheads		52A	Commerce Center Road (NY 962E)	ca. 1970	No westbound exit
		184.35	52B	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1970	Signed as exits 52B (south) and 52N (north) westbound
			53	Horseheads	2007
		185.72	54	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 1996
	Elmira	189.90	56	Vorlage:Jct	ca. 2002 (rebuilt)
Temporary gap in I-86 designation; see NY 17 for exits 57 through 74
Broome	Kirkwood	249.62	75	Vorlage:Jct – Scranton, Pennsylvania, Industrial Park (NY 990G)	ca. 1963	I-81 joins westbound and leaves eastbound; exit number signed westbound only
		251.31	76	Haskins Road / Foley Road	ca. 2000
	Windsor town		77	West Windsor	ca. 2000
		256.25	78	Dunbar Road – Occanum	ca. 1961
	Windsor village	259.64	79	Vorlage:Jct – Windsor	ca. 1960
Temporary east end of I-86; highway continues east as NY 17

External links

Commons: Interstate 86 – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien

• Named for former New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan