Well
here we go again with the Palisades Interstate Parkway.
I actually had A LOT MORE snaps of this,
but lost the lot when a hard drive bit the big one.
Cést la vie(that's Canadian for “It's a Hard Life”).
This Photo Essay covers the road from JN 10 to the roundabout at the north end
of the Parkway.
Most snaps are northbound. As usual of late, I'm on the poop-up kick.
Click the tiny snap for a spiffy full-size snap. It's like a prize every time!
An Xtra Bonus this time is that RED words indicate
links to poop-ups too! What a deal.
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JN
18 Southbound. The PIP bears left. US 6 bears right. This is a "T" junction that leads right into a small roundabout for Seven Lakes Drive. |
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Same
junction northbound. Note the chEEp divergence sine assembly at the left. |
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Now
you're on US 6 West(actually bearing NW). The southbound PIP is the overpass. Just past that is the Seven Lakes roundabout. |
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Back
on the PIP southbound at the Anthony Wayne Recreation Area Junction, This only connects back to the PIP. There's a lake for swimming and stuff. |
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JN 16 Southbound.
The last time I was thru here, the sign was upside-down and backward, |
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JN
16 northbound-leaving to the the left. You can't link back to the PIP northbound from here. |
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Approaching
JN 15 Northbound. This is for Rockland County Highway 106- (not noted on the sine, natch) aka “Route 210” as it used to be NY 210; and locals have never gotten over the decommissioning. The Town of Stony Point has a few “Route 210” blade signs posted. |
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A
Variable Message Sign doing guide sign duty at JN 15, Northbound. NYSDOT does this if a sign gets knocked down. Sometimes for months, sometimes for years... |
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JN
13 Northbound. This is one of those fun reverse junctions where the join comes before the off-slip. Once you get done having fun weaving, you get to endure a lengthy wait for a left turn at a signal. |
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The
merge in from NY 45-NB. |
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And
here's a little atrocity. The SB sign has destinations; where this is
what you get NB. This road DOES go somewhere, and would make a spiffy alternate exit for eastbound US 202 traffic. If I had anything to do w/it the sine would look like THIS. |
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Nice
OG concrete here-North of JN 11, it's pretty much original 1958 concrete. Complete with huge cracks and the like that make grown men tremble, and scare the daylights out of women, children and small animals. |
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Single
barrel underpass. north of JN 11. |
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The
Middletown Road(Rockland County 33) overpass. Note pavement conditions here. It's this way south to the State line. |
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Middletown
Road junction sign. No county route shield, and the name of the road is unboxed and in mixed case FWHA Series “E” modified font. NYSDOT Region 8 sometimes likes to box road names and put them in Series “D”. |
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The
NY 304 overpass just north of JN 9. |
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Approaching
JN 9 from the south. This is the secondary destination sign. Primary destinations are White Plains and Albany. note the(correct) “E-W” designators-rather than “N-S” |
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Way
north here, between JNs 16 and 17, approaching the visitor info center. The little blob in the middle right is a tenth-mile marker. These are the same stylee as the Taconic, except that they're brown rather than green. Also of note is that they reflect the sum of mileage in NJ AND NY. NJ's few tatty little mile markers are not as spiffy. |
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The
visitor information center and book store. An old service area, of course, now relegated to touriste trapisim. Natch, in true Parkway stylee, it's in the central reservation, tho the exit/merge situation is a *bit* better then on the Taconic. Not to worry, just past the exit/merges are two suicide u-turns, should you tire of living. |
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Northeast
of JN 19 on a patchy bit of asphalt. |
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An
advance warning that the Parkway is gonna peter out. |
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A
rarity-maybe the only advance “JUNCTION” sign of this type
in the area. |
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And
now, the end. rolling up on the oft-ignored “YEILD” sine at the PIP/US 6-US 9W-US 202 roundabout. PPL love to shoot out of this at speed, even if there is traffic in the roundabout, and it's not like there isn't any warning that MAYBE you should slow down. I mind the situation when travelling thru here. |
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