Нью-Йорк штатының 208 тас жолының тарихы мен өзгерістері

Highway in southern New York state, U. S.

NY 208 was assigned to its current routing between Monroe and Gardiner in the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York. The route was extended north to its current terminus in New Paltz c. 1934. Prior to 1930, the entirety of NY 208 was unnumbered. This extension of NY 208 remained in place until April 1, 1980, when ownership and maintenance of NY 208 from Schunnemunk Street in Monroe to Highland Mills was transferred to Orange County as part of a large highway maintenance swap between the county and the state of New York. Following the swap, NY 208 was rerouted within Monroe to follow its current alignment between NY 17M and Schunnemunk Street while the former routing of NY 208 between Monroe and Highland Mills was redesignated as County Route 105. In 2006, the portion of the route between Washingtonville and New Paltz was also designated as State Bicycle Route 208.

In the 1940s, the New Jersey Department of Transportation planned to link a spur route then called Route S4B from Paramus up though Bergen County to connect with NY 208 at Monroe. The road never got any further than Oakland, but it was renumbered to Route 208 in 1953.

The village of Walden noted in its 2005 Comprehensive Plan the difficulties created by the oblique intersection at the southern end of the NY 52 concurrency. Traffic on northbound NY 208 comes to a stop sign at the intersection, where NY 52 comes in from the right at a slightly lower grade and a sharp angle, with the view mostly blocked by a building. The layout of the intersection is very poor for trucks making this turn, and the congestion all these factors create has been forcing more drivers to resort to side streets, the village believed, since traffic counts have been going up on NY 52 and NY 208 but down on the concurrency. The village hoped to work with the state DOT on marking an alternate route for trucks, but as of now, no official solution has been reached.