New York State Route360 (NY360) was an east–west state highway located in northwestern Monroe County, New York, in the United States. It extended for 4.87 miles (7.84km) through the town of Hamlin from an intersection with NY272 at the Monroe–Orleans county line to a junction with NY19 north of the hamlet of Hamlin. NY360 intersected the former southern terminus of NY2151.50 miles (2.41km) east of the county line at its northern junction with Redman Road. Most of NY360 passed through rural areas; however, the easternmost portion of the route was located in a residential neighborhood that comprises the northernmost portion of the hamlet of Hamlin.
Quick Facts Route information, Length ...
New York State Route 360
Map of Monroe and Orleans counties with NY360 highlighted in red
The highways that NY360 followed were originally improved to state highway standards in the 1900s and 1910s and first designated as part of NY18 as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York. By the following year, the NY360 designation was assigned to what is now NY18 between NY272 and NY19. The alignments of NY18 and NY360 between those two routes were flipped c.1933. Ownership and maintenance of NY360 was transferred from the state of New York to Monroe County on November26, 2007, as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government. NY360 overlapped with four different county routes at various points along its routing until the route was officially deleted as a touring route in February 2012.
Route description
NY360 began at an intersection with NY272 at the Monroe–Orleans county line in the town of Hamlin. The route proceeded east on Morton Road, passing through a lightly populated area and crossing a pair of tributaries that feed into Yanty Creek.[5] After 1.50 miles (2.41km),[1] Morton Road ended at an intersection with Redman Road.[5] This junction was once the southern terminus of NY215;[6] however, it is now merely a junction between two county-maintained routes.[7] NY360 turned south here to follow Redman Road for 0.5 miles (0.8km) before resuming its eastward progression on Church Road.[5]
Like on Morton Road before it, the portion of Church Road that is part of NY360 was sparsely populated, save for a portion of the road near its junction with Lake Road West Fork. Roughly halfway between Redman Road and Lake Road West Fork, NY360 passed over Sandy Creek. At Lake Road West Fork, NY360 veered southeast. As NY360 continued along the roadway, the amount of development increased as the route approached of the hamlet of Hamlin. North of the hamlet's center, NY360 met NY19 (Lake Road East Fork) at a Y-shaped intersection. NY360 ended here, and NY19 continued southward into Hamlin as Lake Road.[5]
History
Origins and designation
On September20, 1907, the state of New York let a contract for a project to improve Church Road, the section of Redman Road north of Church Road, and the portion of Lake Road West Fork between Church Road and Lake Road to state highway standards. The project was completed by mid-1909, and the highways, collectively inventoried as State Highway286 (SH286), were added to the state highway system on July20, 1909. On June8, 1915, the state awarded another contract to bring Morton Road up to state highway standards. Work on the road, internally designated as SH1282, was completed that year, allowing for the highway to be added to the state highway system on December8, 1915.[8][9] The first set of posted state routes in New York were assigned in 1924; however, no designations were assigned to either of the aforementioned highways at this time.[10]
In the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, several of the routes assigned during the 1920s were renumbered or modified. At the same time, hundreds of state-maintained highways that did not yet have a route number were assigned one. This included both SH1282 and the section of SH286 south of Morton Road as both became part of NY18, a highway that was extended eastward from Buffalo to Rochester as part of the renumbering. At the time, NY18 entered the hamlet of Morton on Kenmore Road and followed Morton, Redman, and Church Roads and Lake Road West Fork into Hamlin, where it overlapped with NY63 (modern NY19) south along Lake Road to rejoin its modern alignment at Hamlin Center Road.[11] By the following year, NY360 was assigned to what is now NY18 between NY272 and Lake Road (then-NY63) in Hamlin.[2][3] The alignments of NY18 and NY360 between Morton and Hamlin were flipped c.1933, placing both highways on their modern routings.[12][13]
Transfer of maintenance
In 2007, ownership and maintenance of NY360 was transferred from the state of New York to Monroe County as part of a highway maintenance swap between the two levels of government. A bill (S4856, 2007) to enact the swap was introduced in the New York State Senate on April23 and passed by both the Senate and the New York State Assembly on June20. The act was signed into law by Governor Eliot Spitzer on August28. Under the terms of the act, it took effect 90 days after it was signed into law; thus, the maintenance swap officially took place on November26, 2007.[14]
As a result of the change in maintenance, NY360 became part of four unsigned county routes. On Morton Road, NY360 was co-designated as County Route279 (CR279). The portion on Redman Road was part of CR236, which extends from NY31 west of Brockport to Cook Road near the Lake Ontario State Parkway. The section of NY360 on Church Road overlapped with CR277. Finally, the part of NY360 on Lake Road West Fork was concurrent with CR234, which extends north past NY360 to Moscow Road (CR211).[7] All four overlaps were eliminated when the NY360 designation was officially removed in February 2012,[4] and the NY 360 shields were removed by June of that year.
D. Woodin (February 9, 2012). "Memorandum: Elimination of Touring Route NY 360 – Town of Hamlin, Monroe County" (Document). Albany, NY: New York State Department of Transportation, Office of Traffic Safety and Mobility.