Talk:New York State Route 26

History notes

NY 26 designated along most of its modern alignment in the 1930 renumbering. An exception is the section between West Carthage and Theresa. The 1930 route was Carthage-Fargo-Antwerp-Theresa, along modern NY 3, US Military Highway (within Fort Drum), and Jefferson CR 194. CR 193 is also an old alignment.

Route numbers prior to 1930

• PA-Bouckville (US 20): unnumbered
• Bouckville-Oriskany Falls (46): 12A
• Oriskany Falls-Rome (76): 46
• Rome-Turin (12): unnumbered
• Turin-Lowville: 12
• Lowville-West Carthage: 48
• West Carthage-Great Bend: not shown
• Great Bend-Evans Mills: not shown
• Evans Mills-Philadelphia: US 11
• Philadelphia-Theresa: unnumbered
• Theresa-Alexandria Bay (3): 48

Suffixed routes

• 26A: most of it is now 126, except for the Croghan-Lowville piece (812) - can probably be redirected to 126 once the history is written for that article
• 26B: short spur near Redwood - best bet is to keep it contained in this article's suffixed route section

I'll do some work on this (both the section here and the history in 126) tomorrow in an attempt to get this AID wrapped up and to keep the line moving. --TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 08:43, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:New York State Route 26/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) 16:21, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Let's do another road article!

• "NY 26 also intersects several other primary routes including I-81 in Barker, an overlap with U.S. Route 20 (US 20) in Madison, NY 12 in Lowville, and an overlap with US 11 in Philadelphia. " - given how notable the PA Philly is, I suggest you change it to something like "overlap with US 11 in Jefferson County", or "overlap with US 11 in Philadelphia in Jefferson County". IDK the exact wording, but you don't want the readers thinking they've changed states
• "NY 26 continues northward, meeting NY 17 (Future Interstate 86 {I-86}) at a nearby full cloverleaf on its way to a bridge over the Susquehanna River and the village of Endicott on the north bank." - I get why you did the {I-86} (because it's already in parenthesis), but it still looks weird (and not sure if it's proper formatting). You made a big deal in the lead that the route connects to Binghamton via 86, so perhaps go into a bit more detail, and split up the sentence a bit.
• "The highway continues into the community, becoming concurrent with US 11 for a single block to reach Whitney Point's main intersection." - I'm not sure if you mean NY 26 or I-81 here
• "and NY 206 begins straight ahead to the east" - wording could be stronger
• "A rural 10-mile (16 km) stretch brings NY 26 to the riverside hamlet of Willet, based around the route's intersection with NY 41" - I don't get the "based around" part
• "the route reaches the hamlet of South Otselic, home to the National Register of Historic Places-listed South Otselic Historic District and the Holden B. Mathewson House." - ref for those historic places? The Google Map ref seems to only cover the routing
• "Another 7 miles" - make sure you add km here
• "NY 80 turns northward at this point, following NY 26 as the road bends northwestward along the riverbank into Madison County" - is "joining" better than "following"?
• "NY 26 passes through several hamlets and the village of Turin in the towns of Turin and Martinsburg before entering the town of Lowville, where the route connects to NY 12 in the southernmost part of the village of Lowville." - ack, so I think I get it. Both Turin and Lowville are a hamlet and a village? Is there any way of simplifying this?
• "Another 6-mile (9.7 km) stretch of mostly undeveloped fields brings the route across the Deer River and into Jefferson County, the last on NY 26's 200-mile (320 km) route." - I suggest adding "county" here
• No more history since the 1970s?

That's it. A good little read. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:21, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Comments

@Hurricanehink: I think I have fixed everything, if I missed something let me know. I think the future section I added fixed the history since 1970. Thanks, 420Traveler (talk) 00:00, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, what does any of that future section have to do with this route? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:42, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

A section of NY 26 overlaps this proposed interstate. 420Traveler (talk) 03:11, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

@Hurricanehink: Hi, I see it passed, I also added some recent info from a few months ago about reconstruction in the area. by the way, happy 4/20!. 420Traveler (talk) 18:37, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! I noticed, good work on the article, and elsewhere on Wikipedia. This is often a thankless task, writing about the world around us. Light up, my friend! ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:24, 20 April 2020 (UTC)