New York State Route 840 (NY 840) is an east–west
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
located entirely within
Oneida County, New York
Oneida County is a county in the state of New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 232,125. The county seat is Utica. The name is in honor of the Oneida, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois League or ''Haudenos ...
, in the United States. It is a superhighway extension of Judd Road (County Route 840 or CR 840), which ends at Halsey Road (County Route 52 or CR 52) in
Whitestown. The western terminus of NY 840 is at the junction of Judd and Halsey roads while its eastern terminus is at an interchange with the North–South Arterial (
NY 5
New York State Route 5 (NY 5) is a state highway that extends for across the state of New York in the United States. It begins at the Pennsylvania state line in the Chautauqua County town of Ripley and passes through Buffalo, Syrac ...
,
NY 8, and
NY 12
New York State Route 12 (NY 12) is a state highway extending for through central and northern New York (state), New York in the United States. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 11 in New York, U.S. Route 11 (US ...
) near the southern city line of
Utica. NY 840 opened to traffic in 2005, and the road was ceremoniously designated as the Officer Joseph D. Corr Memorial Highway in 2007. In 2008, part of Judd Road was redesignated as CR 840 to match the designation of its state highway continuation.
Route description
![NY840 West to West Thruway Signs (42088586244)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/NY840_West_to_West_Thruway_Signs_%2842088586244%29.jpg)
NY 840 begins at an intersection with Halsey Road (CR 52) and Judd Road in the town of
Whitestown. North of this junction, NY 840 continues as Judd Road, designated as CR 840. NY 840 initially heads south as a four-lane undivided highway through a rural portion of
Oneida County to a junction with Clark Mills Road (CR 19), where it turns southeast to parallel a set of high-voltage power lines through the town. Upon crossing into the
town of New Hartford, NY 840 becomes a
limited-access highway
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and turns again to follow a more easterly routing.
![NY 840](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/NY_840.jpg)
As NY 840 approaches the residential outskirts of
Utica, it connects to Middle Settlement Road (CR 30) by way of a
Partial cloverleaf interchange
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The design has been well received, and has since become one of the most popular freeway-to-arterial interchange designs in North America. It has also bee ...
. East of the junction, the route curves southeastward and enters a major commercial district, where it intersects
NY 5A by way of a
single-point urban interchange
A single-point urban interchange (SPUI, or ), also called a single-point interchange (SPI) or single-point diamond interchange (SPDI), is a type of highway interchange. The design was created in order to help move large volumes of traffic thro ...
. The district is confined mostly to the vicinity of NY 5A, however, and NY 840 proceeds southeast through residential neighborhoods and around pockets of commercial development to a
cloverleaf interchange
A cloverleaf interchange is a two-level interchange in which all turns are handled by slip roads. To go left (in right-hand traffic; reverse directions in left-driving regions), vehicles first continue as one road passes over or under the ...
with the North–South Arterial (
NY 5
New York State Route 5 (NY 5) is a state highway that extends for across the state of New York in the United States. It begins at the Pennsylvania state line in the Chautauqua County town of Ripley and passes through Buffalo, Syrac ...
,
NY 8, and
NY 12
New York State Route 12 (NY 12) is a state highway extending for through central and northern New York (state), New York in the United States. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 11 in New York, U.S. Route 11 (US ...
) near the southern city line of
Utica. NY 840 ends here; however, the highway continues southeast through the interchange as NY 8.
Although NY 840 is signed as an east–west route, the
reference marker
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s along NY 840 are sequenced from the arterial concurrency northward, ending at the Halsey Road intersection, in violation of standard
New York State Department of Transportation
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(NYSDOT) practice. NYSDOT also lists the mileposts along the route from east to west in its annual Traffic Volume Report, implying a north–south orientation;
however, NY 840 is listed as an east–west route in the NYSDOT route log, listing its beginning terminus at
CR 40 (Judd Road, now CR 840).
History
The first section of NY 840 opened to traffic on June 29, 2005, extending from the North–South Arterial to Middle Settlement Road.
The remainder of the highway opened on October 3, 2005. In all, the project cost $45 million, including $33 million for the road itself.
In April 2007, a bill was introduced in the
New York State Senate
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Partisan com ...
that would ceremoniously designate NY 840 as the "Officer Joseph D. Corr Memorial Highway". It was passed by both houses of the
New York State Legislature
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and signed into law by Governor
Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he was the 54th governor of New York from 2007 until his resignation in 2008.
Spitzer was b ...
on July 18, 2007.
![Oneida CR840 West Sign (42088586564)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Oneida_CR840_West_Sign_%2842088586564%29.jpg)
NY 840 is commonly known as Judd Road Extension in reference to Judd Road, the county-maintained road it connects to at its western end.
Judd Road and Coleman Mills Road, the continuation of Judd Road north of the former
Oneida County Airport
Oneida County Airport was a public airport in Whitestown in Oneida County, New York, northwest of downtown Utica. The airport covered and had two runways.
Oneida County closed the airport in January 2007 and transferred operations to Grif ...
, were initially designated as
CR 40. Meanwhile, Sutliff Road, a road branching off of Coleman Mills Road near the airport, was originally CR 90.
In September 2008, legislation was introduced in
Oneida County that would redesignate the portion of Judd and Coleman Mills roads from Halsey Road to Sutliff Road and all of Sutliff Road as CR 840. The changes were proposed in an effort to bring the highways, which connect NY 840 to
NY 233, under one designation that would serve as a clear continuation of NY 840 through northwest Whitestown. The redesignation was approved by the county legislature on September 24, 2008.
Future
According to the Herkimer-Oneida County Long Range Transportation Plan Update, NY 840 is slated to extend from its current terminus at Halsey Road in Whitestown to the interchanges of
New York State Route 49
New York State Route 49 (NY 49) is an east–west state highway in central New York in the United States. It runs for just over from an intersection with NY 3 in the town of Volney (east of Fulton) in Oswego County, New York to an ...
and
New York State Route 365
New York State Route 365 (NY 365) is an east–west state highway in the central portion of New York, United States. It extends for from an intersection with NY 5, east of the Madison County city of Oneida to a junction with NY ...
in Rome. Options presented in the study include realigning the highway on a new
right-of-way
Right of way is the legal right, established by grant from a landowner or long usage (i.e. by prescription), to pass along a specific route through property belonging to another.
A similar ''right of access'' also exists on land held by a gov ...
or constructing the highway in its existing alignment with new frontage roads. The project is estimated to cost $10 million.
Exit list
See also
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List of county routes in Oneida County, New York
References
External links
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Limited-access roads in New York (state)
Transportation in Oneida County, New York