About Me
105.3 miles in length, I'm curvacious and playful, though sometimes dark and dangerous. Either way, I'm your favorite joyride. Pay no attention to the animals who risked their lives crossing my lanes...they are with god now. I was born in 1927 and can provide you a scenic, rapid route from New York City to the Bear Mountain Bridge and points north.Long, strong -- I'm bound to get the friction on.---------------------------------------------------------
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-----History:The Taconic State Parkway is a part of the New York State highway system. The four-lane freeway was begun as an extension of the Bronx River Parkway, well before a similar project design in California, the Arroyo Seco Parkway. For most of its route, the "Teaspoon" (TSP) as it's sometimes humorusly referred to by "Road geeks", is four lanes for most of it's route. All of the parkway in Westchester north of the Sprain Brook Parkway is now a freeway, soon to all be six lanes. The expressway-only Taconic reaches a traffic circle with the expressway section of the Bronx River Parkway and NY-22. The character of this highway is largely scenic and quite windy, as it as intended for Sunday drivers headed from New York City to Bear Mountain for a picnic. The character was influenced through Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Parkway stretches from the Bronx River Parkway northwards to Chatham, New York in Columbia County. It ends at a Thruway toll plaza and an interchange (exit B2 off the Thruway) with I-90. The road is unsigned New York State Reference Route 987G. Most exit numbers are no longer signed.In 1980, the Sprain Brook Parkway was connected to the Taconic south of the Saw Mill River Parkway, providing a higher-speed, signal-free means of reaching the state-maintained freeway portion of the Bronx River Parkway. Because of the nature of the interchange, (parkway traffic defaults onto the Sprain--one must use the exit to continue on the Taconic. This exit is not labeled as "Taconic State Parkway", but rather "Bronx [River] Pkwy".) Drivers going south sometimes do not realize where the Taconic leaves and the Sprain begins, as it is not clear that the Taconic is leaving the freeway.body, div, p, strong, td, .text, .blacktext10, .blacktext12, a.searchlinkSmall, a.searchlinkSmall:link, a.searchlinkSmall:visited{
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