New York State Route 332

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NY Route 332

Length:

9.05 mi^[1] (14.56 km)

South end:

NY 5/US 20/NY 21 in Canandaigua

North end:

I-90/Thruway in Farmington

Counties:

Ontario

Numbered highways in New York
< NY 331		NY 333 >
Interstates - U.S. Routes - State Routes

New York State Route 332 (abbreviated NY 332) is a 9.05 mile (14.56 km) long north-south state highway located entirely within Ontario County in the Finger Lakes region of New York. The southern terminus of the route is currently located at an intersection with the New York State Route 5/U.S. Route 20 concurrency just south of downtown Canandaigua. The northern terminus is located at the toll barrier preceding New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) exit 44 in Farmington.

Within the Canandaigua city limits, NY 332 is Main Street, a major arterial through downtown lined with numerous shops, stores and points of interest. At the city line, the route becomes Rochester Road and the surroundings become more rural, with the number of businesses continually decreasing to where no structures are present on the road. Farther north in Farmington, a small cluster of establishments centered around the intersection with New York State Route 96 represents the last major commercial location on NY 332 before ending at the Thruway. The route is four lanes wide along its entire length.

NY 332 is the primary route for travelers destined for Canandaigua from locales such as Rochester and Victor to the northwest of the city.

1 Route description
- 1.1 Canandaigua
- 1.2 Canandaigua to Farmington
2 History
3 Major intersections
4 References

[edit] Route description

Communities
Canandaigua (city) Canandaigua (town) Farmington

[edit] Canandaigua

Although NY 332 begins at the intersection of South Main Street and Routes 5 and 20, state maintenance of Main begins 0.17 miles south of Routes 5 and 20 at Lakeshore Drive, where Main becomes Reference Route 942T.^[2] Main Street, a two-lane road providing access to the Canandaigua Lake boat launch south of this point, widens to four lanes in preparation for the junction with NY 5, US 20 and New York State Route 21 immediately south of downtown. At the intersection, South Main Street loses the 942T designation and becomes NY 332. NY 21, concurrent with Routes 5 and 20 west of Main, separates from NY 5 and US 20 and turns north onto Main Street, joining NY 332 to form an overlap northward through downtown Canandaigua.

Near the city center, NY 21 and NY 332 intersect Bristol Street, the former path of NY 21 out of the city. Four blocks north, the overlap passes West Avenue, the former routing of NY 5 and US 20 into Canandaigua. After traversing another three blocks, the concurrency splits at Gibson Street as NY 21 follows Gibson out of Canandaigua towards Manchester and Palmyra. The northern terminus of the NY 21/332 overlap was also once the southern terminus of New York State Route 88; however, the route has since been truncated to Phelps. Route 332, which changes from South Main Street to North Main Street at West Avenue, continues north through the city, becoming a four-lane divided highway and passing into the town of Canandaigua at North Road.

[edit] Canandaigua to Farmington

The level of development along NY 332 begins to decline as the roadway heads north from Canandaigua. The road winds to the northwest, traversing the rural northern portion of Canandaigua before passing seamlessly into the town of Farmington. Upon crossing the town line, development along the road rises once more, increasing in density as NY 332 approaches New York State Route 96. The two routes meet roughly 2.5 miles from the Canandaigua-Farmington line at an intersection near the Finger Lakes Gaming and Race Track, situated a mile to the southeast, and East Victor, a hamlet located on NY 96 a mile to the west.

Past the bustling intersection, the landscape surrounding NY 332 reverts back to a rural setting as the road continues to the northwest. Less than a mile from the Thruway, NY 332 intersects Collett Road, the final roadway to cross the median of NY 332, at a four-way signalized intersection prior to crossing over the Ontario Central Railroad via an overpass. Midway between the Thruway toll barrier and the Ontario Central, NY 332 north intersects Loomis Road while NY 332 south meets Gateway Drive. Due to the closed median, only right turns are permitted, both from NY 332 and the intersecting roads. In the 900 feet north of the junction, the divided highway, in place from the Canandaigua city line northward, comes to an end, briefly making NY 332 a six-lane undivided highway before the designation terminates at the toll plaza for exit 44 of the New York State Thruway.

[edit] History

NY 332 was once much shorter and narrower than it is today. Over the years, the road has been extended twice and widened into a divided highway.

[edit] Northern terminus

Prior to the construction of the Thruway, NY 332 ended at NY 96. When the portion of the Thruway from Rochester east to the Westmoreland hamlet of Lowell opened on 24 June 1954, NY 332 was extended north to its present northern terminus, meeting the Thruway at what is now exit 44.^[1]^[3]

[edit] Southern terminus

In Canandaigua, NY 332 used to terminate at the intersection of Main Street and West Avenue, the latter carrying NY 5 and US 20 into downtown.^[1] NY 5 and US 20, along with NY 21, which runs concurrent with NY 332 from Gibson Street southward, followed Main Street south to Bristol Street, where NY 21 separated from the concurrency and followed Bristol Street west out of the city toward Naples. Routes 5 and 20 continued along Main to Lakeshore Drive, where the routes broke from Main and followed the length of Lakeshore, running along the northern shoreline of Canandaigua Lake before rejoining its current alignment just east of New York State Route 364 and County Route 10 in Hopewell. In the late 1960s, NY 5 and US 20 were realigned onto a new divided highway (the Eastern Bypass) between Main Street and Hopewell located north of Lakeshore Drive.^[4]^[5]

In 1981, construction on the Western Bypass, a divided highway encircling the southwestern portion of Canandaigua between West Avenue Extension and South Main Street, was completed. Routes 5 and 20 were rerouted onto the highway, separating from West Avenue a half-mile from the city line and following the roadway around the city to South Main, where Routes 5 and 20 intersected the previously built Eastern Bypass. The routing of NY 21 was affected in a similar fashion by the construction as instead of following Bristol Street into Canandaigua, NY 21 was realigned onto the bypass between Bristol and South Main Streets. NY 21 then turned north onto South Main, rejoining its previous alignment at Bristol. Additionally, NY 332 was extended southward from West Avenue to its present southern terminus at the Western/Eastern Bypass connection, prolonging the already-existing overlap with NY 21 in the process.^[1]^[4]^[5]

The section of West Avenue vacated by NY 5 and US 20 in the town of Canandaigua is now Reference Route 942W while Bristol Street between the Western Bypass and the Canandaigua city line is now Reference Route 943A. Reference Route 942T, Main Street between Lakeshore Drive and modern Routes 5 and 20, is a remnant of the routing of NY 5 and US 20 prior to the 1960s.^[2]

[edit] Roadway widening

NY 332 from the Canandaigua city line north to the Thruway toll barrier for exit 44 was originally a two-lane undivided roadway. Due to commercial and residential growth along the corridor, improvements were necessary to increase the capacity of the route. In 1994, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) initiated a project to double the width of NY 332, turning the route into a four-lane divided highway with a restrictive median. Construction was completed eight years later.^[6]

The restrictive median in place on NY 332 enables the existence of center turning lanes for each road the route intersects; however, the median prevents access to businesses on the opposite side of the road.

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile^[7]	Road(s)	Notes
Ontario	City of Canandaigua	0.00	NY 5/US 20/NY 21	Southern terminus of NY 21/332 overlap.
		0.50	NY 21 Bristol St.	Former southern terminus of overlap.
		0.73	NY 5/US 20 West Ave.	Former southern terminus of NY 332.
		0.95	NY 21 Gibson St.	Northern terminus of overlap. Former southern terminus of NY 88.
	Farmington	7.86	NY 96
	Farmington	9.05	I-90/Thruway	Exit 44 (I-90/Thruway).