History
When NY 78 was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York, it initially bypassed the southeastern Buffalo suburbs on a routing that passed through the village of East Aurora, the hamlet of Elma, and the village of Lancaster. It was rerouted c. 1932 to head west from East Aurora instead by way of an overlap with US 20 (now US 20A), then head north on Transit Road to rejoin its former routing in Depew. NY 78 was realigned again c. 1939 to overlap NY 16 northwest from East Aurora, bypassing the southernmost portion of Transit Road. The former routing of NY 78 between US 20A and US 20 was redesignated as NY 187 in the early 1940s.
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