History
The 2-mile (3.2 km) segment of the Rochester Outer Loop between NY 33A and NY 31 was completed c. 1963. It was originally designated as part of NY 47, which had followed the parallel Howard Road to the west prior to the freeway's construction. Work on an extension north to US 104 (now NY 104) began in the mid-1960s and was completed in the early 1970s. The freeway officially became part of NY 47 on January 1, 1970, when the route was extended northward over the then-proposed Outer Loop to a new terminus at the Lake Ontario State Parkway. In actuality, however, NY 47 never extended any farther north than NY 104, which served as the freeway's northern terminus throughout the 1970s.
In the late 1970s, the state of New York submitted a proposal to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials that would substantially alter how the Outer Loop was numbered. As part of the plan, the NY 47 designation would be eliminated while the northwestern section of the Outer Loop—from I-490 in Gates to the proposed northern terminus at the Lake Ontario Parkway in Greece—would become the northernmost part of I-390. Most of the proposed changes took effect on March 18, 1980, when NY 47 was eliminated; however, I-390 was modified to end at its junction with I-490. In its place, the Gates–Greece leg of the Outer Loop was assigned NY 390. The NY 390 designation was extended northward to its current terminus in the early 1980s when the segment of the Outer Loop between NY 104 and the Lake Ontario State Parkway was completed.
The pair of interchanges connecting NY 390 to I-490 and NY 31 have two major movements that cause weaving. The first is on NY 390 northbound, where traffic entering NY 390 from I-490 west must immediately merge into traffic to avoid taking the NY 31 exit while motorists already on NY 390 must cross traffic coming from I-490 to reach the ramp for NY 31. The other is on NY 390 southbound, where commuters entering NY 390 south from NY 31 must cross several lanes of traffic to access I-490 east. Additionally, the junction between NY 390 / I-390 and I-490 serves over 200,000 cars daily and is often home to traffic jams during the morning and evening rush hours. In July 2010, the New York State Department of Transportation began soliciting ideas on how to improve the junction. Roughly $32 million has been earmarked for a future project to improve the interchange, which is tentatively scheduled to begin in mid-2014.
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