Photo Gallery: Hutchinson River Pkwy.
| We're approaching the interchange with Interstate 287. As we're in late October in the final fall of the 1900s, the foliage has started its annual coming out party. |
| I-287, also known as the Cross Westchester Expwy, heads east as far as it can go short of the Oyster Bay Bridge ever being built. Westward it eventually joins the Thomas Dewey NYS Thruway, its I-87 parent. |
| The Hutch has widened by this point in preparation for the fork splitting its middle lane between itself and Interstate 684. All that good stuff takes place shortly after it completes its business with the Cross Westchester. White Plains leaves visitors there wondering where the hell the plains are. It is actually quite hilly. |
| The I-287 overpass shows some attempt at fitting in with the usual parkway stonefacing, but was punched through in a much less sentimental era. Robert Moses loved naming highways Cross This and Cross That, the most infamous being the Cross Bronx, not that the Cross Westchester doesn't try. Probably because he tended to often be cross with alot of people. |
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Don't you hate signs that tell you that by staying on the
road you're already on, you stay on the road you're already on?
Actually you don't, because the road you're already on is soon
going to be another road. It appears that good ole Annie Hutchinson
didn't have much merit in Connecticut and the parkway changes
names with the change in states. I-684 wishes it had a name. For all the notable dead people on earth who've never had anything named for them, nobody seems to want to be remembered as I-684. |