The Thruway and Binghamton Tomorrow

[pgoughary]

At 48 seconds into this video, the police officer directing traffic is my grandfather.

[meekodusty]

Too bad NY taxes killed the industries. It was a great place to grow up and live in, but there is not much left. So sad.

[manidig]

Great shots of downtown Binghamton and Endicott.

[larryirun]

Someone correct me if I am wrong but I think that the original plan was to make I-81 part of the Thruway system and thus, a toll road.

How about those shots of the Thruway with soft shoulders? Any roadgeeks have any idea which interchange that is shown?

[zzzdogutube]

Awesome film

[McMahonGA]

It is too bad that the Thruway never came through the Triple Cities, as they could have used the industry that it would have brought, and as it did not, Binghamton has all but died!

[david1122321]

It's nice to know that Binghamton has always been a dump.

[terrykeithline]

I really enjoyed the trip back in time,, Terry keithline

[conlaw7]

Thanks for posting. Beautiful video of my beautiful home town.

Connie Conole Carey

[frankrodz1]

Loved the video of my adopted city. Did you see ? no seatbelts!!

[sideswipe091976]

I believe they are referring to RT 17. It goes the entire state and cuts through the town.

The refer to the washington street bridge and show the old owego rt96 bridge. Both lead me to think it's rt 17

[dlainhart]

@sideswipe091976 Pardon? Look closely: that's not the old Owego 96 bridge (which used to carry 17), that's the Washington Street Bridge at the confluence and the Riverside Drive Bridge, complete with old-style NY 17 trailblazer

[bluto25]

The land before time...

[JoeTierno]

I was ten years old in 1951 and can see old neighborhoods and places where I worked and played. It was a great city.

[jdursoesq]

120,000 industrial worksers. Wow. What a change (for the worse.)

How we've gone from the world's greatest industrial power to a "consumer" nation in 60 years is a tragedy.

[104trucker]

2:19 a brockway! there were some more i think 2:56, 1:11 maybe

[bd81064]

Great to see. Thanks for posting it!

[Mrkissuallover12]

I guess the Thruway to Binghamton never came to fruition.

[Bumppo]

Obviously this was made before the Interstate Highway System was designed. The federal program supplanted this idea, so Interstates 81, 88, and future 86 are portions of what was planned at the time this video was made.

[alleycat0]

Actually, it did, kind of - Route 17, also known as the Southern Tier Expressway, was constructed through Binghamton, and runs the entire breadth of the state west to east. The highway is currently being converted to I-86.