:New York State Route 391

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NY 391 begins at an intersection with NY 277 (Herman Hill Road) in North Boston, a hamlet within the town of Boston. It heads to the northwest as Boston State Road, passing by suburban homes as it approaches the Southern Expressway (US 219). The two highways meet by way of a diamond interchange. West of the exit, NY 391's surroundings become more rural as it enters the town of Hamburg, where it passes by open fields and a handful of houses.{{Google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBF_enUS232US232&q=from:+Boston+State+Rd/RT-391+%4042.685710,+-78.776680+to:+E+Main+St/RT-391+%4042.715830,+-78.829430&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl |title=overview map of NY 391 |access-date=March 26, 2008}}

The route follows Eighteen Mile Creek northwest and west toward the village of Hamburg, where the amount of development along the highway increases significantly. At McKinley Parkway (County Route 204), NY 391 becomes East Main Street and begins to pass through the outskirts of the village. It officially enters Hamburg upon intersecting Sunnyside Drive two blocks to the west. The route continues into the village center, passing by commercial and residential buildings on its way to a roundabout at Buffalo Street, where it meets US 62. At this point, NY 391 comes to an end while US 62 turns west onto Main Street from Buffalo Street.

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What is now NY 391 was originally designated as part of NY 62, a highway extending from Great Valley north to Buffalo, in the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York.{{cite news |last=Dickinson |first=Leon A. |title=New Signs for State Highways |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 12, 1930 |page=136}}{{cite map |title=Road Map of New York |year=1930 |publisher=Standard Oil Company of New York |cartography=General Drafting}} US 62 was extended into New York {{circa|lk=no|1932}}; as a result, all of NY 62 south of Athol Springs was redesignated as NY 75 to eliminate numerical duplication with the U.S. Highway.{{cite map |title=New York |publisher=Kendall Refining Company |year=1931 |cartography=H.M. Gousha Company}}{{cite map |title=Texaco Road Map – New York |publisher=Texas Oil Company |year=1932 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}} US 219 was extended into New York {{circa|lk=no|1935}}, overlapping NY 75 between Great Valley and Hamburg.{{cite map |title=Road Map of New York |publisher=Texas Oil Company |year=1934 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}}{{cite map |title=Road Map & Historical Guide – New York |publisher=Sun Oil Company |year=1935 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}} The overlap was eliminated by 1940 following the truncation of NY 75 to what had been the west end of its overlap with US 62 through Hamburg.{{cite map |title=New York Info-Map |publisher=Gulf Oil Company |year=1940 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}}

In the early 1970s, construction began on the Southern Expressway, a limited-access highway connecting Buffalo to Springville. The first segment of the expressway—between the New York State Thruway east of Lackawanna and US 20A west of Orchard Park—opened to traffic by 1973 as a realignment of US 219. In between the end of the expressway and North Boston, US 219 temporarily overlapped US 20A and NY 277.{{cite map |title=New York |publisher=Shell Oil Company |cartography=H.M. Gousha Company |year=1973 |edition=1973}}{{cite map |title=New York Thruway |publisher=New York State Thruway Authority |cartography=Rand McNally and Company |year=1971}} The former routing of US 219 from North Boston to Hamburg was redesignated as NY 391 in June 1971.

An extension of the freeway south to NY 391 near North Boston opened in the mid-1970s, resulting in a slight, temporary truncation of NY 391 to the end of the freeway.{{cite map |title=New York and New Jersey Tourgide Map |publisher=Gulf Oil Company |cartography=Rand McNally and Company |year=1974}}{{cite map |title=New York |publisher=Exxon |year=1977 |edition=1977–78 |cartography=General Drafting}} Another extension of the expressway south to Springville was completed in the early 1980s. It became part of US 219 upon opening; at the same time, NY 391 was reextended to NY 277 in North Boston.{{cite map |title=I Love New York Tourism Map |publisher=State of New York |cartography=Rand McNally and Company |year=1981}}{{cite map |publisher=Rand McNally and Company |title=New York |year=1985 |isbn=0-528-91040-X}} The remainder of US 219's former routing south to Springville was transferred to Erie County upon the completion of the Springville–Buffalo segment of the Southern Expressway.{{cite web |author=New York State Legislature |author-link=New York State Legislature |url=http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi?COMMONQUERY=LAWS |title=New York State Highway Law § 341 |access-date=December 16, 2009}} Originally, NY 391 terminated at NY 75 in Hamburg, resulting in an extraneous overlap with US 62 for two blocks along Main Street. NY 391 was truncated to the eastern end of the concurrency {{circa|lk=no|2004}}.{{cite web |url=https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/Traffic%20Data%20Report%202004.pdf |title=2004 Traffic Data Report for New York State |page=253 |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |access-date=December 16, 2009}}{{cite book |url=https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/repository/tour_route_0.pdf |title=Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Bicycle Routes in New York State |author=New York State Department of Transportation |date=October 2004 |access-date=December 16, 2009}}

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