adding the Utica–Rome Expressway to the Interstate Highway System, the area would receive approximately $10 million in additional federal highway funding over the next five years. According to Arcuri, the proposed redesignation is part of a larger, long-term goal of creating an Interstate Highway-standard freeway that would begin at Thruway exit 33 in Verona and pass through Rome before ending at Thruway exit 31. The portion of NY 49 east of NY 825 already meets Interstate Highway standards. Major intersections Suffixed routes NY 26A was an alternate route of NY 26 between Lowville, Lewis County, and Carthage, Jefferson County. While NY 26 followed a direct routing between the two villages, NY 26A veered to the east to serve Croghan. The route was assigned as part of the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York and renumbered to NY 126 and NY 812 in the late 1970s. NY 26B was a spur route in Alexandria that connected NY 26 to NY 37 in the hamlet of Redwood in Jefferson County. The route was assigned and renumbered to NY 287 in the mid-1970s when NY 26 was cut back to Carthage. See also List of county routes in Jefferson County, New York List of county routes in Madison County, New York References External links 026 Transportation in Broome County, New York Transportation in Cortland County, New York Transportation in Chenango County, New York Transportation in Madison County, New York Transportation in Lewis County, New York Transportation in Oneida County, New York Transportation in Jefferson County, New York Transportation in Rome, New York