In an effort that brought together communities across the state, more than 1,000 miles of signage for both routes 5 and 9 was installed within two years by teams of NYSDOT staff.

A cross-state celebration ride was held in the summer of 1994, with teams of riders carrying water from the Hudson River and Niagara Falls to meet at Sylvan Beach in the middle of the state.

(photo provided) By 1996, NYSDOT adopted the first Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan,[2] which included a mapped network of signed routes connecting across the entire state.

He was a committed civil servant who, more than anyone, was instrumental in bringing about the State’s system of signed bike routes.

New York State Bicycle Route 5 runs from Niagara Falls east to the Massachusetts border in New Lebanon.

The route passes through the communities of Niagara Falls (with a spur to Buffalo), Lockport, Middleport, Albion, Rochester, Lyons, Baldwinsville, Rome, Utica, Herkimer, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Schenectady, Albany, and Rensselaer.

[8][9] New York State Bicycle Route 14 runs from the border of Yates and Ontario counties in Geneva north to Sodus Point, passing through Lyons.

The route passes through Mayville, where it splits into two branches alongside Chautauqua Lake that join again in Jamestown.

From here, the route passes through Salamanca, Allegany State Park, Olean, Wellsville, Bath, Corning, Elmira, Waverly, Binghamton, Hancock, Port Jervis, Middletown, Newburgh, and Beacon.

[8] New York State Bicycle Route 22 runs from Brewster north to New Lebanon, passing through Pawling, Wassaic, and Austerlitz.

[8] New York State Bicycle Route 23 runs from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge east to the Massachusetts border in Copake, passing through Greenport, Claverack, and Hillsdale.

[14] New York State Bicycle Route 25 runs from Smithtown east to Orient Point, passing through Port Jefferson Station, Shoreham, and Riverhead.

[15] New York State Bicycle Route 25A runs from the border of Nassau and Suffolk counties in Cold Spring Harbor east to Smithtown, passing through Huntington.

[17] New York State Bicycle Route 28 runs from Kingston north to the border of Delaware and Ulster counties in Shandaken, passing through Catskill Park.

Route 517 passes through the communities of Shore Haven, Westfield, Van Buren Bay, Dunkirk, Silver Creek, Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, Farnham, Evans Center, Mount Vernon, Blasdell, Lackawanna, Buffalo, Getzville, South Lockport before ending in the City of Lockport at New York State Bicycle Route 5.