Senate Oks bill to change highway exit numbers
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  The state Senate today passed a bill that would change the way highway exits are numbered, from the current sequential system to one that is mileage-based.
That’s how 43 other states already do it, said Transportation Committee Chairman Thomas Libous, and would make it easier for people to know where they are.
The shift, which would cost about $11 million, mostly for new signs, would take effect in 2012. Libous said that for a couple of years at least the exits would be marked under both systems.
The idea faces an uncertain fate in the Assembly, where sponsor William Parment, D-Jamestown, Chautauqua County, is trying to get it out of the Transportation Committee.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
