Utica to Exit 31 of Thruway

When you get to Poland from the east, you turn right or north in Poland Village to keep on NY Route 8 south (backwards). You double route on NY 28 for a couple miles, then NY 28 turns right and crosses Cincinnatus Creek and our NY Route 8 hooks off to the south and becomes a 4 lane limited access highway when it meets our NY Route 12 south coming down the hill from Barnveld and Boonville. It is now NY 8 & 12. The road is bascally a big toboggan run all the way down the plateau and the Adirondacks into the City of Utica and the Thruway, I-90. It is not a very scenic stretch or road on a divided expressway, but it's a quick and easy run to Exit 31 of the New York State Thruway. Utica is a fairly large older industrial city, Onieda County's seat, built along the same canal, road and rail corridot the other Mohawk Valley towns are. But Utica is west of the Mohawk Pass and then you enter the flatter north-western part of New York State.