 The revised proposal was approved by city voters by a 641–250 vote in 1953, allowing for bills to add the roads as state highways to enter the New York State Legislature in January 1954.Both were approved and signed into law by Governor Thomas E. Dewey within two months.Originally, the state had planned on transferring maintenance of a state highway to Chenango County to offset the mileage acquired by taking over part of East River Road, which had previously been county-maintained.