History
Plans to construct a limited-access highway between Buffalo and Lockport were formulated as early as the 1970s. Under the 1971 Regional Highway Plan for the Buffalo–Niagara Falls area, the highway would begin at I-290 and head generally northeasterly to NY 31 east of Lockport. In between, it would intersect the proposed Belt Expressway as well as NY 78 (Transit Road).
The outer belt proposal was mostly dropped; however, construction began in the early 1980s on the portion of the Lockport Expressway from I-290 to Sweet Home Road. The highway was opened to traffic as I-990 by 1985. An extension of the highway to North French Road was built during the mid-1980s and completed by 1990 as part of I-990. A second extension of the freeway to NY 263 (Millersport Highway) southwest of Lockport was opened to traffic on December 21, 1990, and added to I-990 on October 22, 1993.
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