Western New York
- I-990 was planned in the 1960s to at least reach Lockport and was even rumored to be part of a Niagara Falls to Rochester freeway but instead ends at NY 263. I-990 initially terminated at North French Road and was extended to its current terminus at the end of 1990, though it was not officially labeled I-990 until 1993. At NY 263, there is an eastbound mainline stub extending from what was to be an exit there. There is also a visible remnant of what was built in Lockport and was to be a bypass of that city. The road, actually termed the Lockport Bypass and signed as NY 93, is about one mile (1.6 km) long and is only a shadow of what it was planned to be.
- The Robert Moses Parkway is interrupted through Niagara Falls State Park. North of the park, the road has been turned into a two-lane expressway by replacing the southbound roadway with a bikeway.
- There were plans at one time for the "Outer Beltway" of the greater Buffalo area and it was to be signed I-890. This beltway did not make it to full fruition but parts do exist as the Mile Strip Expressway (NY 179) and as the LaSalle Expressway, where there are stubs for a continuation past Williams Road.
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