{{Short description|Highway in New York}} {{good article}} {{For|the state Highway in Plattsburgh|New York State Route 190}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2013}} {{Use American English|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox road | state = NY | type = I | route = 190 | alternate_name = Niagara Thruway | map = {{maplink-road}} | map_custom = yes | map_notes = I-190 highlighted in red | maint = NYSTA, NYSDOT and the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission | length_mi = 28.34 | length_ref = <ref name="fhwa">{{cite web |last=Starks |first=Edward |date=January 27, 2022 |title=Table 2: Auxiliary Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/table02.cfm |access-date=November 29, 2022 |work=FHWA Route Log and Finder List |publisher=Federal Highway Administration}}</ref> | established = 1959<ref name="i50" /> |tourist= 20px Lake Erie Circle Tour | spur_type = I | spur_of = 90 | direction_a = South | terminus_a = {{jct|state=NY|I|90|NYST}} in Cheektowaga | junction = {{Plainlist| *{{jct|state=NY|NY|5}} in Buffalo *Peace Bridge in Buffalo *{{jct|state=NY|NY|198}} near Black Rock *{{jct|state=NY|I|290}} in Tonawanda *{{jct|state=NY|NY|324}} in Grand Island *{{jct|state=NY|NY|384|LSEX||Parkway|Niagara Scenic}} in Niagara Falls *{{jct|state=NY|US|62}} in Niagara Falls *{{jct|state=NY|NY|31}} in Niagara Falls *{{jct|state=NY|NY|104|NY|265|Parkway|Niagara Scenic}} in Lewiston }} | direction_b = North | terminus_b = {{jcon|Hwy|405}} at the Canadian border in Lewiston | counties = Erie, Niagara | previous_type = NY | previous_route = 189 | next_type = NY | next_route = 190 | browse = {{ny browse|previous_type=NY|previous_route=90|route=25px|alt=I-90N|link=|next_type=NY|next_route=91}} }} '''Interstate 190''' ('''I-190''', locally known as '''the One-Ninety''') is a north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in the United States that connects I-90 in Buffalo, New York, with the Canada–United States border at Lewiston, New York, near Niagara Falls. Officially, I-190 from I-90 north to New York State Route 384 (NY 384) is named the '''Niagara Thruway''' and is part of the New York State Thruway system. The remainder, from NY 384 to Lewiston, is known as the '''Niagara Expressway''' and is maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT).
The freeway bisects downtown Buffalo before crossing Grand Island and travelling around the outskirts of Niagara Falls before crossing the Niagara River on the Lewiston–Queenston Bridge into the Canadian province of Ontario. In Canada, the freeway continues as Ontario Highway 405, a short spur connecting with the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW), which in turn provides a freeway connection to Toronto, Canada's largest city. The {{convert|28.34|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} route also provides access to the QEW at the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ontario. I-190 is currently the only three-digit interstate to connect directly with Canada, and one of only two to connect to an international border, the other being I-110 in Texas, which connects to Mexico.
Parts of the highway were built along the former right-of-ways of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Erie Canal. The entire route was built as part of the New York State Thruway in the late 1950s and early 1960s and was completed in 1964. The cost of I-190's construction had been paid off by 1996, and, by law, the tolls along the freeway were supposed to be removed at that point; however, this did not occur until 2006.
==Route description== left|thumb|I-190 approaching exit 11 in Buffalo I-190 begins at an interchange with the New York State Thruway (I-90) in Cheektowaga in Erie County, just north of the West Seneca town line and east of the Buffalo city line. I-190 heads west into Buffalo, passing the former location of the City Line toll barrier ahead of an interchange with South Ogden Street (exit 1). Farther west, I-190 meets NY 354 (exit 2), NY 16 (exit 3), and several local streets before entering downtown Buffalo. Within the downtown area, I-190 passes between KeyBank Center and Sahlen Field near an interchange with NY 5 (exit 7) on the shores of Lake Erie. At NY 5, I-190 turns northward to follow the path of the Niagara River. Shortly after meeting NY 266 (exit 8) immediately northwest of downtown, I-190 interchanges with Porter Avenue (exit 9), a local roadway connecting I-190 to the Peace Bridge and, thus, the QEW in Canada.<ref name="bing">{{bing maps|url=http://binged.it/PmXY5r|title=overview map of Interstate 190|access-date=September 13, 2012}}</ref>
North of downtown Buffalo, I-190 follows the eastern edge of the Black Rock Channel (and passes the site of the former Black Rock toll barrier) before rejoining the banks of the Niagara near an exit with the Scajaquada Expressway (NY 198, exit 11). I-190 continues north through the northern extents of Buffalo, meeting multiple streets before separating from the Niagara and interchanging with NY 266 and NY 324 (exits 15 and 16) in quick succession. At exit 16, NY 324 joins I-190 northward through western Tonawanda. The two routes then meet I-290 and NY 266 a second time prior to crossing the Niagara River on the South Grand Island Bridge. NY 324 leaves the expressway shortly after arriving on Grand Island at exit 18.<ref name="bing" />
[[File:I-190 NY north at exit 18A.jpg|thumb|right|Helvetica signage for exit 18A on I-190]] I-190 and NY 324 follow parallel routings across Grand Island, with both roads passing on opposite sides of Niagara Amusement Park & Splash World, a local amusement park, near the center of the island. At the northern edge of the island, NY 324, as signed, terminates at exit 20; however, officially, NY 324 rejoins I-190 across the Niagara River once again via the North Grand Island Bridge. Now in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY 324 ends at a complex interchange featuring NY 384, the Niagara Scenic Parkway, and the LaSalle Expressway on the eastern bank of the river. Farther north, I-190 meets US Route 62 (US 62) at exit 22 and NY 182 at exit 23.<ref name="bing" />
Past NY 182, I-190 turns to the northwest, skirting the northeastern edge of Niagara Falls and roughly paralleling NY 265 to the east. In Lewiston, the expressway meets NY 31 at exit 24 southwest of the large Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant reservoir. I-190 continues onward, crossing the canal between the reservoir and the power plant on a small dam also used by NY 265. The freeway then interchanges with NY 265, the Niagara Scenic Parkway, and NY 104 at the expansive exit 25 before curving to the west and terminating at the approach to the Lewiston–Queenston Bridge. Across the bridge in Queenston, Ontario, the roadway becomes Highway 405.<ref name="bing" />
==History== {{infobox road small |state=NY |type=I 1957 |route=90N |county= |location=Buffalo–Lewiston |formed=1957<ref name="1957numbers" /> |deleted=1959<ref name="i50" /> }}
The portion of modern I-190 south of NY 384 in Niagara Falls was originally built by the New York State Thruway Authority (NYSTA) as part of the New York State Thruway system. Construction on two segments of the highway—from South Ogden Street to Porter Avenue in downtown Buffalo and from Beaver Island Parkway to West River Road on Grand Island—began in 1953.<ref name="cityonthelake">{{cite book | title=City on the Lake: The Challenge of Change in Buffalo, New York |first=Mark |last=Goldman | publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1990 |page=31 |isbn=0879755792}}</ref> On Grand Island, construction began to connect the two existing two lane bridges on July 16, 1954.<ref>{{cite news |title=Niagara Thruway Begun |work=The New York Times|date=July 17, 1954 |page=11}}</ref> By 1955, construction had begun on the remainder of the Niagara Thruway.<ref>{{cite news |title=Thruway Spurs in North Rushed |work=The New York Times|date=August 6, 1955 |page=57}}</ref> On July 30, 1959, the thruway was opened from the Tri-Level Interchange at I-90 to Porter Avenue and from Sheridan Drive to the southern Grand Island bridge.<ref>{{cite news |title=Thruway Crosses Buffalo as Niagara Strip Opens |work=The New York Times|date=July 30, 1959 |page=10}}</ref> The remainder of the highway, with the exception of the twinned Grand Island bridges, was completed by 1964.<ref>{{cite news |title=Niagara Highway Network Nears Completion |first=Cliff |last=Spieler |work=The New York Times|date=May 6, 1964 |page=XX7}}</ref>
On August 14, 1957, the routing of what is now I-190 (including the then-partially complete Niagara Thruway) was originally designated as I-90N, as intercity routes were assigned before auxiliary Interstate numbers were applied to the shorter intracity routes.<ref name="1957numbers">{{cite map |publisher=American Association of State Highway Officials |title=Official Route Numbering for the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways |date=August 14, 1957}}</ref> I-90N was renumbered to I-190 on February 24, 1959.<ref name="i50">{{cite web |url=http://www.transportation1.org/interstate50th/history/2006-02-24.shtml |title=Today in Interstate History: February 24 |author=American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |author-link=American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |year=2006 |access-date=April 22, 2012 |quote=February 24, 1959: The American Association of State Highway Officials formally approved changing the designation for I-90N in New York to I-190. }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Construction on the portion of I-190 north of NY 384 began {{circa|1962}}<ref name="1961map">{{cite map |title=New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher=Sunoco |cartography=H.M. Gousha Company |year=1961 |edition=1961–62}}</ref><ref>{{cite map |title=New York with Sight-Seeing Guide |publisher=Esso |cartography=General Drafting |year=1962}}</ref> and was completed by 1964.<ref>{{cite map |title=New York and Metropolitan New York |publisher=Sinclair Oil Corporation |year=1964 |cartography=Rand McNally and Company}}</ref>
In 1991, maintenance of I-84 in downstate New York was transferred from NYSDOT to the NYSTA. The monies for that purpose came from tolls levied on I-190 in downtown Buffalo.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070920/BIZ/709200321/-1/NEWS03 |newspaper=Times Herald-Record |location=Middletown, NY |first=Judy |last=Rife |title=Thruway retains I-84 upkeep |date=September 20, 2007 |access-date=October 30, 2007 |archive-date=May 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518012044/http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070920/BIZ/709200321/-1/NEWS03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Under the laws authorizing the thruway construction, the tolls were to be removed once the original bonds used to pay for the construction were paid off, which occurred in 1996; however, the tolls would remain for 10 more years. Attorney Carl Paladino brought a lawsuit against the state in 2006 to force the removal of the tolls.<ref name="crains">{{cite news |last=Smerd |first=Jeremy |date=September 26, 2010 |url=http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20100926/FREE/309269962 |title=Accidental candidate |work=Crain's New York Business |access-date=September 26, 2010}}</ref> On October 30, 2006, the NYSTA voted to both begin the process of returning maintenance of I-84 to NYSDOT and to remove the tolls on I-190 in Buffalo. Collection of the tolls stopped that day.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.nysthruway.gov/news/pressrel/2006/10/2006-10-30-buff-tolls-ceased.html |title=Thruway Authority Tolls Ceased At Black Rock and City Line Toll Barriers |publisher=New York State Thruway Authority |date=October 30, 2006 |access-date=October 30, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927184734/http://www.nysthruway.gov/news/pressrel/2006/10/2006-10-30-buff-tolls-ceased.html |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Both major candidates in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election, Democrat Eliot Spitzer and Republican John Faso, had pledged to remove the tolls on I-190 if elected.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2006/10/30/daily8.html |title=I-190 tolls in rear-view mirror |newspaper=Business First of Buffalo |first=James |last=Fink |date=October 30, 2006 |access-date=October 30, 2007}}</ref> While the toll barriers in Buffalo were demolished, the tolls further north on the two Grand Island bridges remained for another 12 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Grand Island Bridges |publisher=Niagara Falls Info |url=http://www.niagarafallsinfo.com/history-item.php?entry_id=1403¤t_category_id=235 |access-date= January 31, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The I-190 Tolls |publisher=Higgins for Congress |url=http://www.higginsforcongress.com/tolls |access-date=January 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140124000531/http://www.higginsforcongress.com/tolls |archive-date=January 24, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They were finally replaced with electronic tolling in 2018 and have since been demolished.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grand Island cashless tolls begin; here's what you need to know |publisher=WGRZ |url= https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/grand-island-cashless-tolls-begin-thursday-night/71-532884027 |access-date= August 12, 2022}}</ref>
==Exit list== {{NYinttop|exit|length_ref=<ref name=mileage>Mileage derived as follows: * I-90 to exit 21: {{cite web |url=http://www.nysthruway.gov/travelers/interchanges/twyinterchanges.pdf |title=New York State Thruway Interchange Listing |access-date=October 29, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203172523/http://www.nysthruway.gov/travelers/interchanges/twyinterchanges.pdf |archive-date=December 3, 2007 |df=mdy-all }} * Exits 21 to 25B: {{cite web |url=https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/Traffic%20Data%20Report%202008.pdf |title=2008 Traffic Data Report for New York State |date=June 16, 2009 |page=260 |publisher=New York State Department of Transportation |access-date=January 28, 2010 |archive-date=September 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927022429/https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/Traffic%20Data%20Report%202008.pdf |url-status=dead }} * Exit 25B to Canada: FHWA Route Log and Finder List</ref>}} {{NYint|exit |county=Erie |cspan=26 |location= Cheektowaga |mile=0.00 |exit=– |road={{jct|state=NY|I|90|name1=New York Thruway|location1=Buffalo Airport|city2=Albany|location3=Erie|extra=airport}} |notes=Southern terminus; exit 53 on I-90 / Thruway }} {{NYint|exit |location=Buffalo |lspan=16 |mile=0.70 |exit=1 |road=South Ogden Street }} {{NYint|exit |mile=1.56 |exit=2 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|354|US|62|name1=Clinton Street|name2=Bailey Avenue|to2=yes}} }} {{NYint|exit |mile=2.22 |exit=3 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|16|name1=Seneca Street}} |type=incomplete |notes=Southbound exit and northbound entrance }} {{NYint|exit |mile=3.14 |exit=4 |road=Smith Street / Fillmore Avenue }} {{NYint|exit |mile=3.79 |exit=5 |road=Hamburg Street |notes=Northbound exit and entrance |espan=2|type=incomplete}} {{NYint|mile=4.13 |road=Louisiana Street |notes=Southbound exit and entrance |type=incomplete}} {{NYint|exit |mile=4.99 |exit=6 |road=Elm Street – Canalside }} {{NYint|exit |mile=5.10 |exit=7 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|5|Tour|LECT|dir2=west|location1=Buffalo Outer Harbor|city2=Lackawanna}} |type=incomplete |notes=No northbound exit |espan=2}} {{NYint|mile=5.20 |road=Church Street – Buffalo Outer Harbor |type=incomplete |notes=No southbound exit }} {{NYint|exit |mile=5.86 |exit=8 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|266|dir1=north|name1=Niagara Street}} |notes=Southern terminus of NY 266 }} {{NYint|exit |mile=6.58 |exit=9 |road={{jct|state=ON|road|Peace Bridge|name1={{jct|state=NY|NY|955B|noshield=yes|dir1=west}}|Hwy|QEW|to2=yes|Tour|LECT|name3=Porter Avenue / Niagara Street|location1=Fort Erie, Canada}} |notes=Signed for Porter Avenue southbound, Niagara Street northbound }} {{NYint|exit |mile=8.69 |exit=11 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|198|dir1=east|name1=Scajaquada Expressway}} |notes=Western terminus of NY 198 }} {{NYint|exit |mile=9.18 |exit=12 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|266|road|Amherst Street}} |type=incomplete |notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance; NY 266 not signed }} {{NYint|exit |mile=9.44 |exit=13 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|266|road|Austin Street}} |type=incomplete |notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance; NY 266 not signed }} {{NYint|exit |mile=9.88 |exit=14 |road=Ontario Street |type=incomplete |notes=Southbound exit and northbound entrance |espan=2}} {{NYint|mile=10.50 |road=To Vulcan Street |type=incomplete |notes=Northbound exit and southbound entrance; access via NY 266 }} {{NYint|exit |location=Tonawanda |lspan=3 |area=town |mile=12.36 |exit=15 |type=concur |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|324|dir1=east}} / {{jctname|state=NY|NY|325|dir1=east|noshield1=yes|name1=Sheridan Drive|road|Kenmore Avenue}} |notes=Southern end of NY 324 concurrency }} {{NYint|exit |mile=13.33 |exit=16 |road={{jct|state=NY|I|290|dir1=east|to2=yes|I|90|NYST||city1=Rochester|city2=Tonawanda|areadab2=city}} |notes=Western terminus of I-290 }} {{NYint|exit |mile=14.20 |exit=17 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|266|name1=River Road|city1=North Tonawanda|city2=Tonawanda|areadab2=city}} |notes=Signed as the "Tonawandas" on guide signs }} {{jctbridge|exit |location_special=Niagara River |bridge=South Grand Island Bridge (northbound toll; E-ZPass or Toll by Mail) |type=etc |mile=14.50|mile2=14.90}} {{NYint|exit |location=Grand Island |lspan=5 |mile=15.35 |exit=18A |type=concur |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|324|name1=Grand Island Boulevard|dir1=west}} |notes=Northern end of NY 324 concurrency; northbound exit and southbound entrance }} {{NYint|exit |mile=15.46 |exit=18B |road=Beaver Island State Park |notes=Signed as exit 18 southbound }} {{NYint|exit |mile=17.27 |exit=19 |road=Whitehaven Road }} {{NYint|exit |mile=19.32 |exit=20B |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|324|name1=Grand Island Boulevard|dir1=east|road|Long Road}} |notes=Signed as exit 20 northbound; southern end of NY 324 concurrency |type=concur}} {{NYint|exit |mile=19.69 |exit=20A |road=West River Road |type=incomplete |notes=No northbound exit }} {{jctbridge|exit |river=Niagara River |bridge=North Grand Island Bridge (southbound toll; E-ZPass or Toll by Mail) |type=etc |mile=20.32|mile2=21.12}} {{NYint|exit |county=Niagara |cspan=7 |location=Niagara Falls |lspan=4 |mile=21.14 |exit=21 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|384|Parkway|Niagara Scenic|dir2=north|name1=Buffalo Avenue|location1=Niagara Falls}}<br>{{jct|state=NY|NY|324|dir1=ends}} |type=concur|notes=Northern terminus of NY 324; Niagara Parkway not signed southbound}} {{NYint|exit |mile=21.24 |type=trans |place=Transition between Niagara Thruway and Niagara Expressway }} {{NYint|exit |exit=21A |road={{jct|state=NY|LSEX|dir1=east|city1=North Tonawanda|city2=Tonawanda|areadab2=city}} |notes=Signed as the "Tonawandas" on guide signs |mile=21.53}} {{NYint|exit |mile=22.08 |exit=22 |road={{jct|state=NY|US|62|name1=Niagara Falls Boulevard|location1=Niagara Falls International Airport|extra=airport}} }} {{NYint|exit |location=Niagara |lspan=2 |mile=23.74 |exit=23 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|182|name1=Packard Road / Porter Road}} }} {{NYint|exit |mile=25.87 |exit=24 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|31|name1=Witmer Road}} }} {{NYint|exit |location=Lewiston |area=town |mile=27.72 |exit=25 |road={{jct|state=NY|NY|104|NY|265|Parkway|Niagara Scenic|city1=Lewiston|areadab1=village}} |notes=Signed as exits 25A (NY 265) and 25B (NY 104/Niagara) northbound; no southbound access to NY 265 |type=incomplete }} {{Jctbridge|exit |river=Niagara River |lspan=2 |mile=28.34 |mspan=2 |bridge=Lewiston–Queenston Bridge<br>Canada–US border }} {{Jctint|exit |mile=none |exit=– |road={{jct|province=ON|ON|405|dir1=west|location1=St. Catharines|city2=Hamilton|location3=Toronto}} |notes=Continuation into Ontario }} {{jctbtm|exit|keys=concur,incomplete,etc,trans}}
==See also== {{Portal|U.S. roads}} * LaSalle Expressway * Niagara Scenic Parkway
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Interstate 190 (New York)}} {{Attached KML}} {{NYSR external links|type=I|nyroutes=yes|route=190|alps=yes|unyrds=yes}}
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