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Again, there is no argument about the city’s poverty rate. It is plain and simple, with perception and reality being different. That was the initial point.
I think with the cheap power and no taxes for the next 10 years, it may hang on. It really doesn't fit Verizon's long term plans. If it does get bought out it will really face an uncertain future.
CK, do you think 10 million NYS dollars is really going to change the future of Lockport?
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Could imagine the commute from newfane, olcott, barker and gasport to job centers. I see the traffic on millersport in the morning.
I always thought that 990 should've been extended northeastward to meet up when the Route 93 Bypass was built southwest of Lockport back around 1990. Same with extending Lake Ontario Parkway westward beyond Route 98 all the way through those first three towns you listed and into Youngstown. Unfortunately, the latter has been shrunk down as it used to have a western terminus at Gaines/Waterport Rd. and now ends at Route 98 and has fallen into disrepair.
990 should've started closer to downtown than the 290, parallelling Main St. from downtown northeastward to either the Route 93 Bypass in Lockport or further north to Lake Ontario.
On October 30, 1968, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) nominated 20 proposed highways to be added to the Interstate Highway System as part of a 1,500-mile (2,400 km) nationwide system expansion authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968. One of the submitted roads was the Lockport Expressway, a 12-mile (19 km), $22 million limited-access highway extending in a northeast–southwest direction between I-290 north of Buffalo and a proposed Niagara Falls–Rochester freeway near Lockport.[6] When the city of Niagara Falls released its Regional Highway Plan for the Buffalo–Niagara Falls area in 1971, the Niagara Falls–Rochester highway was scrapped; as a result, the north end of the Lockport Expressway was moved to a point on NY 31 east of Lockport. In between I-290 and NY 31, the highway would intersect the proposed Belt Expressway and NY 78 (Transit Road).[7]
While the outer belt proposal was mostly dropped, the plans to build the Lockport Expressway gained traction in January 1979 when the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) portion between I-290 and North French Road was added to the Interstate Highway System and designated as I-990.[1][8] The remainder of the original 12-mile route was excluded due to a lack of funding.[9] Construction began in 1980 on the part south of Sweet Home Road,[2][9] and the highway was opened to traffic by 1985. The section leading northeast to North French Road was built during the mid-1980s[2][3] and completed by 1990.[10] In 1986, NYSDOT began to evaluate ways to improve the highways surrounding the northern terminus of I-990. One of the potential options was an extension of the freeway to NY 263 (Millersport Highway) southwest of Lockport.[11] This option was ultimately selected, and the new section of the freeway was opened to traffic on December 21, 1990.[12] It was officially added to I-990 on October 22, 1993.[13]
In June 2013, Interstate 990 was renamed from the Lockport Expressway to the Staff Sergeant William R. Wilson III Memorial Highway. This is in honor of his contributions to the United States Military, which included training Afghan soldiers and police to take over the country's security. Staff Sergeant Wilson also served two combat deployments to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As a result, he was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He also received the National Defense Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, as well as the Army Service Ribbon and Overseas Service Ribbon. The bill to rename Interstate 990 was sponsored by State Senator Michael Ranzenhofer and Assemblyman Raymond Walter. Signage is now displayed at each terminus showing the new name.[14]
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