
The Buffalo/Niagara Falls area had numerous cancelled expressways, the most visible of which is the stub ending of the LaSalle Expressway where it was planned to continue as the Belt Expressway (no relation to the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn and Queens). Also visible is exits 6 and 8 on I-190, which were intended to be the endpoints of the Kensington Expressway, the partial stub on I-990 where it would have continued north to Lockport, and the removed sections of the Niagara Scenic Parkway. On the map above, the only sections of proposed freeway/expressway to eventually be built are the Southern Expressway (US 219), the Aurora Expressway (NY 400), part of NY 425 (a divided highway), and part of the Lockport Expressway (I-990). The image above shows the existing and proposed freeway system for Buffalo/Niagara Falls in 1971, from a design report prepared by De Leuw, Cather & Company.