Interstate 290 (abbreviated I-290) runs for 10 miles (16 km) near Buffalo, New York from I-90 to I-190. It connects Buffalo with its northern suburbs of Amherst and Tonawanda, and provides a route to Niagara Falls that bypasses the city of Buffalo. I-290 also connects to Interstate 990, and through this connection, provides access to the Amherst Campus of the University at Buffalo. Its official name is the Youngmann Memorial Highway, but locally,...
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Interstate 290 (abbreviated I-290) runs for 10 miles (16 km) near Buffalo, New York from I-90 to I-190. It connects Buffalo with its northern suburbs of Amherst and Tonawanda, and provides a route to Niagara Falls that bypasses the city of Buffalo. I-290 also connects to Interstate 990, and through this connection, provides access to the Amherst Campus of the University at Buffalo. Its official name is the Youngmann Memorial Highway, but locally, it is referred to as the The Two-Ninety and The Youngmann or, much less frequently, The Power Line Expressway for the high tension power lines that parallel the expressway.
I-290 begins at a semi-directional-T interchange with Interstate 190 within view of the Niagara River in an industrial sector of the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda. The freeway heads east from I-190 into more residential areas of Tonawanda, where it meets NY 384 at a three-quarter cloverleaf interchange. The two missing portions of the cloverleaf, both ramps leading to NY 384...
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