@newyer2198 Is this the City (15k) or Town (72k)? Because of how New York State classifies it’s communities, multiple definitions exist, and they can be drastically different in size. I noticed that this is A LOT worse on Long Island; for example, Hempstead can refer to either a Village of roughly 60k (I assume this is the size usually associated with ‘Hempstead’), or a Town of 800k (Triple the size of Buffalo, ostensibly New York’s second city, almost as big as Newark, Jersey City and Yonkers COMBINED!)
@@newflyer2198 You would be amazed one some of the cities that had teams in the early days of both NFL and NBA. Muncie, Indiana Rock Island, Illinois LaRue, Ohio Waterloo, Iowa (NBA) Sheboygan, Wisconsin (NBA) Pottstown, Pennsylvania
The tolls were very controversial in the 90s. The bonds for I-190 were paid off but the state transfered the maintenance for I-84 to the thruway authority, using the I-190 tolls to fund it. So for about 10 years, the people of Buffalo were paying tolls for a highway that was in the opposite corner of the state.
When you reach I-190 around exit 6, you pass to the north of the General Mills Cheerios/Lucky Charms plant and you can smell the cereal cooking as you pass by.
and if you sit at river walk and have a cold beer on a warm summer afternoon you can enjoy the smell for a few hours. Got to visit Buffalo for the first time in 2022, gorgeous city, wonderful people.
There's a similar experience when taking I-380 through downtown Cedar Rapids, IA. You can smell the oatmeal from the Quaker Oats plant just west of the freeway.
Well so far in the first couple of minutes you show the old Amtrak station downtown . It was razed and replaced with a new one . Please update your information and video. NY taxes us to death but actually built something!
Buffalo has two Amtrak Stations. Buffalo-Depew Stationn and Buffalo-Exchange Street Station . All trains on the Buffalo line serve Depew station and the other station on Exchange Street services the Maple Leaf and Empire Service trains.
Nice coverage of 190, one thing I think you should've done however is shown a view or two of the Niagara waterfalls themselves, then that would've been the cherry on top of the cake. Either way, good video as usual. Go Chiefs! :) 👍
It’s unique how the exit numbers increase going west on the NY State Thruway indeed and how they are still sequential and not based on mileposts. But some of Arizona’s exit numbers on a few of their highways take the cake on having the oddest exit numbering systems.
Cmon Todd the bills stadium lower bowl is built into the ground , all you see pulling up to it is the upper deck. Designed by the same people as Arrowhead.. very similar except for the new buildings with suites that were added later
@MentholPedro71 That is impressive. I haven’t taken any structural engineering classes at college (though I do come a family of engineers), but I’d think that with how brutal winters are in this part of the country, it’d be very difficult to dig up the ground that’s likely frozen several feet deep, and that there’s very little time that said ground isn’t frozen solid…
Don't worry, I've only ever seen 1 or 2 cases where Street View showed a full on border crossing; they were US/CAN crossings, landlocked I recall. Usually, for security, these areas are not available.
The Ambassador Bridge Between Detroit and Windsor has street view, so I think it might just be a New York thing. I checked and indeed all 4 of the Niagara River crossings into Canada lack street view, may be for similar reasons that the George Washington Bridge and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in NYC don't have street view.
I went down I-190 on my trip to Niagara Falls to celebrate my high school graduation last summer, and being able to see Canada from 190 made me wonder if Canada is closer to NC than I thought, or did I really travel that far from North Carolina. I have this memory of me misreading the Ft Erie exit as Ft Erie Canal instead of Canada bc I forgot that it Buffalo sits at the border. We were gonna do Maid of the Mist, but it was already 7PM by the time we got there, since we were at the RnR HOF earlier that day. Sidenote: I'm gonna guess that if the Chiefs end up playing the Ravens, the next video would be I-270. In the football off-season, I wanna see you make videos for US-74 and the Blue Ridge Pkwy.
@andrewdevore4799 Depending on where in North Carolina you are, Buffalo is definitely doable as a day drive. For example, from Charlotte (simplest, as the 77-79-90 route is very straightforward), Google Maps has it at 10 hours. In my part of the country (Northern Nevada), 10 hours can get me to the southernmost points of the Puget Sound (Olympia)…
@elizabethorsillo7187 The irony is that Buffalo apparently is rarely the snowiest city in New York, even with its location on Lake Erie. From what I’ve read, Syracuse is located at the perfect sweet spot to receive lake snow not only from Erie and Ontario, but also the Finger Lakes, as well as possibly remnants of Nor’easters. I’m only 45 minutes away from the country’s biggest alpine lake, and its annual snowfall is comparable to what Upstate New York apparently gets, which, considering the geography, is impressive.
If Buffalo wins you could do a highway in Baltimore or Houston depending on who wins the other game since I'm sure that's who you'd be rooting for in the AFC Championship.
@dvferyance I’m struggling to come up with the third one. There’s this, and 110 El Paso. It can’t be 805 San Diego, as it ends at 5 before the San Ysidro crossing…
@dvferyance I mean that all those highways should be full Interstates on paper, but some quirk exists to deny such a designation. There’s got to be *something* about 905 preventing it from getting federal funding. Countless California highways are like this…
This route is quite simple. Left to right is Northbound Cheektowaga-Buffalo-Tonawanda-Niagara Falls (NY)-St. Catharine’s As a spur route, I am a bit more loose with the controls. But even then, Cheektowaga and Tonawanda are not only home to critical junctions, but they are also among the biggest Towns in the Buffalo area. I say “Towns”, as New York tends to (in some cases) break them down further into villages or hamlets (i.e. the biggest Towns on Long Island). In the case of Cheektowaga, it seems all but two segments belong to the ‘village’, but Tonawanda is unique in that there’s a City of the same name; I’m specifically referring to the Town in my control list. Also, for Niagara Falls (NY), I only have the parentheses to differentiate it from the larger city of the same name in Ontario; this is especially critical at the Queen Elizabeth Way/General Brock Parkway split. As for St. Catharine’s as the control into Canada, let’s just say that I have a rather *blasphemous* observation: not everyone entering Canada here is going to Toronto! I’ve done some research, and not only is the Buffalo-Niagara-Hamilton-Brantford-London-Sarnia/Windsor-Detroit route an hour faster than Buffalo-Erie-Cleveland-Toledo, but it’s also cheaper (the tolls in New York and Ohio add up, possibly also Indiana depending on the final destination…). Plus, even if I ignore my reduced standards for ‘major Canadian cities’, St. Catharine’s is still a big city. Even if this irks *Todd Almighty, His Will Be Done, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.*
@ControlCityFreak Unless I indicate otherwise, I intend for the first and last entries to only be signed if reading in the direction of said entry (St. Catharine’s only applies for reading left to right, and Cheektowaga only for right to left). If I never made this format clear, then my bad.
Suggestion for the playoffs: You could take requests for both roads, with the second road's video (for the team the Chiefs didn't play) the week after the Super Bowl (or later if you do a road for the SB champion).
I have dear friends who live in Buffalo. I always remember the crazy Bill's fans who set up on the top of the stadium, shirtless in brutality cold weather. Once I was watching a Monday Night game on ABC. The Bill's were playing the Jets. Kind of a boring game. So they panned up to show the famous frozen fans up by the fence. Only to pull away quickly. Some of the shirtless fans were girls.😂
@jollyjohnthepirate3168 Sounds like a sure fire way to get yourself killed. In fact, 15 years ago, there was this show called 1000 Ways to Die; one such way portrayed went down the exact same: a shirtless fanatic during an Arctic front…
I'm doing the complete opposite of this. Instead of doing week-by-week playoffs, I'm doing the team that *Wins* Superbowl 58. Here are the Highways that I have for the 8 teams that are left: - KC: US 71 (KC to Canada) - BUF: NY 33 - HOU: I-610 - BAL: I-695 (Just did a video on I-295/DC 295/MD 295, so why not I-695) - DET: US 12 (MI) - TB: US 92 - SF: I-280 (CAL) - GB: US 141
If we win, then next week should be: - I-695 (the Baltimore Beltway) if we’re playing the Ravens - I-610 (the Houston Loop) if we’re playing the Texans
Didn’t 190 once have their exits with an “N” prefix (short for “Niagara Section”) at one point? I thought I saw some photo of a sign for “Exit N5” from back in the 80’s.
@davisfreesefan23 Are you sure it wasn’t reversed (5N)? I’m currently watching a drive lapse video of the Hutchinson Parkway/CT 15, and I’ve seen cloverleaf interchanges that have E/W or N/S suffixes depending on the direction the ramp takes you. This seems to be common in the Northeastern States.
Agree with most of the control cities used here with the exemption of Canada and Lewiston when in or North of Niagara Falls, NY. These could be replaced with Niagara Falls, Canada or even St. Catherine’s, Canada. Also, the massive failure of the Bills stadium during the winter storm last week definitely means that it should be replaced sooner rather than later.
2026 is when the new Highmark Stadium will be ready, directly across Abbott Rd. from the old stadium. It will have far more canopy cover (still an outdoor facility) and convert to natural grass. Will hold approx 60k Bills Mafia.
@@tylermarchand2996 No, bc the seating areas will be covered but NOT the playing field. Too much danger of collapse a la the Metrodome if the place was fully indoors. Orchard Park, in a traditional snow belt, gets feet of snow instead of inches.
As per usual for these city-based videos, I thought I’d look at musical acts from Buffalo (Anything in Erie and Niagara Counties, but in this case, everything was from the city itself). Goo Goo Dolls Rick James Spyro Grya Green Jelly Lemuria Cannibal Corpse Snapcase moe. Personally, I’ve only heard of three of these acts. I think two are obvious, but the only reason I know of the last of these three is because they did a heavy metal cover of a NURSERY STORY, and it actually became a HIT!!
Snapcase leads off the episode. I’m pretty sure I saw them at some point, but I saw a whole lot of punk/hardcore bands in the mid to late 90s so not 100% sure.
I obviously wasn’t going to get EVERY single act. I got these names off of a quiz on Sporcle that’s part of a setlist by state (although it splits New York into two separate quizzes: the five boroughs for NYC and everywhere else for NYS). I’d actually known for a while about where GGD and Rick James were from. The only other act that I recognized that I found out was from Buffalo was that group who made a heavy metal version of Three Little Pigs…
@@tylermarchand2996 fun fact, Green Jello is still around. In fact, my friend's relative plays in the band. Also, I only live a few blocks from the singer of Snapcase.
@spellcast1391 Depends on where, though. At the QEW/GBP (405), Buffalo-bound traffic is better served staying on the QEW, plus this split differentiates between the two Niagara Falls’s (the NY side is apparently quieter, and doesn’t have the overcrowded Vegas-feel of the ON side)
Nice to know you think highly of your backyard, but I wasn’t alluding to the Rust Belt stereotypes at all. I just meant that the New York side is *probably* peaceful relative to the madness of the Ontario side. This is the best example I can come up with: I’m four hours away from Yosemite Valley. The most popular spot is an overlook some 3000 feet above the valley floor that has head on views of the Falls and the symbol of the park, Half Dome. As this spot is accessible by car, it’s ridiculously crowded. The various views from the five mile long trail leading to this overlook from the valley floor? Not so much. It’s a lot of work, but it makes you earn the reward, and it’s (in my opinion) a TRUE Yosemite experience.
@@tylermarchand2996 I wish the NY side was better than it is. However, there are serious issues with crime, blight, pollution, and corruption in the city. Plus, there are many parts of the city that are still dealing with the radioactive effects of the Manhattan Project.
11:44 Rich turned Ralph Wilson turned Highmark stadium is not that bad. Foxboro Stadium was a lot worse. Steel benches instead of actual seats, the lowest capacity of all NFL stadiums, and on January 12, 1997 - a power failure during the AFC Championship game vs. the Jaguars. But the last game ever played there was the Tuck Rule game, and the rest is history. The Patriots' dynasty may be over, but the Chiefs have the potential to be the next one. But they have a tough test ahead of them - it's their first "real" road game against the Bills since 2014.
@Ramiestar Lowest capacity? From what Dr. Wikipedia tells me, Tom Benson Hall of Fame Field in Canton is the smallest at 23k. If you want to split hairs, the smallest *home* field is FedEx Field in Prince George’s County, Maryland at 58k. Gillette Stadium looks to be middle of the pack with 67k, with Highmark towards the higher tier with 72k.
If the one I already made gets 10k-15k more views, I’ll think about making a second one. Every highway in Mexico probably isn’t happening ever unless the vids just start doing huge numbers.
@MostInterestingChannel There are several 280s: Newark, Toledo, Davenport and the one closest to me, San Francisco/San Jose. However, for that one, it'd need to be combined with 680 (San Jose/Fairfield) for a "complete experience".
I was in that area a few years ago. Looks sad, depressing and run down. The Canada side was 100% better than Buffalo, like night and day once you cross the border. 👍
@PSTXFL Urban decay is real. However, even in the Rust Belt, nice areas can be found. During my 2021 summer road trip across America, one of my rest stops was North Ridgeville, 20 minutes SW of Downtown Cleveland. I am fully aware of the stereotypes about Cleveland, but the neighborhoods in this area looked REALLY nice.
@@tylermarchand2996 we’ve visited some beautiful areas of Ohio, especially like their Amish country. We also really like the Catskills region of NY State and up around Lake Champlain. But western NY cities like Buffalo and Rochester have a different vibe, like their glory days of prosperity are over.
@@MentholPedro71 pointing out that a certain location doesn't belong on a particular sign isn't talking negative about it. I live in the area and Lewiston should not be a control city.
Fun fact: Tonawanda used to have a NFL team... that only played ONE game before folding.
Who can forget about the Tonawanda Kardex?
@newyer2198 Is this the City (15k) or Town (72k)? Because of how New York State classifies it’s communities, multiple definitions exist, and they can be drastically different in size. I noticed that this is A LOT worse on Long Island; for example, Hempstead can refer to either a Village of roughly 60k (I assume this is the size usually associated with ‘Hempstead’), or a Town of 800k (Triple the size of Buffalo, ostensibly New York’s second city, almost as big as Newark, Jersey City and Yonkers COMBINED!)
@@tylermarchand2996it is the city itself. I was quite surprised that they had an NFL team considering how small it's population is.
Heheheh. A fellow history nerd... I posted the same fact on the Patreon release. 😂
@@newflyer2198 You would be amazed one some of the cities that had teams in the early days of both NFL and NBA.
Muncie, Indiana
Rock Island, Illinois
LaRue, Ohio
Waterloo, Iowa (NBA)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin (NBA)
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
The tolls were very controversial in the 90s. The bonds for I-190 were paid off but the state transfered the maintenance for I-84 to the thruway authority, using the I-190 tolls to fund it.
So for about 10 years, the people of Buffalo were paying tolls for a highway that was in the opposite corner of the state.
When you reach I-190 around exit 6, you pass to the north of the General Mills Cheerios/Lucky Charms plant and you can smell the cereal cooking as you pass by.
and if you sit at river walk and have a cold beer on a warm summer afternoon you can enjoy the smell for a few hours.
Got to visit Buffalo for the first time in 2022, gorgeous city, wonderful people.
Sounds awesome!
There's a similar experience when taking I-380 through downtown Cedar Rapids, IA. You can smell the oatmeal from the Quaker Oats plant just west of the freeway.
Our city smells like Cheerios are very popular t shirts in Buffalo
They rebuilt the Amtrak station since then and they have a larger one in Depew too
“Minor league park”
Let’s not forget the fact that the Blue Jays called it home during COVID.
Wow this video brought back memories from college. Haven’t been in this part of America in 15 years 😮
I was on that road probably almost 20 years ago one I want to Niagara Falls with my parents. Back in 2004. But it was like September.
The tolls on 190 were removed sometime after 2005, not sure of the exact year.
Well so far in the first couple of minutes you show the old Amtrak station downtown . It was razed and replaced with a new one . Please update your information and video. NY taxes us to death but actually built something!
All I got is what Street View has. Google’s behind on it
There is a wooden rollercoaster at the park.
And now a steel wild mouse next to the ferris wheel
Buffalo has two Amtrak Stations.
Buffalo-Depew Stationn and Buffalo-Exchange Street Station . All trains on the Buffalo line serve Depew station and the other station on Exchange Street services the Maple Leaf and Empire Service trains.
Exit 1 is in Yonkers
Nice coverage of 190, one thing I think you should've done however is shown a view or two of the Niagara waterfalls themselves, then that would've been the cherry on top of the cake. Either way, good video as usual. Go Chiefs! :) 👍
I thought about it, but ther road doesn’t come that close, plus the Canadian side is better anyway.
@@ControlCityFreak Maybe some day you could revisit Niagara Falls but on the Canadian side?
@@drivingbritt9617 I still haven’t been in real life. I should work on that first lol
Great video! I love the Anchor Bar in Buffalo!!! Classic!!
It’s unique how the exit numbers increase going west on the NY State Thruway indeed and how they are still sequential and not based on mileposts. But some of Arizona’s exit numbers on a few of their highways take the cake on having the oddest exit numbering systems.
Yeah I-17 is super weird.
Cmon Todd the bills stadium lower bowl is built into the ground , all you see pulling up to it is the upper deck. Designed by the same people as Arrowhead.. very similar except for the new buildings with suites that were added later
@MentholPedro71 That is impressive. I haven’t taken any structural engineering classes at college (though I do come a family of engineers), but I’d think that with how brutal winters are in this part of the country, it’d be very difficult to dig up the ground that’s likely frozen several feet deep, and that there’s very little time that said ground isn’t frozen solid…
@@tylermarchand2996frost line is @3 feet down. You want a brutal winter go to the Rockies . Want see something even more impressive I’ll unzip my fly
Good stuff Todd. I hope you’re doing well.
Thanks!
Don't worry, I've only ever seen 1 or 2 cases where Street View showed a full on border crossing; they were US/CAN crossings, landlocked I recall. Usually, for security, these areas are not available.
The Ambassador Bridge Between Detroit and Windsor has street view, so I think it might just be a New York thing. I checked and indeed all 4 of the Niagara River crossings into Canada lack street view, may be for similar reasons that the George Washington Bridge and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in NYC don't have street view.
Definitely check out the Anchor Bar!
I went down I-190 on my trip to Niagara Falls to celebrate my high school graduation last summer, and being able to see Canada from 190 made me wonder if Canada is closer to NC than I thought, or did I really travel that far from North Carolina. I have this memory of me misreading the Ft Erie exit as Ft Erie Canal instead of Canada bc I forgot that it Buffalo sits at the border. We were gonna do Maid of the Mist, but it was already 7PM by the time we got there, since we were at the RnR HOF earlier that day.
Sidenote: I'm gonna guess that if the Chiefs end up playing the Ravens, the next video would be I-270.
In the football off-season, I wanna see you make videos for US-74 and the Blue Ridge Pkwy.
@andrewdevore4799 Depending on where in North Carolina you are, Buffalo is definitely doable as a day drive. For example, from Charlotte (simplest, as the 77-79-90 route is very straightforward), Google Maps has it at 10 hours.
In my part of the country (Northern Nevada), 10 hours can get me to the southernmost points of the Puget Sound (Olympia)…
@@tylermarchand2996 asheville
Looks like the Peace Bridge actually turns into the QEW once it crosses into Canada..
4:04 i thought Grand Island was on I80 (didn't realize that NY had a G.I )
@TheSharkKing45 And I thought Buffalo was in Wyoming.
I 190 kind of hugs the Niagra River between Buffalo and Niagra falls..
My interstate hero! Have you heard of Waldron, Kansas?
No
@@ControlCityFreak Population 10!!!
Looking forward to the US 20 video... It actually goes through where I grew up in Cazenovia NY..
@tomtbi Just looked it up. It’s apparently a liberal arts town near Syracuse, and was home to Worst Cook in America, Anne Burrell!
The only 190 I know is the one that goes into ORD.
I don’t recognize Highmark Stadium without it being buried in a mountain of snow! 🌨️❄️☃️😂
@elizabethorsillo7187 The irony is that Buffalo apparently is rarely the snowiest city in New York, even with its location on Lake Erie.
From what I’ve read, Syracuse is located at the perfect sweet spot to receive lake snow not only from Erie and Ontario, but also the Finger Lakes, as well as possibly remnants of Nor’easters.
I’m only 45 minutes away from the country’s biggest alpine lake, and its annual snowfall is comparable to what Upstate New York apparently gets, which, considering the geography, is impressive.
There is a GoKart track in Niagara Falls Ontario that's based on the SNES version of Mario Kart
Oh that sounds awesome!
In this video you can find SABAH office on Niagara Street over looking 190
Here’s Speedboy14’s the way it should be for I-190
Northbound: Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto
Southbound: Buffalo, Erie
I have been on I-190 both ways
Buffalo bills are one my back up teams, so go bills
3:50 New York State uses Clearview?
If Buffalo wins you could do a highway in Baltimore or Houston depending on who wins the other game since I'm sure that's who you'd be rooting for in the AFC Championship.
Houston can’t host the AFC championship game, not gonna be Houston.
I 190 is one of three 3 di that reach an international border and the only one that touches Canada.
@dvferyance I’m struggling to come up with the third one. There’s this, and 110 El Paso. It can’t be 805 San Diego, as it ends at 5 before the San Ysidro crossing…
@@tylermarchand2996 you were close it's 905 just east of 805.
@dvferyance Does that even really count, though? It’s one of those hand-waiving examples like 15, 110 and 210…
@@tylermarchand2996 not sure what you mean.
@dvferyance I mean that all those highways should be full Interstates on paper, but some quirk exists to deny such a designation. There’s got to be *something* about 905 preventing it from getting federal funding. Countless California highways are like this…
This route is quite simple. Left to right is Northbound
Cheektowaga-Buffalo-Tonawanda-Niagara Falls (NY)-St. Catharine’s
As a spur route, I am a bit more loose with the controls. But even then, Cheektowaga and Tonawanda are not only home to critical junctions, but they are also among the biggest Towns in the Buffalo area. I say “Towns”, as New York tends to (in some cases) break them down further into villages or hamlets (i.e. the biggest Towns on Long Island). In the case of Cheektowaga, it seems all but two segments belong to the ‘village’, but Tonawanda is unique in that there’s a City of the same name; I’m specifically referring to the Town in my control list. Also, for Niagara Falls (NY), I only have the parentheses to differentiate it from the larger city of the same name in Ontario; this is especially critical at the Queen Elizabeth Way/General Brock Parkway split.
As for St. Catharine’s as the control into Canada, let’s just say that I have a rather *blasphemous* observation: not everyone entering Canada here is going to Toronto! I’ve done some research, and not only is the Buffalo-Niagara-Hamilton-Brantford-London-Sarnia/Windsor-Detroit route an hour faster than Buffalo-Erie-Cleveland-Toledo, but it’s also cheaper (the tolls in New York and Ohio add up, possibly also Indiana depending on the final destination…). Plus, even if I ignore my reduced standards for ‘major Canadian cities’, St. Catharine’s is still a big city. Even if this irks *Todd Almighty, His Will Be Done, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.*
Wait, you wouldn’t sign Buffalo from the jump at 90? It’s literally the reason the road exist.
@ControlCityFreak Unless I indicate otherwise, I intend for the first and last entries to only be signed if reading in the direction of said entry (St. Catharine’s only applies for reading left to right, and Cheektowaga only for right to left). If I never made this format clear, then my bad.
Ah gotcha
Suggestion for the playoffs: You could take requests for both roads, with the second road's video (for the team the Chiefs didn't play) the week after the Super Bowl (or later if you do a road for the SB champion).
Doing Florida’s Turnpike for the week after. Pro Bowl.
I have dear friends who live in Buffalo. I always remember the crazy Bill's fans who set up on the top of the stadium, shirtless in brutality cold weather. Once I was watching a Monday Night game on ABC. The Bill's were playing the Jets. Kind of a boring game. So they panned up to show the famous frozen fans up by the fence. Only to pull away quickly. Some of the shirtless fans were girls.😂
Haha!
@jollyjohnthepirate3168 Sounds like a sure fire way to get yourself killed. In fact, 15 years ago, there was this show called 1000 Ways to Die; one such way portrayed went down the exact same: a shirtless fanatic during an Arctic front…
I'm doing the complete opposite of this. Instead of doing week-by-week playoffs, I'm doing the team that *Wins* Superbowl 58. Here are the Highways that I have for the 8 teams that are left:
- KC: US 71 (KC to Canada)
- BUF: NY 33
- HOU: I-610
- BAL: I-695 (Just did a video on I-295/DC 295/MD 295, so why not I-695)
- DET: US 12 (MI)
- TB: US 92
- SF: I-280 (CAL)
- GB: US 141
Off we’re gonna shuffle, shuffle off to Buffalo…and hopefully win!
Yay my home city
If we win, then next week should be:
- I-695 (the Baltimore Beltway) if we’re playing the Ravens
- I-610 (the Houston Loop) if we’re playing the Texans
Doing a KC road if it’s at Arrowhead.
@@ControlCityFreak That works too!
@davidfreesefan23 There’s one tiny problem with calling 610 *The* Houston Loop; Houston has *three!*
@@ControlCityFreak If it's Chiefs vs. Ravens, do I-895 instead of I-695. Shorter road. Easier to do a video in a short amount of time.
@@GreenBean-fp4kzI pretty much covered all of 895 in the 97 video.
Didn’t 190 once have their exits with an “N” prefix (short for “Niagara Section”) at one point? I thought I saw some photo of a sign for “Exit N5” from back in the 80’s.
@davisfreesefan23 Are you sure it wasn’t reversed (5N)? I’m currently watching a drive lapse video of the Hutchinson Parkway/CT 15, and I’ve seen cloverleaf interchanges that have E/W or N/S suffixes depending on the direction the ramp takes you. This seems to be common in the Northeastern States.
I remember seeing exits "N1", "N2", etc. on a Rand McNally road map in the 90s. Surprisingly I-90 near the MA border still uses B1, B2, and B3.
@@Ramiestaryeah, they still do to differentiate from the Mainline and Berkshire sections.
Yeah, they used to have them on their signs and I think the exit numbers reset once the road crossed into NYSDOT jurisdiction, similar to I-87.
You’re right. I do remember the B Exits along I 90 through Columbia County (Van Buren Country)…
Took this road on my honeymoon in 2021. We weren’t allowed to enter Canada yet tho due to Covid restrictions :(
Bummer.
Happy Thursday!
You too!!
Agree with most of the control cities used here with the exemption of Canada and Lewiston when in or North of Niagara Falls, NY. These could be replaced with Niagara Falls, Canada or even St. Catherine’s, Canada.
Also, the massive failure of the Bills stadium during the winter storm last week definitely means that it should be replaced sooner rather than later.
2026 is when the new Highmark Stadium will be ready, directly across Abbott Rd. from the old stadium.
It will have far more canopy cover (still an outdoor facility) and convert to natural grass. Will hold approx 60k Bills Mafia.
@gregorywright3012 Canopy cover? Isn’t this an invitation for a repeat of what happened to US Bank 15 years or so ago?
@@tylermarchand2996 No, bc the seating areas will be covered but NOT the playing field. Too much danger of collapse a la the Metrodome if the place was fully indoors. Orchard Park, in a traditional snow belt, gets feet of snow instead of inches.
You should’ve gotten a picture of Highmark Stadium with the banner saying Taylor Swift and the Chiefs stink!!!!😂😂😂
At Arrowhead we just have banners for championships 😎
Buffalo Shuffalo?
As per usual for these city-based videos, I thought I’d look at musical acts from Buffalo (Anything in Erie and Niagara Counties, but in this case, everything was from the city itself).
Goo Goo Dolls
Rick James
Spyro Grya
Green Jelly
Lemuria
Cannibal Corpse
Snapcase
moe.
Personally, I’ve only heard of three of these acts. I think two are obvious, but the only reason I know of the last of these three is because they did a heavy metal cover of a NURSERY STORY, and it actually became a HIT!!
Snapcase leads off the episode. I’m pretty sure I saw them at some point, but I saw a whole lot of punk/hardcore bands in the mid to late 90s so not 100% sure.
You left out Every Time I Die.
I obviously wasn’t going to get EVERY single act. I got these names off of a quiz on Sporcle that’s part of a setlist by state (although it splits New York into two separate quizzes: the five boroughs for NYC and everywhere else for NYS). I’d actually known for a while about where GGD and Rick James were from. The only other act that I recognized that I found out was from Buffalo was that group who made a heavy metal version of Three Little Pigs…
@@tylermarchand2996 fun fact, Green Jello is still around. In fact, my friend's relative plays in the band.
Also, I only live a few blocks from the singer of Snapcase.
I don’t know whether or not these connections are impressive or creepy…
Niagara Falls works as a secondary on Southbound 190. “Niagara Falls/Buffalo” is what it should be from Canada. When picking one, ONLY Buffalo.
Agreed.
@spellcast1391 Depends on where, though. At the QEW/GBP (405), Buffalo-bound traffic is better served staying on the QEW, plus this split differentiates between the two Niagara Falls’s (the NY side is apparently quieter, and doesn’t have the overcrowded Vegas-feel of the ON side)
@@tylermarchand2996 yeah, the NY side is a dump once you get away from the falls and the river.
Nice to know you think highly of your backyard, but I wasn’t alluding to the Rust Belt stereotypes at all. I just meant that the New York side is *probably* peaceful relative to the madness of the Ontario side.
This is the best example I can come up with: I’m four hours away from Yosemite Valley. The most popular spot is an overlook some 3000 feet above the valley floor that has head on views of the Falls and the symbol of the park, Half Dome. As this spot is accessible by car, it’s ridiculously crowded. The various views from the five mile long trail leading to this overlook from the valley floor? Not so much. It’s a lot of work, but it makes you earn the reward, and it’s (in my opinion) a TRUE Yosemite experience.
@@tylermarchand2996 I wish the NY side was better than it is. However, there are serious issues with crime, blight, pollution, and corruption in the city. Plus, there are many parts of the city that are still dealing with the radioactive effects of the Manhattan Project.
As a nascar fan, you should do an I-4 reboot for the Daytona 500
@andrewdevore4799 Already done!
@@tylermarchand2996 I said "reboot"
Reboot is already done. I’m not going to re-reboot I 4 lol.
@@ControlCityFreak then us 92, I would also love to see a Blue Ridge Parkway video
Because I want to see the outer loop of 435, GO CHIEFS!!
You can see it now! Made a vid on it a few weeks ago.
@@ControlCityFreak I thought you did the inner loop
@@benjaminchandler7919 Oh yeah true. Sorry misread that.
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11:44 Rich turned Ralph Wilson turned Highmark stadium is not that bad. Foxboro Stadium was a lot worse. Steel benches instead of actual seats, the lowest capacity of all NFL stadiums, and on January 12, 1997 - a power failure during the AFC Championship game vs. the Jaguars. But the last game ever played there was the Tuck Rule game, and the rest is history.
The Patriots' dynasty may be over, but the Chiefs have the potential to be the next one. But they have a tough test ahead of them - it's their first "real" road game against the Bills since 2014.
I meant New Foxboro Stadium, but I guess the location is the same regardless
@Ramiestar Lowest capacity? From what Dr. Wikipedia tells me, Tom Benson Hall of Fame Field in Canton is the smallest at 23k. If you want to split hairs, the smallest *home* field is FedEx Field in Prince George’s County, Maryland at 58k. Gillette Stadium looks to be middle of the pack with 67k, with Highmark towards the higher tier with 72k.
@@tylermarchand2996 I was referring to the old Foxboro Stadium, which was demolished after the 2001 season.
please do a mexico highway sieres!
@MostInterestingChannel He's already done MX 1 (Tijuana--Cabo San Lucas).
I mean MX-2 to MX-100
MX-180 as well
If the one I already made gets 10k-15k more views, I’ll think about making a second one. Every highway in Mexico probably isn’t happening ever unless the vids just start doing huge numbers.
please do I-280!
@MostInterestingChannel There are several 280s: Newark, Toledo, Davenport and the one closest to me, San Francisco/San Jose. However, for that one, it'd need to be combined with 680 (San Jose/Fairfield) for a "complete experience".
yep, i mean all, especially the san Jose/Fairfield one
I was in that area a few years ago. Looks sad, depressing and run down. The Canada side was 100% better than Buffalo, like night and day once you cross the border.
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@PSTXFL Urban decay is real. However, even in the Rust Belt, nice areas can be found. During my 2021 summer road trip across America, one of my rest stops was North Ridgeville, 20 minutes SW of Downtown Cleveland. I am fully aware of the stereotypes about Cleveland, but the neighborhoods in this area looked REALLY nice.
@@tylermarchand2996 we’ve visited some beautiful areas of Ohio, especially like their Amish country.
We also really like the Catskills region of NY State and up around Lake Champlain.
But western NY cities like Buffalo and Rochester have a different vibe, like their glory days of prosperity are over.
You could do I 695 if Baltimore wins...
Or either I 290 and or US 219 if it is Buffalo vs Baltimore or Buffalo vs Houston..
Complained about sign to Lewiston? Really? Never heard of Artpark or the peach festival, Niagara University, great restaurants, views of the gorge etc
Those really only attract the locals though.
I’ve never been to the region, so no, I’m not aware of any local festivals.
@@ControlCityFreakthen don’t talk negative about it then
@@MentholPedro71 pointing out that a certain location doesn't belong on a particular sign isn't talking negative about it. I live in the area and Lewiston should not be a control city.