Editing Interstate 90 (section)

===Non-tolled construction===
[[File:I 90 Montana Construction sign.png|thumb|right|Construction sign on a section of I-90 in Montana|alt=Black-and-white photograph of a sign with the I-90 shield announcing "Interstate Highway Construction Next 12 Miles" with a recommended speed limit of 35 miles per hour.]]

The freeway also incorporated other non-tolled expressway bypasses planned by state governments in the early 1950s and modified to meet Interstate standards. A bypass of Spokane Valley, Washington, opened in November 1956 as the first section in Washington and was extended into neighboring Spokane two years later.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dieffenbach |first=Al |date=November 16, 1961 |title=Freeway is Five: Traffic Benefits Are Listed |page=1 |work=[[Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89848854/freeway-is-five-traffic-benefits-are/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201094407/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89848854/freeway-is-five-traffic-benefits-are/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Wisconsin opened their first section in November 1959, connecting the terminus of the Illinois Tollway with Janesville,<ref>{{cite news |last=Foust |first=Hal |date=November 25, 1959 |title=Opens 18 Miles of Interstate Expressway |at=sec. 1, p. 8 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956670/opens-18-miles-of-interstate-expressway/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203102613/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956670/opens-18-miles-of-interstate-expressway/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and extended the freeway through the Madison area to Wisconsin Dells in 1962.<ref>{{cite news |last=Foust |first=Hal |date=November 3, 1962 |title=Expressway From Chicago to Dells Open |at=sec. 1, p. 16 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956704/expressway-from-chicago-to-dells-open/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203102847/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956704/expressway-from-chicago-to-dells-open/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Cleveland Innerbelt opened in stages from 1959 to 1962 and was originally planned to connect with the [[Parma Freeway]], which would have carried I-90 around the northwest side of [[Downtown Cleveland]]. It was later cancelled in the 1960s amid [[Freeway revolt|public opposition]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |date=May 11, 2018 |title=Innerbelt Freeway |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/i/innerbelt-freeway |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Cleveland History]] |publisher=[[Case Western Reserve University]] |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204093234/https://case.edu/ech/articles/i/innerbelt-freeway |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Grant |first=Alison |date=May 6, 2015 |title=Big Creek bike-pedestrian greenway eyed for vicinity of abandoned 'Parma Freeway' |url=https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2015/05/big_creek_bike-pedestrian_gree.html |work=The Plain Dealer |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210033137/https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2015/05/big_creek_bike-pedestrian_gree.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The first Minnesota section, built to bypass Austin, began construction in 1957 and opened in 1961.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 2, 1957 |title=Road Construction Near Austin Part of East-West Belt Route |page=6B |work=The Minneapolis Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90281922/road-construction-near-austin-part-of/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233353/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90281922/road-construction-near-austin-part-of/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 9, 1961 |title=Beltline at Austin Opened |page=10 |work=[[Winona Daily News]] |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956300/beltline-at-austin-opened/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203092821/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956300/beltline-at-austin-opened/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Wisconsin]] was among the first states to complete its rural Interstate system and opened its final section of I-90, from La Crosse to Tomah, in November 1969.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 22, 2009 |title=I-94 segment observes 50th anniversary |url=https://www.republicaneagle.com/news/i-94-segment-observes-50th-anniversary/article_c2b87d1b-b474-5d7c-b857-88f4ca6455ac.html |work=[[Red Wing Republican Eagle]] |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233353/https://www.republicaneagle.com/news/i-94-segment-observes-50th-anniversary/article_c2b87d1b-b474-5d7c-b857-88f4ca6455ac.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Wolski |first=Wayne |date=November 4, 1969 |title=I-90 Rites Open 4-Laner To Area |page=1 |work=La Crosse Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956768/i-90-rites-open-4-laner-to-area/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203102938/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956768/i-90-rites-open-4-laner-to-area/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The section around Albany, New York, built as a toll-free alternative to the New York Thruway, was completed in 1976 with a connection to the Berkshire Connector, which had been originally intended to carry the I-90 designation across the Hudson River.<ref>{{cite web |year=1977 |title=New York State Department of Transportation Annual Report, 1976 |page=7 |url=https://nysl.ptfs.com/data/Library1/Library1/pdf/1760149_1976.pdf |publisher=[[New York State Department of Transportation]] |via=[[New York State Library]] |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233354/https://nysl.ptfs.com/aw-server/rest/product/purl/NYSL/s/ba9fa552-d3d2-4ebe-889d-367b1a1adfbb |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=O'Brien |first=Tim |date=March 25, 2010 |title=Thruway connector's name spurs question |url=http://blog.timesunion.com/gettingthere/thruway-connectors-name-spurs-question/697/ |work=Times Union |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213195904/http://blog.timesunion.com/gettingthere/thruway-connectors-name-spurs-question/697/ |archive-date=February 13, 2016 |accessdate=December 9, 2021}}</ref> South Dakota completed its final section in November 1976, which created an unbroken stretch of four-lane highway from the Wyoming state line to Boston but some intersections remained.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 19, 1976 |title=I-90 ceremony to be held near Spearfish |page=5 |work=[[Mitchell Daily Republic]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956130/i-90-ceremony-to-be-held-near-spearfish/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203092825/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956130/i-90-ceremony-to-be-held-near-spearfish/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Minnesota segment of I-90 was declared complete in September 1978 with a dedication at Blue Earth, where a golden line was painted to emulate the [[golden spike]] of the [[first transcontinental railroad]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Coleman |first=Nick |date=September 24, 1978 |title=Blue Earth puts Golden Spike in Interstate 90 |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956184/blue-earth-puts-golden-spike-in/ 1A], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956211/blue-earth-puts-golden-spike-in/ 16A] |work=[[Minneapolis Tribune]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956184/blue-earth-puts-golden-spike-in/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203092818/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956184/blue-earth-puts-golden-spike-in/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Two months later, Ohio finished its last section west of Cleveland.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hosie |first=Ron |date=November 4, 1978 |title=Heckler draws retort from Rhodes |page=3 |work=[[Dayton Daily News]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90008915/heckler-draws-retort-from-rhodes/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233912/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90008915/heckler-draws-retort-from-rhodes/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The western states were the last to complete their segments of I-90. Wyoming opened its final section, from the Montana state line to Sheridan, in July 1985 and dedicated it three months later following the completion of Montana's cross-border section.<ref>{{cite news |last=Thackeray |first=Lorna |date=October 10, 1985 |title=Governors plan Interstate 90 christening |page=2B |work=[[The Billings Gazette]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90333934/governors-plan-interstate-90-christening/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210064837/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90333934/governors-plan-interstate-90-christening/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The last two-lane section in Montana, near [[Springdale, Montana|Springdale]], was widened to four lanes in May 1987.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 14, 1987 |title=I-90 finally done |page=9A |work=Great Falls Tribune |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956022/i-90-finally-done/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233910/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89956022/i-90-finally-done/ |url-status=live }}</ref><!-- several sections in Montana remained an undivided highway until reconstruction in the 1990s.{{cn|date=December 2021}}--> One of the last rural sections of I-90 to be built was through [[Wallace, Idaho]], which placed its downtown on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1976 to prevent its demolition for the freeway. The {{convert|1.5|mi|km|adj=mid}} elevated freeway bypassed Wallace to the north and cost $42&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US-GDP|42|1991}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation-year|US-GDP}} dollars){{inflation-fn|US-GDP}} to construct. It opened on September 5, 1991, and the city ceremonially retired the last [[traffic signal|stoplight]] on I-90 a week later.<ref>{{cite news |last=Devlin |first=Sherry |date=September 8, 1991 |title=No Stopping Now |page=E1 |work=The Missoulian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90334418/no-stopping-now/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210064843/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90334418/no-stopping-now/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Free |first=Cathy |date=September 15, 1991 |title=Engineer pleased with his Wallace freeway 'work of art' |page=B3 |work=The Spokesman-Review |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89735440/engineer-pleased-with-his-wallace/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=November 28, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009233910/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89735440/engineer-pleased-with-his-wallace/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Idaho section was declared fully complete in July 1992 after the Veterans Memorial Centennial Bridge opened near Coeur d'Alene.<ref>{{cite news |last=Foster |first=J. Todd |date=July 4, 1992 |title=New I-90 stretch offers scenery, safety |page=A1 |work=The Spokesman-Review |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84197254/new-i-90-stretch-offers-scenery-safety/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=December 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210064835/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84197254/new-i-90-stretch-offers-scenery-safety/ |url-status=live }}</ref>