Before and after the Airforce base closed in Plattsburgh.

LEFT - 1995
RIGHT - 2020

Plattsburgh could have had it's very own Lakefront Arterial in front of City Hall had the NYS Public Works Department gotten it's 1947 plan for the city.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu02334372&view=1up&seq=63

This cloverleaf on the north-side of city seems much overscaled, but probably the land was poor and polluted here, and it made sense to provide arterial access to Dannemora and points to the north and west, I guess.