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Prior to the gaining of federal funding for the Interstate System in the late 1950s, a toll road, the Acadian Thruway, had been proposed between Lafayette and a point near Gramercy on Airline Highway (US 61). This would have provided a shorter route than I-10, bypassing Baton Rouge to the south.
I-10 remains closed in both directions in Louisiana from the Texas state line to around Baton Rouge, according to the state's road conditions map. Portions of Interstate 55 are also shut down ...
The Interstate Highway System in Louisiana consists of 933.84 miles (1,502.87 km) [4] of freeways constructed and maintained by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (La DOTD). The system was authorized on June 29, 1956 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 . [ 1 ]
Louisiana Highway 10 Spur (LA 10 Spur) runs 0.83 miles (1.34 km) in an east–west direction from a local road in Greensburg to a junction with LA 10 just east of the corporate limits. [21] [65] It is a remnant of the original route of LA 10 through Greensburg. [17] [34] LA 10 Spur is an undivided two-lane highway for its entire length. [65]
The death toll from last week’s series of highway crashes blamed on a “super fog” of smoke from marsh fires mixed with dense fog has been lowered from eight to seven people, according to ...
The toll from a series of crashes on a Louisiana interstate rose to eight dead and 63 injured Tuesday evening, a day after a “super fog” of marsh fire smoke and dense fog snared more than 160 ...
A Louisiana Highway Department gravel truck driver pauses in front of his orange-colored vehicle (1972). The new Louisiana Constitution of 1976 (adopted in 1974) and Act 83 of 1977 abolished the Departments of Highways and Public Works and restructured them into the Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), thereby encompassing related activities such as highways, public works ...
Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System of the United States. It is the fourth-longest Interstate in the country at 2,460.34 miles (3,959.53 km), following I-90, I-80, and I-40. It was part of the originally planned Interstate Highway network that was laid out in 1956, and its last ...