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The Earhart Expressway, named for former New Orleans Commissioner of Public Utilities, Fred A. Earhart, [1] is a state highway located in both Jefferson Parish and Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It is also designated as Louisiana Highway 3139 (LA 3139), spanning a total of 5.2 miles (8.4 km). Although it is an odd-numbered highway and is bannered ...
US 90 (Jefferson Highway, Huey P. Long Bridge) – New Orleans, Westbank LA 48 west (Jefferson Highway) Interchange; Huey P. Long Bridge across Mississippi River on the southeast: 1.2: 1.9: LA 3139 (Earhart Expressway) – Harahan, New Orleans: Interchange: Metairie: 1.8: 2.9: US 61 (Airline Drive) – Kenner, New Orleans: 3.8: 6.1: I-10 ...
Construction began in 1974 on a four-lane bypass of Hickory Avenue that would include a railroad overpass and an interchange with the future Earhart Expressway. The new alignment, Dickory Avenue, opened in December 1975 and extended from Citrus Road to Airline Highway (now Airline Drive).
LA 3046 began as part of the Greater New Orleans Expressway, a 1950s project to transform the century-old Harlem Avenue right-of-way into a multilane highway connecting U.S. 90 (Jefferson Highway), U.S. 61 (Airline Highway, now Drive), and Veterans Memorial Highway (now Boulevard) to the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway then under construction.
The Earhart Expressway, running east–west immediately south of Airline Drive, is the only other freeway entering New Orleans from the west, but it ends as an expressway soon after crossing into Orleans Parish and well before the New Orleans CBD (in Central City.) The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway where it hits the South Shore in Metairie
An extension, never part of the Interstate Highway System, was to continue west to meet the Earhart Expressway (Louisiana Highway 3139). A small piece of the freeway was built as a six-lane, 690-by-98-foot-long-and-wide (210 m × 30 m) tunnel, under the Rivergate Convention Center, now Harrah's New Orleans Casino.
It enters New Orleans/Orleans Parish before coming to an end at a diamond interchange (Exit 231A) with I-10 (the Pontchartrain Expressway) at Pontchartrain Boulevard. With the exception of the block-long divided, four-lane section near Severn Avenue (configured in February 1957), LA 611-9 is an undivided, two-lane highway in Jefferson Parish ...
Completion of Earhart Expressway, making access to New Orleans proper much easier, influenced this growth as the appeal of Harahan as a “bedroom community.” Today, Harahan is directly influenced by its relationship with the larger surrounding areas including Jefferson Parish and the city of New Orleans.