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Airline Highway is a divided highway in the U.S. state of Louisiana, built in stages between 1925 and 1953 to bypass the older Jefferson Highway.It runs 115.6 miles (186.0 km), [1] carrying U.S. Highway 61 from New Orleans northwest to Baton Rouge and U.S. Highway 190 from Baton Rouge west over the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long Bridge.
US 61 south (Airline Highway) – New Orleans US 190 east / US 61 Bus. north / US 190 Bus. west (Florida Boulevard) – Baton Rouge, Hammond US 190 Byp. begins: Traffic circle; southern terminus of US 61 Byp.; eastern terminus of US 190 Byp.; southern end of US 190 Byp. concurrency: 2.0: 3.2: LA 37 (Greenwell Springs Road) – Greenwell Springs ...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Official name: Huey P. Long - O.K. Allen Bridge: Other name(s) Old Bridge: Maintained by: Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development [1] ID number: 611700071000001: Characteristics; Design: Cantilever truss bridge: Total length: 5,879 feet (1,792 m) Clearance below: 113 feet (34 m) History; Construction cost ...
The route became LA 611-10 in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering and assumed its present number in 1972. The extension of Clearview Parkway, complete with railroad overpass, south from Airline Highway to the Huey P. Long Bridge at Jefferson Highway, opened in June 1973 and was designated as South Clearview Parkway.
Louisiana Highway 50 (LA 50) runs 0.85 miles (1.37 km) in a north–south direction along Almedia Road in St. Rose, St. Charles Parish. [50]The route heads northward from an intersection with LA 48 (River Road) at the Mississippi River, crossing both the Canadian National Railway (CN) and Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) tracks at grade, to a point on US 61 (Airline Highway) just east of an ...
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 ]
Little Farms Avenue was originally designated as State Route 2220 in the pre-1955 system and included the entire length of the road from Jefferson Highway to Airline Highway (now Airline Drive). It became LA 611-13 in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering , but in 1972, the route was renumbered to LA 3155 [ 11 ] and retained only the section ...
Louisiana Highway 74 (LA 74) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs 10.67 miles (17.17 km) in an east–west direction from LA 75 in St. Gabriel to U.S. Highway 61 (US 61) north of Gonzales. Much of LA 74 traverses a string of newer residential subdivisions growing out of the Baton Rouge metropolitan area.