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Interstate 10 (I-10), a major transcontinental Interstate Highway in the Southern United States, runs across the southern part of Louisiana for 274.42 miles (441.64 km) [1][3] from Texas to Mississippi. It passes through Lake Charles, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge, dips south of Lake Pontchartrain to serve the New Orleans metropolitan area, then ...
U.S. Highway 90 (US 90), one of the major east–west U.S. Highways in the Southern United States, runs through southern Louisiana for 297.6 miles (478.9 km), serving Lake Charles, Lafayette, New Iberia, Morgan City, and New Orleans. Much of it west of Lafayette and east of New Orleans has been supplanted by Interstate 10 (I-10) for all but ...
Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System. I-10 is the fourth-longest Interstate in the United States at 2,460.34 miles (3,959.53 km), following I-90, I-80, and I-40. This freeway is part of the originally planned network that was laid out in 1956, and its last section was completed in 1990.
When coming from Louisiana, I-10 ended at MS 607 (exit 2). Today, entering Mississippi from Louisiana, the first 12 miles (19 km) is the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center easement zone. To this day, I-10 displays the control city of Bay St. Louis from traveling from New Orleans, Louisiana; and Pascagoula from traveling from Mobile, Alabama.
Route classification and data. I-610 is classified as an urban Interstate by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD). Daily traffic volume in 2013 averaged between 68,000 and 70,900 vehicles over the entire route. [5] The posted speed limit is 60 mph (97 km/h). [2]
Scenic. 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 ]
Construction cost. $46 million [1] Opened. April 10, 1968 [2] Statistics. Daily traffic. 107,000 (2005) Location. The Horace Wilkinson Bridge (locally known as the New Bridge) is a cantilever bridge carrying Interstate 10 in Louisiana across the Mississippi River from Port Allen in West Baton Rouge Parish to Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish.
State. Scenic. ← LA 309. → LA 310. Interstate 310 (I-310) is a short spur route of I-10 west of New Orleans, located entirely in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. It begins at a point on I-10 just west of Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and the city of Kenner. It travels southward as an elevated freeway across the LaBranche ...