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(There is a short section of old Jefferson Highway off US 71 in Cheneyville.) US 71 and LA 456 to Lamourie. (Part of LA 456 at Lecompte is known as Jefferson Highway.) LA 470, US 71-167 (briefly), and Old Baton Rouge Highway to Alexandria. Alexandria to Pineville:
Portions of LA 1 at Reserve and Gramercy are still known as Jefferson Highway to this day. From Geismar to Baton Rouge, the route followed what is known as Old Jefferson Highway to downtown Baton Rouge. The original routing through downtown Baton Rouge followed Claycut Road, South Acadian Thruway, Government Street, 19th Street, and North ...
When the Jefferson Highway auto trail was designated in 1916, Clay Cut and Hope Villa Roads became part of the new road (there is now another Claycut Road in Baton Rouge, located south of the present-day LA-73). When Louisiana numbered their highways in 1921 plan, Jefferson Highway was designated Louisiana Highway 1.
Almost all of LA 48 follows the historic Jefferson Highway auto trail designated in 1916 and was once the main traffic route from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and points north in the state. In 1921, this became State Route 1 in the pre-1955 Louisiana highway system and the original alignment of US 61 in 1926.
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 original highway was changed to follow US 90 and LA 48. After 1935 Jefferson became S. Claiborne Avenue at the Orleans Parish line and makes a sweeping south-to-north semicircle weaving through New Orleans. As the highway swings north it intersects and runs under an elevated I-10, where it turns northwest along Tulane Avenue.
Louisiana Highway 3231 (LA 3231) ran 0.5 miles (0.80 km) in an east–west direction along Jefferson Paige Road from I-220 to the concurrent US 79 and US 80 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish. [ 27 ] The route was a short connector between US 79-80 and a diamond interchange with I-220, returned to local control after a reconstruction and realignment ...
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 ]