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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.
The portion of LA 44 running along the Mississippi River was once part of the Jefferson Highway auto trail designated in 1916 and the main traffic route between New Orleans and Baton Rouge prior to the construction of the Airline Highway in the 1930s. In 1921, it became part of State Route 1 in the pre-1955 Louisiana highway system and the ...
The highway's practical need was questioned as construction progressed on the more important Airline Highway, a streamlined route between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that would parallel the lakeshore route through the area. [22] The death knell, however, was the construction of the Bonnet Carré Spillway in 1933 that bisected the route.
The U.S. Highway System in Louisiana consists of 2,490.851 miles (4,008.636 km) of mainline highway routes and 107.785 miles (173.463 km) of special routes (both figures including concurrencies) that are constructed and maintained by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (La DOTD).
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 state has been blocked from putting the law into effect in five school districts — Livingston, St. Tammany, Vernon, East Baton Rouge and Orleans —by U.S. District Judge John deGravelles on ...
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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.