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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.
) runs 10.80 miles (17.38 km) through Baton Rouge, the capital city of Louisiana. [2] The route is entirely concurrent with US 190 Bus., forming a loop off of mainline US 61/US 190 (Airline Highway) through the downtown area. The business route was first put into effect in 1954 and assumed its current alignment in 1960.
As of December 2020, all Louisiana documents point to US 61/190 running on the pre-2019 alignment, [10] with the exception of internal routings which show that the portion of Florida Street between I-110 and River Road having been transferred back to the City of Baton Rouge. [11]
The section of US 61 from New Orleans to Baton Rouge is known as the Airline Highway. Although the road fronts the former terminal of Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and passes near Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport , the name originally referred to the highway's straight route in contrast to that of the winding Jefferson ...
When the U.S. Highway System was designated in 1926, the Jefferson Highway was split into four U.S. Highways in Louisiana: US 61 from New Orleans to Baton Rouge (before it was rerouted onto the Airline Highway), US 71 from Baton Rouge to Clarence, US 171 from Mansfield to Shreveport, and US 80 from Shreveport west into Texas. The section ...
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Central is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, third largest city in East Baton Rouge Parish, and part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. Central had a 2020 census population of 29,565.
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