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The Earhart Expressway, named for former New Orleans Commissioner of Public Utilities, Fred A. Earhart, [1] is a state highway located in both Jefferson Parish and Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It is also designated as Louisiana Highway 3139 (LA 3139), spanning a total of 5.2 miles (8.4 km). Although it is an odd-numbered highway and is bannered ...
US 90 (Jefferson Highway, Huey P. Long Bridge) – New Orleans, Westbank LA 48 west (Jefferson Highway) Interchange; Huey P. Long Bridge across Mississippi River on the southeast: 1.2: 1.9: LA 3139 (Earhart Expressway) – Harahan, New Orleans: Interchange: Metairie: 1.8: 2.9: US 61 (Airline Drive) – Kenner, New Orleans: 3.8: 6.1: I-10 ...
An extension, never part of the Interstate Highway System, was to continue west to meet the Earhart Expressway (Louisiana Highway 3139). A small piece of the freeway was built as a six-lane, 690-by-98-foot-long-and-wide (210 m × 30 m) tunnel, under the Rivergate Convention Center, now Harrah's New Orleans Casino.
LA 3046 began as part of the Greater New Orleans Expressway, a 1950s project to transform the century-old Harlem Avenue right-of-way into a multilane highway connecting U.S. 90 (Jefferson Highway), U.S. 61 (Airline Highway, now Drive), and Veterans Memorial Highway (now Boulevard) to the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway then under construction.
It is operated by the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA). Utilizing trackage from the Rampart–Loyola Streetcar Line, Canal Streetcar Line, and Riverfront Streetcar Line, it runs for a total length of 2.4 miles (3.9 km). The line is officially designated Route 49 and is denoted with a light blue color on most RTA publications. [1]
Louisiana Highway 46 (LA 46) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes.It runs in a west to east direction for a total length of 29.5 miles (47.5 km).
Earhart boarded a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra airplane alongside her ... she disappeared while visiting New Orleans on January 18, 1994. ... en route to Los Angeles with his friend, BIll Eliis ...
In addition to the Carrollton spurs of both the Canal Streetcar Line and St. Charles Streetcar Lines, two transit routes, operated by New Orleans Public Service at first and later New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, were assigned to South/North Carrollton Avenue: one local (est. in the 1950s, first known as just Carrollton, and later 90 ...