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A Louisiana Highway Department gravel truck driver pauses in front of his orange-colored vehicle (1972). The new Louisiana Constitution of 1976 (adopted in 1974) and Act 83 of 1977 abolished the Departments of Highways and Public Works and restructured them into the Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), thereby encompassing related activities such as highways, public works ...
Since 2008, La DOTD has been replacing the green-and-white state highway markers with a black-and-white version using the same design. [2] The new shields have a black background, white silhouette, black letters and numbers, and no frame outline (see photo below for comparison). Highway names; State: Louisiana Highway X (LA X) Special routes:
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).
The following is a list of state highways in the U.S. state of Louisiana designated in the 1100–1149 range.. All are owned and maintained by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (La DOTD) and were designated in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering.
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 ]
Louisiana Highway 728 (LA 728) is a collection of two state highways in Walroy south of Lafayette in Lafayette Parish. Both highways are part of Hugh Wallis Road and generally run parallel to US 90 and a BNSF railroad. LA 728-2 (0.37 miles or 0.60 kilometres) begins at a curve tangent and heads north-northwest past a hotel and a few homes.
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 ...
Louisiana Highway 1252 (LA 1252) runs 6.00 miles (9.66 km) in a general east–west direction from the I-49 frontage road north of Carencro to the Lafayette–St. Martin parish line northeast of Carencro. [77] The route was formerly part of LA 726, and it is currently proposed for deletion as part of La DOTD's Road Transfer Program. [78]