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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.
US 61 south (Airline Highway) – New Orleans US 190 east / US 61 Bus. north / US 190 Bus. west (Florida Boulevard) – Baton Rouge, Hammond US 190 Byp. begins: Traffic circle; southern terminus of US 61 Byp.; eastern terminus of US 190 Byp.; southern end of US 190 Byp. concurrency: 2.0: 3.2: LA 37 (Greenwell Springs Road) – Greenwell Springs ...
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 ...
Little Farms Avenue was originally designated as State Route 2220 in the pre-1955 system and included the entire length of the road from Jefferson Highway to Airline Highway (now Airline Drive). It became LA 611-13 in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering , but in 1972, the route was renumbered to LA 3155 [ 11 ] and retained only the section ...
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 ...
From the west, LA 42 starts at an intersection with LA 30 in Baton Rouge near Louisiana State University. It is a four-lane divided highway for 7.6 miles (12.2 km) from LA 30 eastward to an intersection with Highland Road and Siegen Lane in southeastern Baton Rouge. This section is named Burbank Drive. [1]
The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office reported William Nicholas Abraham, 69, was found dead wrapped in a tarp along Highway 51 in the parish on Sept. 29, 2024.
Louisiana Highway 3246 (LA 3246) runs 3.80 miles (6.12 km) in a north–south direction along Siegen Lane from LA 42 south of Baton Rouge to the concurrent US 61 and LA 73 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish. [45] The route begins at an intersection at which LA 42 turns east from Burbank Drive onto Highland Road.