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It runs for about 70 miles (110 km) from Baton Rouge to New Orleans through the River Parishes, on both sides of the Mississippi River. Dotted on each side of the river are antebellum plantation houses. Today, there are also dozens of industrial plants along the route, [1] the health impacts of which have given rise to the name Cancer Alley.
Almost all of LA 48 follows the historic Jefferson Highway auto trail designated in 1916 and was once the main traffic route from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and points north in the state. In 1921, this became State Route 1 in the pre-1955 Louisiana highway system and the original alignment of US 61 in 1926.
River Ridge is located along a 3-mile (5 km) stretch of Jefferson Highway (Louisiana Highway 48).Its boundaries include Harahan to the east, Kenner to the northwest, Metairie to the north, and the Mississippi River to the southwest.
Elmwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, within the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. The population was 4,635 at the 2010 census, [2] and 5,649 in 2020. [3] Elmwood was part of neighboring Jefferson's census area from 1960 to 1990. The ZIP Code serving Elmwood is 70123.
This route is covered by LA 611-9, LA 3261, LA 611-3, US 90, and LA 48. (The section of road that is called "Jefferson Highway" between Shrewsbury Road and the New Orleans city limits at South Claiborne Avenue was not part of the original route, as it did not exist until 1928.) [5] Kenner to Geismar:
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is a step closer to connecting its capital city to New Orleans via a revived train line. Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a service development agreement that ...
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Southern terminus of LA 3246 10.9: 17.5: LA 427 north (Perkins Road) West end of LA 427 concurrency 11.0: 17.7: I-10 – Baton Rouge, New Orleans: Kleinpeter: 11.3: 18.2: LA 427 south (Perkins Road East) East end of LA 427 concurrency 12.6: 20.3: US 61 north (Airline Highway) LA 948 (Highland Road) West end of US 61 concurrency; western ...