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There are multiple cameras mounted on the bridge (viewable to the public) at the beginning of the west side at mile marker 121 (LA 3177) east and west, [6] at mile marker 124.5 east [7] and west, [8] at mile marker 127 (Whiskey Bay and LA 975) east [9] and west, [10] at mile marker 131.5 (Butte Larose east [11] and west, [12] and at the east ...
The Horace Wilkinson Bridge (locally known as the New Bridge) is a cantilever bridge carrying Interstate 10 in Louisiana across the Mississippi River from Port Allen in West Baton Rouge Parish to Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish. Around the Baton Rouge metropolitan area, the bridge is more commonly known as the "New Bridge" because it is ...
John James Audubon Bridge: LA 10: St. Francisville and New Roads: 2011 Huey P. Long Bridge (Baton Rouge) US 190 Canadian Pacific Kansas City: Port Allen and Baton Rouge: 1940 Horace Wilkinson Bridge
The Atchafalaya River is navigable and provides a significant industrial shipping channel for the state of Louisiana. It is the cultural heart of the Cajun Country.. The maintenance of the river as a navigable channel of the Mississippi River has been a significant project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for more than a century.
The Huey P. Long Bridge, [5] located in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, is a cantilevered steel through-truss bridge that carries a two-track railroad line over the Mississippi River at mile 106.1, with three lanes of US 90 on each side of the central tracks. It is several kilometers upriver from the city of New Orleans.
From Lafayette, the highway heads east-northeast toward Baton Rouge via the Atchafalaya Swamp Freeway, an 18.2-mile (29.3 km) bridge across the Atchafalaya River and its accompanying swamp. Between the two cities, I-10 parallels US 190, from Opelousas to Baton Rouge. This route has signs and is designated as an alternate I-10 bypass that runs ...
LA 73 in Baton Rouge: US 190 between Baton Rouge and Denham Springs: 1955: current Was a portion of SR 7 (later SR 7-D) from 1921-1955 LA 427: 14.574: 23.455 LA 73 in Baton Rouge: LA 73 at Hope Villa: 1955: current LA 428: 8.817: 14.190 LA 23 near Belle Chasse: LA 407 in New Orleans: 1955: current LA 429: 10.190: 16.399
Although the bridge is named after former Louisiana governors Huey P. Long and Oscar K. Allen, it is known locally in the Baton Rouge Area as "the old bridge". [3] It was the only bridge across the Mississippi in Baton Rouge from its opening until April 1968, when the Horace Wilkinson Bridge ("the new bridge") carrying Interstate 10 opened.