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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.
U.S. Highway 61 Business (US 61 Bus.) runs 10.80 miles (17.38 km) through Baton Rouge, the capital city of Louisiana. [2] The route is entirely concurrent with US 190 Bus., forming a loop off of mainline US 61/US 190 (Airline Highway) through the downtown area. The business route was first put into effect in 1954 and assumed its current ...
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It proceeds northward to its terminus at US 61/LA 73 (Airline Highway) in an area on the Baton Rouge city limits known as Nesser opposite South Sherwood Forest Boulevard. As of 2018, it is under agreement to be removed from the state highway system and transferred to local control. [46] The entire highway is in East Baton Rouge Parish.
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 ...
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.
The section of US 61 from New Orleans to Baton Rouge is known as the Airline Highway. Although the road fronts the former terminal of Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and passes near Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport , the name originally referred to the highway's straight route in contrast to that of the winding Jefferson ...
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).