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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.
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 ...
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.
) 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 alignment in 1960.
East Baton Rouge: Old Jefferson: 12.7: 20.4: LA 948 west / Round Oak Drive: Western terminus of LA 948: Baton Rouge: 16.6: 26.7: US 61 south (Airline Highway) Southern end of US 61 concurrency: 16.9: 27.2: LA 3246 west (Siegen Lane) / Sherwood Forest Boulevard: Eastern terminus of LA 3246: Inniswold: 17.6: 28.3: US 61 north (Airline Highway ...
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 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.
When the U.S. Highway System was designated in 1926, the Jefferson Highway was split into four U.S. Highways in Louisiana: US 61 from New Orleans to Baton Rouge (before it was re-routed onto the Airline Highway), US 71 from Baton Rouge to Clarence, US 171 from Mansfield to Shreveport, and US 80 from Shreveport west into Texas. The section ...