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The Robert Moses Causeway is an 8.10-mile (13.04 km) state parkway in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island. It is named for the master builder and urban planner Robert Moses . The parkway, originally known as the Captree Causeway , connects West Islip on Long Island to the barrier beach islands, such as Captree Island, Jones Beach Island ...
The southern end of the causeway at Metairie, Louisiana, in 1998. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, [2] is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38 ...
U.S. Highway 11 (US 11) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that spans 1,645 miles (2,647 km) [a] [2] from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Rouses Point, New York. Within the state of Louisiana, the highway travels 31 miles (50 km) [ 1 ] from the national southern terminus at US 90 in New Orleans to the Mississippi state line south ...
The 665-foot-long (203 m) bascule bridge meets the Ocean Parkway at a cloverleaf interchange. [1] This interchange, which provides access to Captree State Park, Gilgo State Park and Jones Beach State Park, served as the southern terminus of the Robert Moses Causeway that leads to the Fire Island Inlet Bridge, the Fire Island Lighthouse, and Robert Moses State Park.
Passing multiple u-turn ramps between directions, the parkway soon leaves Jones Beach State Park and enters a piece of the town of Oyster Bay. Passing south of Guggenheim Pond, the Ocean Parkway continues east as the four-lane arterial it was in the park, soon entering Tobay Beach Park, where the median expands for a short distance.
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.
The damage to the Twin Spans and to U.S. Route 90 to the east left only one route into New Orleans from the east, the U.S. Route 11 bridge just west of the Twin Spans. The Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development (DOTD) accepted a bid of $30.9 million from Boh Brothers Construction Company on September 9, 2005, to reconstruct the ...
Location mi [1] km Destinations Notes; Elmwood: 0.0: 0.0: US 90 (Jefferson Highway, Huey P. Long Bridge) – New Orleans, Westbank LA 48 west (Jefferson Highway) Interchange; Huey P. Long Bridge across Mississippi River on the southeast: 1.2: 1.9: LA 3139 (Earhart Expressway) – Harahan, New Orleans: Interchange: Metairie: 1.8: 2.9