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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.
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.
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 route became LA 611-10 in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering and assumed its present number in 1972. The extension of Clearview Parkway, complete with railroad overpass, south from Airline Highway to the Huey P. Long Bridge at Jefferson Highway, opened in June 1973 and was designated as South Clearview Parkway.
1937–1941: The Huey P. Long Bridge was opened in December 1935. US 90 was re-routed over the bridge, following Jefferson Highway into Orleans Parish, after widening of that thoroughfare to four lanes was completed in 1937. (LA 2 remained on the old alignment until the 1955 renumbering of Louisiana highways.)
Huey P. Long Bridge may refer to: Huey P. Long Bridge (Baton Rouge) , in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States Huey P. Long Bridge (Jefferson Parish) , in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States (near New Orleans), a civil engineering landmark
Another legend has it that Huey P. Long built Airline Highway so he could get from the statehouse to the back door of the hotel as quickly as possible. "During that time of course, this was all ...
Horace Wilkinson Bridge, Baton Rouge; Huey P. Long Bridge, Baton Rouge – carries four lanes of U.S. Route 190 across the Mississippi River. Two railroad trestles. Huey P. Long Bridge, Jefferson Parish – one of the longest railroad bridges in the US: 7 km (4.3 mi)