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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).
Since 2008, La DOTD has been replacing the green-and-white state highway markers with a black-and-white version using the same design. [2] The new shields have a black background, white silhouette, black letters and numbers, and no frame outline (see photo below for comparison). Highway names; State: Louisiana Highway X (LA X) Special routes:
A Louisiana Highway Department gravel truck driver pauses in front of his orange-colored vehicle (1972). The new Louisiana Constitution of 1976 (adopted in 1974) and Act 83 of 1977 abolished the Departments of Highways and Public Works and restructured them into the Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), thereby encompassing related activities such as highways, public works ...
The Interstate Highway System in Louisiana consists of 933.84 miles (1,502.87 km) [4] of freeways constructed and maintained by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (La DOTD). The system was authorized on June 29, 1956 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 . [ 1 ]
Louisiana Highway 3228 (LA 3228) ran 0.65 miles (1.05 km) in a north–south direction along Asbury Drive from US 190 in Mandeville to a point on the US 190 east frontage road just north of Mandeville, St. Tammany Parish. [24] It is a remnant of the original alignment of US 190 before it became a controlled-access highway in the 1980s.
LA 613-2 was a four-lane, divided highway from its southern terminus to LA 611–9, where it narrowed to an undivided, two-lane highway for the remainder of its route. LA 613-2 was part of State Route 33 in pre-1955 Louisiana Highway system and, like LA 613–1, was part of the never-completed New Orleans-Hammond Lakeshore Highway .
Louisiana Highway 1079 (LA 1079) runs 1.40 miles (2.25 km) in a north–south direction along the east bank of the Tensas River from LA 888 at Westwood, Tensas Parish to a point near the Madison Parish line. [38] It is an undivided two-lane highway for its entire length. The entire highway is in Tensas 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 ...