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The Huey P. Long - O.K. Allen Bridge (locally known as the Old Bridge) is a truss cantilever bridge over the Mississippi River carrying US 190 (Airline Highway) and one rail line between East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana and West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
A second Huey P. Long Bridge, which is very similar to the design of this bridge in New Orleans before its renovation, was built further upstream in 1940 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. While both of the Long bridges still carry both types of traffic, most of the others have been converted either to entirely rail use (Harahan since 1949, MacArthur ...
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
Around the Baton Rouge metropolitan area, the bridge is more commonly known as the "New Bridge" because it is the younger of the two bridges that cross the river in Baton Rouge, downstream of the older Huey P. Long Bridge.
The U.S. 90 (Huey P. Long Bridge) between Jefferson Highway and Seven Oaks Boulevard has one lane open in both directions. A winter storm hit the area on Tuesday, dumping record amounts of snow ...
Baton Rouge serves double duty as a college town and Louisiana’s capital. ... The 450-foot-tall new State Capitol was built by Governor and U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, who tragically was shot in ...
On September 8, 1935, Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Long was an extremely popular and influential politician at the time, and his death eliminated a possible 1936 presidential bid against Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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