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LA 23 connects Gretna and Venice.Between Belle Chasse and Venice, the highway serves as the main road along the west bank of the Mississippi River.In Belle Chasse, the highway crosses the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway via two antiquated crossings: southbound traffic uses the 1955-vintage Belle Chasse Tunnel, a narrow crossing that does not allow passing; northbound traffic uses the 1967-vintage ...
Belle Chasse is located at (29.852243, -89.9983335), in the New Orleans metropolitan area According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 28.4 square miles (74 km 2 ), of which 24.9 square miles (64 km 2 ) is land and 3.5 square miles (9.1 km 2 ) (12.21%) is water.
The Belle Chasse–Scarsdale Ferry is a ferry across the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana, connecting Belle Chasse and Scarsdale and is maintained by Plaquemines Parish. [1] It carries a $1 toll for 2-axle vehicles, $2 for vehicles with at least 3 axles, and $.50 for motorcycles.
From the south, LA 387 began at an intersection with LA 23 in Belle Chasse. It proceeded north along the west bank of the Mississippi River and turned northeast just before its end at the former U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot. LA 387 was an undivided, two-lane highway for its entire length.
Louisiana Highway 406 (LA 406) runs 6.00 miles (9.66 km) in a north–south direction from LA 23 in Belle Chasse, Plaquemines Parish to the junction of two local roads in New Orleans, Orleans Parish. It provides access to the Woodland Bridge across the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway for Belle Chasse and an area of New Orleans known as the Algiers ...
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The Belle Chasse Tunnel was built starting in March 1954 to accommodate the new branch of the Intracoastal Canal. After nearly two years of construction, the $2,436,000 structure opened in February 1956 with the Canal beginning operations later that year.
The Judge Perez Bridge, also known as the Belle Chasse Bridge, is a vertical-lift bridge in the U.S. state of Louisiana which carries northbound Louisiana Highway 23 over the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway between Belle Chasse and Terrytown. The bridge is paired with the Belle Chasse Tunnel which carries southbound LA 23. Construction began in ...