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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.
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.
The bridge was designed by Modjeski and Masters, the firm responsible for the earlier Huey P. Long Bridge upriver. When opened to traffic in April 1958, the Greater New Orleans Bridge was declared as having the longest cantilever structure in the United States and third longest in the world, its central span totaling 1,575 feet (480 m).
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.
The most popular story of Huey P. Long and the hotel is set in The Sazerac Bar. "Someone tried to assassinate him here in The Sazerac Bar, the gunshot hole is right up there.
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)
The railroad is managed by the Public Belt Railroad Commission, which also owns and maintains the Huey P. Long Bridge. NOPB covers over 160 kilometers (100 mi) of track with ten locomotives. No funding is received from the city; operating and capital expenses are covered by operating revenues. [2] [3]
LA-13: DeSiard Street Bridge Replaced Swing span: 1899 1997 DeSiard Street Ouachita River: Monroe: Ouachita: LA-17: Huey P. Long Bridge: Extant Cantilever: 1935 2005 US 90: Mississippi River: Jefferson: Jefferson