Talk:U.S. Route 90 in Louisiana

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1924 route (as the Old Spanish Trail)

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Crossed Pearl River at Pearl River, LA via Old US-11, probably used US 11 into Slidell, then LA 433, US 90

until early 1925, a ferry is required between Pearlington, MS and Chef Menteur, LA

through New Orleans on Old Gentilly Road - Bruxelles Street? (1917 clearly shows Bruxelles) - Broad Avenue - Canal Street (met the Jefferson Highway, which came via Metairie Road) - St. Charles Avenue - Walnut Street - ferry to Westwego

LA 18 - (not sure about LA 541 vs Bridge City Avenue - USGS says Bridge City Avenue) - LA 541 - (what about where there's now some sort of industrial thing blocking the riverfront? that apparently once went straight through) - LA 18 - LA 52 - various obvious old alignments - LA 182 to Raceland

two alignments between Raceland and Gibson - via Houma to open October 1924, no date on via Thibodaux

LA 1 - LA 20 or LA 182 to Gibson, LA 182 (ferry across Berwick Bay) - looks like LA 182 on the owbows through Berwick and Patterson - definitely LA 182 west of there - LA 326 and Chitimacha Trail on the owbow west of Baldwin - LA 182

no idea through Lafayette

generally US 90 west of Lafayette - looks like it crossed just west of the lake in Lake Charles - ferry into Orange

Selected bridge dates

1925 LA 729 under railroad (Broussard-Lafayette cutoff)
1965 US 90 over Vermilion River (new in Lafayette)
1931 LA 182 over Bayou Choupique (Adeline-Baldwin cutoff)
1964 US 90 over Little Bayou Black (cutoff in Berwick)
1933 LA 182 over Berwick Bay
1932 LA 182 over Bayou Ramos (east of Morgan City - probably upgraded on the spot)
1950 LA 182 over Alligator Bayou (east of Boeuf - probably upgraded on the spot)
1946 LA 182 qver Bayou Black (at Gibson - probably upgraded on the spot)
1940 over Sellers Canal and 1941 over US 90 Business (Boutte-Huey Long Bridge cutoff)

Reorganized article

There was no route description so I added one, with some reorganization, and with contribs and references. Otr500 (talk) 06:08, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]