Airline Highway

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{{Infobox road
|state=LA
|type=US
|name=Airline Highway
|map=Airline Highway map.svg
|map_notes=Route of the Airline Highway highlighted in red
|marker_image=[[File:US 61.svg|70px]] [[File:US 190.svg|x70px]]
|length_mi=115.6
|length_ref=<ref name="GMaps"/>
|formed=1925 (planned);<br>1927 (first section opened);<br>1953 (last section opened)
|allocation={{jct|state=LA|US|61}} from [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]] to [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]<br/>{{jct|state=LA|US|190}} from Baton Rouge to near [[Krotz Springs, Louisiana|Krotz Springs]]
|direction_a=Southeast
|terminus_a={{jct|state=LA|US|61}} in [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]]
|junction=
*{{jct|state=LA|I|10}} in New Orleans
*{{jct|state=LA|I|310}} in [[St. Rose, Louisiana|St. Rose]]
*{{jct|state=LA|US|51}} in [[LaPlace, Louisiana|LaPlace]]
*{{jct|state=LA|I|10}} southeast of [[Sorrento, Louisiana|Sorrento]]
*{{jct|state=LA|I|12|US|190|I|110|US|61}} in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]
|direction_b=Northwest
|terminus_b={{jct|state=LA|US|190}} east of [[Krotz Springs, Louisiana|Krotz Springs]]
|parishes=[[Orleans Parish, Louisiana|Orleans]], [[Jefferson Parish, Louisiana|Jefferson]], [[St. Charles Parish, Louisiana|St. Charles]], [[St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana|St. John the Baptist]], [[St. James Parish, Louisiana|St. James]], [[Ascension Parish, Louisiana|Ascension]], [[East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana|East Baton Rouge]], [[West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana|West Baton Rouge]], [[Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana|Pointe Coupee]]
}}
'''Airline Highway''' is a [[divided highway]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Louisiana]], built in stages between 1925 and 1953 to bypass the older [[Jefferson Highway]].  It runs {{convert|115.6|mi|km}},<ref name="GMaps">{{Google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Airline+Highway+(Southeastern+Terminus)&daddr=30.159431,-90.8133883+to:Airline+Highway+(Northwestern+Terminus)&hl=en&ll=30.270928,-90.804749&spn=1.306987,2.705383&sll=30.145869,-90.814877&sspn=0.081793,0.169086&geocode=FVxMyQEdkRGh-g%3BFUcyzAEdNEyW-inP-FNmtMwmhjEd7C-1tiiRtA%3BFcoh0gEdgxaI-g&oq=krotz&dirflg=h&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=13&via=1&t=m&z=9 |title=Overview Map of Airline Highway |access-date=July 14, 2013}}</ref> carrying [[U.S. Highway 61 (Louisiana)|U.S. Highway 61]] from [[New Orleans (LA)|New Orleans]] northwest to [[Baton Rouge (LA)|Baton Rouge]] and [[U.S. Highway 190 (Louisiana)|U.S. Highway 190]] from Baton Rouge west over the [[Mississippi River]] on the [[Huey P. Long Bridge (Baton Rouge)|Huey P. Long Bridge]].  US 190 continues west towards [[Opelousas (LA)|Opelousas]] on an extension built at roughly the same time.

The highway was named "Airline" because it runs relatively straight on a new alignment, rather than alongside the winding [[Mississippi River]]. (Compare with the similar term ''[[air-line railroad]]''.)  The name later became even more fitting, as both [[Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport]] and [[Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport]] were built along the highway.  Airline Highway also runs close to the site of the old Baton Rouge airfield (near the intersection of Airline and Florida Boulevard, now a park and government office complex), which brings it within blocks of the similarly named Airport Avenue and Airway Drive.

==History==
The highway's origin is famously identified with Governor [[Huey P. Long]], who advocated for a modern highway system in Louisiana.  Though the project was underway when Long took office, most of its initial construction was completed during his administration.  The Airline Highway was considered a pet project of Long's as it reduced the length of his journey between the capitol building in Baton Rouge and the bars and establishments in New Orleans, namely [[The Roosevelt New Orleans|The Sazerac Bar in the Roosevelt Hotel]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Mahne|first=Theodore P.|title=Huey Long just one chapter of storied history of New Orleans' Roosevelt Hotel, which reopens Wednesday|work=The Times-Picayune|location=New Orleans, LA|date=June 30, 2009|url=http://www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2009/06/huey_long_just_one_chapter_of.html|access-date=May 3, 2015}}</ref> Originally, Airline Highway was a two-lane road that ran from [[Prairieville, Louisiana|Prairieville]] to [[Shrewsbury, Louisiana|Shrewsbury]].  The first section, running between Williams Boulevard in [[Kenner, Louisiana|Kenner]] and Shrewsbury Road, opened in June 1927.<ref name="T-P 6-1-27">{{cite news |title=News of Metairie and the highway |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans |date=June 1, 1927 |page=36}}</ref>  It was begun by the Jefferson Parish Police Jury as a local road and incorporated into the plan for Airline Highway during construction.<ref name="T-P 7-19-25">{{cite news |title=Airline route to state capital is feasible project |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans |date=July 19, 1925 |page=4–1}}</ref>  The remainder of the highway was built between 1928 and 1933 by the Louisiana Highway Commission with federal aid, as the road would carry US 61 upon completion.

The section north of the spillway was officially opened on July 4, 1933,<ref name="T-P 7-4-33">{{cite news |title=Opening of airline route announced |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans |date=July 4, 1933 |page=1}}</ref> and the section on the south side followed three weeks later.<ref name="T-P 7-29-33">{{cite news |title=Road to capital cut by opening of new section |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans |date=July 29, 1933 |pages=2–11}}</ref>  (Various sections had been temporarily opened to traffic beginning in October 1931.)  Completion of the bridge over the [[Bonnet Carre Spillway|Bonnet Carré Spillway]] was delayed until 1935, necessitating a detour over the Jefferson Highway (River Road) via temporary gravel roads along the spillway guide levees.<ref name="T-P 5-1-35">{{cite news |title=Driving distance to Baton Rouge will be reduced |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans |date=May 1, 1935 |page=1}}</ref>  The spillway bridge was opened to traffic on September 28, 1935<ref name="T-P 9-24-35">{{cite news |title=Spillway bridge may be ready for use on Saturday |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans |date=September 24, 1935 |page=1}}</ref> and dedicated on December 13.<ref name="T-P 12-13-35">{{cite news |title=Throng to rally at Bonnet Carre Spillway today |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans |date=December 13, 1935 |page=1}}</ref>

At this time, traffic was routed from Prairieville into Baton Rouge over the Jefferson Highway (today's [[Louisiana Highway 73|LA 73]]).  On the New Orleans end, travelers had the option to continue on Airline Highway and follow Metairie Road (the original route of Jefferson Highway) into town or transfer to the Jefferson Highway (today's [[Louisiana Highway 48|LA 48]]) at Kenner and follow the direct connection onto [[Claiborne Avenue|South Claiborne Avenue]] completed in 1928.

The first improvements to the Airline Highway began in 1935 and consisted of widening and re-surfacing the Kenner-Shrewsbury link built a decade earlier.  The new four-lane section from Williams Boulevard to Haring Road opened in October 1937.<ref name="T-P 10-30-37">{{cite news |title=Shrewsbury-Kenner Air Line Highway link open to traffic |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans |date=October 30, 1937 |page=1}}</ref>  The new four- and six-lane section from Haring Road to Labarre Road opened in December 1938.<ref name="T-P 12-20-38">{{cite news |title=Short-cut road on Baton Rouge route is opened |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans |date=December 20, 1938 |page=3}}</ref>  The latter project included a slight re-alignment and extension on the Shrewsbury end.  (Present-day Robertson Street is a remnant of the old alignment.)  The eight-lane extension into Tulane Avenue (reached by a now-demolished six-lane bridge over the former [[New Basin Canal]]) was officially opened on August 26, 1940.<ref name="T-P 8-25-40">{{cite news |title=Air-Line Highway bridge ceremony slated Monday |newspaper=The Times-Picayune New Orleans States |location=New Orleans |date=August 25, 1940 |page=1}}</ref>

Also in 1940, the [[Huey P. Long Bridge (Baton Rouge)|Old Mississippi River Bridge]] opened in Baton Rouge.  With this occurrence, a 7.9 mile bypass was built around the city that went to the Nesser Overpass, opening to traffic in July 1941—this bypass was part of Airline Highway, but it was not connected to the rest of the highway until 1953.  A further extension continued west to the Atchafalaya Bridge at Krotz Springs.  The remainder of the highway was multilaned in sections during the 1940s and the 1950s.  For a short time in that decade, it was the longest toll-free four-lane highway in the nation, as the multilaned portion ran 124 miles from the [[Atchafalaya River]] to New Orleans.<ref name="T-P 8-17-52">{{cite news |title=Nation's longest toll-free four-lane highway nearing finish |newspaper=The Times-Picayune New Orleans States |location=New Orleans |date=August 17, 1952 |page=2}}</ref>  The spillway bridge carried four very narrow lanes of traffic (often resulting in accidents) until 1984 when a parallel bridge was constructed.<ref name="T-P 3-30-84">{{cite news |title=New bridge over spillway opens quietly |newspaper=The Times-Picayune/The States-Item |location=New Orleans |date=March 30, 1984 |pages=1–26}}</ref>

The majority of the New Orleans-Baton Rouge section was built parallel to the [[Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company]], which was itself built later than the slightly longer [[Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad]]. The former Louisiana Railway, now part of the [[Kansas City Southern Railway]], crosses the Huey Long Bridge with the highway and splits to the northwest towards [[Shreveport (LA)|Shreveport]]; the extension to [[Opelousas (LA)|Opelousas]] parallels the [[New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway]] (later part of the [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]]).

Originally US Highways [[U.S. Route 65|65]] and [[U.S. Route 51|51]] were cosigned to Airline (65 the entire length, and 51 from LaPlace to New Orleans).  In 1951, Louisiana truncated the route lengths, and the highway, with the exception of a portion in north Baton Rouge, is signed as US 61.

In an effort to clean up the highway's notorious history due to the seedy hotels and motels that once lined it, the portion in Jefferson Parish has been renamed '''Airline Drive.'''

==Baton Rouge bypass==
[[File:Airline HighwayLaPLaceLousiana.jpg|thumb|200px|Sign showing the intersection of [[U.S. Highway 61]] (Airline Highway) at [[U.S. Highway 51]] in [[LaPlace, Louisiana]]]]
[[Image:Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1955 Yellow Book.jpg|thumb|200px|1955 [[Interstate Highway]] plans, showing the Baton Rouge bypass on the Airline Highway as an urban route (numbered I-410 by 1959)]]

The portion of the Airline Highway north and east of downtown [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]] carries [[U.S. Highway 61 (Louisiana)|U.S. Highway 61]] and [[U.S. Highway 190 (Louisiana)|U.S. Highway 190]] around downtown, and includes several [[interchange (road)|interchange]]s. The bypass was designated '''U.S. Highway 61/190 Bypass''' from 1957 to 1963,{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} after which US 61 and US 190 were moved onto it, and their old routes through downtown became [[U.S. Route 61 Business (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)|US&nbsp;61 Business]]/[[U.S. Route 190 Business (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)|US&nbsp;190 Business]]. The bypass and business routes originally intersected in a [[traffic circle]], which was replaced in 1963 by a [[cloverleaf interchange]].

In the original 1955 plan for [[urban area|urban]] [[Interstate Highway]]s, numbered by 1959, the Baton Rouge bypass was designated '''Interstate 410'''; it would have connected to [[Interstate 10 (Louisiana)|Interstate 10]] on both ends (as I-10 would have used the US 190 corridor immediately west of Baton Rouge, still crossing the [[Atchafalaya Swamp]] in its present location). The route was cancelled by the end of the 1960s, and the number was later reused for another [[Interstate 410 (Louisiana 1969)|I-410]] (which itself was cancelled in 1977).

==Major intersections==
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|mile2=114.5
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{{jct|state=LA|I|10|dir1=east|to2=to|US-Bus|90|dab2=New Orleans|location1=Westbank}} (southbound)
|notes=Exit 232 on I-10
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|notes=Interchange; northern terminus of LA 3046 (not signed)
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{{LAint
|mile=112.7
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|notes=Western terminus of LA 611-9; to Metairie Road
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{{LAint
|mile=112.5
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|notes=At Cleary Avenue
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{{LAint
|mile=112.2
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|notes=
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|mile=112.0
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|notes=Northern terminus of LA 3154
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{{LAint
|mile=111.5
|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|3155|name1=Little Farms Avenue}}
|notes=Northern terminus of LA 3155 (not signed)
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{{LAint
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|notes=Exit 2 on I-310
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{{LAint
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|notes=Northern terminus of LA 626
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{{LAint
|location=Norco
|lspan=2
|mile=105.4
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|notes=Northern terminus of LA 627
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|mile=104.0
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|notes=Western terminus of LA 48
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|lspan=5
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{{LAint
|mile=98.2
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|notes=Northern terminus of LA 636-1
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{{LAint
|mile=96.2
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|notes=Eastern terminus of LA 44
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{{LAint
|mile=96.1
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|notes=Southern terminus of US 51
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{{LAint
|mile=96.0
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|notes=Southern terminus of LA 3188
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{{LAint
|location=Reserve
|lspan=3
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|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|3179|dir1=south|name1=East 22nd Street}}
|notes=Northern terminus of LA 3179
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{{LAint
|mile=93.0
|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|53|dir1=south|name1=Central Avenue|location1=[[Reserve&ndash;Edgard Ferry]]}}
|notes=Northern terminus of LA 53
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{{LAint
|mile=90.0
|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|637|dir1=south|name1=West 10th Street}}
|notes=Northern terminus of LA 637
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{{LAint
|location=Garyville
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|notes=Northern terminus of LA 54
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{{LAint
|parish=St. James
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|notes=LA 3213 southbound leads to [[Gramercy Bridge]] (not signed)
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{{LAint
|location=Gramercy
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|notes=Northern terminus of LA 3274
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{{LAint
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|notes=Exit 187 on I-10
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{{LAint
|location=none
|mile=80.2
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|notes=Western terminus of LA 3140
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{{LAint
|location=Sorrento
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{{LAint
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{{LAint
|mile=71.0
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{{LAint
|mile=69.200
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{{LAint
|mile=68.2
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|notes=
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{{LAint
|location=none
|mile=67.4
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|notes=Eastern terminus of LA 74
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{{LAint
|location=none
|mile=66.2
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|notes=
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{{LAint
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|notes=South end of LA 42 concurrency
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{{LAint
|mile=57.9
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|notes=
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{{LAint
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{{LAint
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{{LAint
|mile=47.0
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{{LAint
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{{LAint
|mile=43.0
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{{LAint
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{{LAint
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}}
{{LAint
|mile=34.3
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}}
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|notes=Interchange; north end of US 61 concurrency; northwestern terminus of US 61/190 Business; to [[Southern University]]
}}
{{jctbridge
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{{LAint
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{{LAint
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{{LAint
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{{LAint
|location=Westover
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{{LAint
|location=none
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{{LAint
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{{LAint
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|cspan=9
|location=none
|type=concur
|mile=19.8
|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|1|dir1=north|name1=Wye Road|city1=New Roads|city2=Marksville}}
|notes=West end of LA 1 concurrency
}}
{{LAint
|location=Torbert
|mile=17.0
|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|978|dir1=north|name1=Bigman Lane}}
|notes=Southern terminus of LA 978
}}
{{LAint
|location=Livonia
|lspan=2
|mile=15.8
|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|78|name1=Mississippi River Trail|city1=False River|city2=New Roads|city3=St. Francisville}}<br/>{{jct|state=LA|LA|411|name1=Maringouin Road East|city1=Maringouin|city2=Rosedale|city3=Ramah}}
|notes=Southern terminus of LA 78; northern terminus of LA 411
}}
{{LAint
|mile=12.6
|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|77|name1=Fordoche Road, Maringouin Road West|to2=to|I|10|city1=Maringouin|city2=Fordoche}}
|notes=
}}
{{LAint
|location=Blanks
|mile=10.0
|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|976}}
|notes=Northern terminus of LA 976
}}
{{LAint
|location=Lottie
|mile=7.8
|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|81|name1=Charles Road|city1=Fordoche|city2=Morganza}}
|notes=
}}
{{jctbridge
|location=none
|mile=4.9
|mile2=4.5
|bridge=Bridge over [[Morganza Spillway]]
}}
{{LAint
|location=none
|mile=0.2
|road={{jct|state=LA|LA|975|city1=Sherburne|location2=[[Sherburne Wildlife Management Area]]}}
|notes=Interchange; northern terminus of LA 975
}}
{{LAint
|location=none
|type=concur
|mile=0.0
|road={{jct|state=LA|US|190|dir1=west|city1=Opelousas}}
|notes=Northwestern terminus; west end of US 190 conurrency;<br/>At [[Krotz Springs Bridge|Atchafalaya River Bridge]]
}}
{{Jctbtm|keys=concur,incomplete}}

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://wwwsp.dotd.la.gov/Pages/default.aspx LA DOTD website]

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