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Louisiana Highway 38
Louisiana Highway 38 (LA 38) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs in an east–west direction from LA 10 in Coleman Town to LA 430 south of Hackley. The route traverses the rural pine forests in three of the state's Florida Parishes, crossing three rivers along the way: the Tickfaw, Tangipahoa, and Bogue Chitto. LA 38 runs north of the parallel LA 10 and encounters only two populated areas of significance: the town of Kentwood in Tangipahoa Parish and the small unincorporated community of Mount Hermon in Washington Parish. In Kentwood, the highway intersects both Interstate 55 (I-55) and U.S. Highway 51 (US 51). LA 38 was designated in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering, replacing the former State Route 71. It also absorbed the former State Route 262-D on its east end and a portion of State Route 1223 on its west end to connect with the cross-state LA 10 near Chipola. Route description From the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana Department Of Transportation And Development
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) is a state government organization in the United States, in charge of maintaining public transportation, roadways, bridges, canals, select levees, floodplain management, port facilities, commercial vehicles, and aviation which includes 69 airports, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The agency has approximately five thousand personnel on staff and an operating budget of $2.3 billion. DOTD operations are run through nine district offices across the state. The current DOTD Secretary is Shawn D. Wilson, appointed in January 2016 by Governor John Bel Edwards. Other functions of the DOTD are Dams (Dam Safety Program), flood control (Floodplain Management, water resource management (wells), and maintaining state-run ferries and moveable bridge status. The Louisiana Transportation Authority (LTA) is also under the DOTD, as well as the DOTD port construction and development. History The Louisiana Highway Commission was estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |