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Louisiana Highway 611-9
Louisiana Highway 611 (LA 611) is a collection of three current and ten former state-maintained streets in Jefferson, Louisiana, Jefferson, Metairie, Louisiana, Metairie, and New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans. All thirteen routes were established with the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering. __TOC__ Current routes Louisiana Highway 611-1 From the west, LA 611-1 begins on River Road at an intersection with Jefferson Heights Avenue in Jefferson, Louisiana, Jefferson. LA 611-1 continues eastward, running parallel to the Mississippi River, and intersects Louisiana Highway 611-3, LA 611-3 (Shrewsbury Road). The route ends at the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, Jefferson Parish/Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Orleans Parish Line adjacent to Monticello Avenue. LA 611-1 is known locally as River Road and is an undivided, two-lane highway for its entire length. LA 611-1 formerly intersected five other routes in the LA 611 group that have since been deleted from the state highway system: Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Louisiana Highway Renumbering
In 1955, Louisiana passed a law that undertook a comprehensive revision to the state highway classification and numbering system. The new system designated roads by importance to travel patterns and rectified the previous numbering system under new unified designations. History Highway numbers in Louisiana first appeared in 1921, per Act 95 of the 1921 Special Session of the Louisiana Legislature. Routes 1 through 98 were defined that year. These first 98 routes remained consistent throughout the pre-1955 era. The lowest numbered routes seem to have followed major auto trails; for instance, LA 1 was the Jefferson Highway, LA 2 was the Old Spanish Trail, etc. The remainder of the numbering system seemed to work on a lower-number, higher-order principle, with some clustering; for instance, LA 61 and 62 both existed in St. Bernard Parish. When US highways were added in 1926, the US designations were simply overlaid over the preexisting state route (SR) designations in a meth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
