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Louisiana Highway 98
Louisiana Highway 98 (LA 98) is a state highway located in southern Louisiana. It runs in an east–west direction from the junction of LA 97 and LA 1123 west of Iota to the Lafayette– St. Martin parish line east of Carencro. The route traverses the rural area north of and parallel to Interstate 10 (I-10) and U.S. Highway 90 (US 90) between Jennings and Lafayette. It briefly dips southward into the city of Rayne and intersects I-10 by way of a concurrency with LA 35. Otherwise, LA 98 largely passes through small rural communities, such as Iota, Maxie, Roberts Cove, and Mire. Near the east end of its route, LA 98 cuts between the adjacent cities of Lafayette and Carencro. LA 98 was designated in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering from portions of ten former routes. It thus takes a segmented and serpentine path through much of Acadia Parish. In Lafayette Parish, however, the route was almost entirely relocated onto the straight ... [...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] |