Louisiana Highway 46 (LA 46) is a
state highway
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in
Louisiana
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that serves
Orleans and
St. Bernard Parishes. It runs in a west to east direction for a total length of . It is demarcated as
Elysian Fields Avenue
Elysian Fields Avenue is a broad, straight avenue in New Orleans named after the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It courses south to north from the Lower Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, a distance of approximately . The avenue int ...
and St. Claude Avenue in the city of
and as St. Bernard Highway, Bayou Road, East
Judge Perez Drive, Florissant Highway and Yscloskey Highway in St. Bernard Parish. The highway is recognized by the
United States Department of Transportation
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as San Bernardo Scenic Byway.
Route description
In New Orleans, LA 46 begins as
Elysian Fields Avenue
Elysian Fields Avenue is a broad, straight avenue in New Orleans named after the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It courses south to north from the Lower Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, a distance of approximately . The avenue int ...
at an intersection with
LA 39 (North Claiborne Avenue) and
LA 3021 (Elysian Fields Avenue). After heading south five blocks, LA 46 turns onto St. Claude Avenue and heads east. It crosses the
Industrial Canal
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via the St. Claude Avenue Bridge and runs through the city's
Lower 9th Ward
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, continuing to parallel to the
Mississippi River
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. Approximately one-half mile east of the Orleans-St. Bernard Parish line, LA 46 becomes St. Bernard Highway. Serving as the southernmost west–east thoroughfare of the parish, it intersects
LA 47 (Paris Road) and
LA 3238 (Palmisano Boulevard) in
Chalmette
Chalmette ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in, and the parish seat of, St. Bernard Parish in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The 2010 census reported that Chalmette had 16,751 people; 2011 population was listed as 17,119; however, th ...
. After continuing in a south-southeast direction, the highway turns east and again meets
LA 39, which has turned west, at Bayou Road. The two highways run concurrently for two miles (3 km) near the end of East Judge Perez Drive, at which point LA 46 turns east through the community of
Reggio and
LA 300. From there, LA 46 connects to the towns of Yscloskey (via
LA 625), Shell Beach, and Hopedale (via
LA 624) before ending at a dead end with the
Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal
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.
LA 46 is a divided, four-lane highway from
LA 39/
LA 3021/North Claiborne Avenue to
LA 47/Paris Road, where it narrows to an undivided, two-lane highway from
LA 47/Paris Road to the westernmost intersection with the
LA 300/Bayou Road. The route again widens to four lanes and becomes a
divided highway
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from the westernmost intersection with the
LA 300/Bayou Road to the easternmost intersection with
LA 300/Bayou Road before narrowing again to an undivided, two-lane roadway from the easternmost intersection with
LA 300/Bayou Road to the eastern terminus at Shell Beach.
Major intersections
References
External links
La DOTD State, District, and Parish MapsDistrict 02Orleans ParishSt. Bernard Parish (West Section){{NOLA Streets
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Transportation in New Orleans
Transportation in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana