Louisiana Highway 23
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
|||||||||
| Louisiana Highway 23 |
|||||||||
| Length: | 74.02[1] mi (119.12 km) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formed: | 1955 renumbering | ||||||||
| South end: | dead end in Venice | ||||||||
| Major junctions: |
  BUS US 90 in Gretna |
||||||||
| North end: |  LA 428 in Gretna |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
Louisiana Highway 23 (LA 23) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
[edit] Route description
LA 23 connects Gretna to Belle Chasse and Belle Chasse to Venice. Between Belle Chasse and Venice, the highway serves as the main road along the West Bank of Plaquemines Parish, running along the west bank of the Mississippi River. Between Belle Chasse and Venice, the highway runs through the small rural towns of Jesuit Bend, Naomi, Myrtle Grove, West Pointe A La Hache, Port Sulphur, Nairn, Empire, Buras, Triumph, and Bootheville.
[edit] History
At one time, LA 23 ran straight across the Westbank Expressway (U.S. Highway 90 Business), using Lafayette Street, 5th Street and Huey P. Long Avenue through downtown Gretna and crossing the Jackson Avenue-Gretna Ferry onto Jackson Avenue in New Orleans.[2] By 1986, it had been rerouted, running along the Westbank Expressway frontage roads to Stumpf Boulevard and turning north on Stumpf and Franklin Avenue to end at Burmaster Street (LA 428).[3] The former LA 23 to 4th Street in downtown Gretna became an extension of LA 18, while the three blocks beyond to the ferry (and Jackson Avenue in New Orleans) are now unnumbered.
[edit] References
- ^ Louisiana State Highway Log
- ^ 1975 AAA Triptik map of New Orleans
- ^ Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, 1986 Official Highway Map
 |
This Southern United States road or road transport-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
