Almonaster Road

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Almonaster is a four-lane divided road in New Orleans, Louisiana, named after Royal Notary Public Andres Almonaster y Rojas. It forms in the residential neighborhoods of the Upper Ninth Ward by branching off at a Y-type intersection with Franklin Avenue. Shortly afterwards, the elevates on an overpass to cross the Norfolk Southern Railroad and returns to ground level as it crosses the Industrial Canal on a the Almonaster Avenue Bridge, a bascule bridge that it shares with the CSX Railroad, proceeding into New Orleans East. The traffic lanes straddle the railroad bridge on either side; this is the only location where Almonaster becomes a two-lane road, albeit divided. It is also the last of the combination railroad/automobile moveable bridges to carry both types of traffic. It winds through the New Orleans Business and Industrial District (NO BID) parallel the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. It intersects with Interstate 510 before finally ending at the junction with U.S. Highway 90.