Places Named For Douglas Mac Arthur - Roads and Bridges

Roads and Bridges

• MacArthur Road in Trumbull, Connecticut.

• MacArthur Road in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

• Douglas McArthur Drive in Starkville, Mississippi.

• Douglas MacArthur Road in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

• The MacArthur Bridge in Detroit, Michigan runs across the Detroit River to Belle Isle Park.

• There are two bridges and one road named after MacArthur in Taiwan, the MacArthur Highway (麥克阿瑟公路), becoming one of the only three foreigners who have had a landmark named after them, the other two being Franklin Roosevelt and George Leslie Mackay. The road is located in Taipei, although it is renamed now. The two bridges remain.

• MacArthur Boulevard is a major highway in Orange County, California. It runs east of the Santa Ana River to the Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach. This road is also the access to John Wayne Airport.

• Though there is a deviation in the spelling, McArthur Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri is named after General MacArthur. It runs from Goodfellow Boulevard to Darby Street.

• A street, MacArthur Boulevard, a section of Interstate 580 and a major freeway interchange in Oakland, California, are named after him. A local BART rapid transit station in Oakland is named after its location atop the street and in the freeway median. The tunnel south of the Golden Gate Bridge on Highway 1 where it passes through the Presidio in San Francisco is named after him.

• MacArthur Drive, is an 8-mile (13 km) long multilane bypass around the western side of Alexandria, Louisiana. Throughout, it bears US 71 and in places the additional road numbers for US 165, US 167, and LA 28. Until the 1992 closure of England Air Force Base, MacArthur Drive helped connect it with Camp Beauregard, which lies northeast of Alexandria and is a major facility for the Louisiana National Guard.

• MacArthur Boulevard is a major street in the Algiers section of New Orleans, Louisiana.

• MacArhur Boulevard is a major street in Irving, Texas that runs north to Lewisville, Texas ending at Vista Ridge Mall through Valley Ranch and Las Colinas communities in Irving. It runs by North Lake College and Irving High School where it ends in Grand Prairie to the south.

• MacArthur Drive is a major thoroughfare in the northwestern part of North Little Rock, Arkansas and is also known as Arkansas Highway 365.

• MacArthur Boulevard is a major highway in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and terminates at the Federal Aviation Administration training academy there.

• The MacArthur Causeway is a six lane highway that links downtown Miami, Florida with the city of Miami Beach. The roadway (State Road A1A) crosses the Biscayne Bay south of the Venetian Causeway and north of the Port of Miami.

• An 18-mile (29 km) section of Interstate 580 running between and though the cities of Oakland, California and Castro Valley, California was dedicated to the Great General upon its completion. It is commonly referred to as the "MacArthur Freeway."

• The MacArthur Bridge in Manila, Philippines runs across the Pasig River.

• The highway that spans from Kalookan, Metro Manila to as far as La Union in the Philippines is named after General MacArthur. It is now aptly called "MacArthur Highway."

• MacArthur Highway in Davao region in Southern Philippines.

• MacArthur Avenue, Munster, Indiana, USA

• MacArthur Avenue, Canberra, Australia.