Louisiana Highway 613-2
| Louisiana Highway 613-2 | |
|---|---|
| Location: | New Orleans |
| Length: | 3.7 mi (6.0 km) |
| Existed: | 1955–c. 1957 |
From the south, LA 613-2 began at an intersection with South Carrollton Avenue and proceeded north along Pontchartrain Boulevard to N.O. Hammond Highway at West End. Along the way it crossed underneath U.S. 61 (Airline Highway) and intersected LA 611-9 (Metairie Road).
LA 613-2 was a four-lane, divided highway from its southern terminus to LA 611-9, where it narrowed to an undivided, two-lane highway for the remainder of its route.
LA 613-2 was part of State Route 33 in pre-1955 Louisiana Highway system and, like LA 613-1, was part of the never-completed New Orleans-Hammond Lakeshore Highway. In the 1960s, I-10 (Pontchartrain Expressway) was constructed alongside Pontchartrain Boulevard, leaving it discontinuous in several places and no longer intersecting with South Carrollton Avenue.
The entire highway was in New Orleans, Orleans Parish.
| Mile | km | Destinations | Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | 0.0 | South Carrollton Avenue | Southern terminus | |||||
| 1.0 | 1.6 | LA 611-9 (Metairie Road) | Eastern terminus of LA 611-9 | |||||
| 3.7 | 6.0 | LA 613-1 (N.O. Hammond Highway, Pontchartrain Boulevard) | Northern terminus | |||||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | ||||||||
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