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Woodland Bridge (Old)
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Honeymoon Bayou Bridge
Belle Chasse LA
Photo taken by Douglas Butler in June 2013
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND)
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BH Photo #289746
Description
This bridge was originally built in 1955 to provide a crossing for Woodland Highway, which was severed by a newly dug branch of the Intracoastal Waterway (also known as the Algiers Canal or Algiers Cutoff Canal) through the Algiers Lower Coast. It was officially part of Louisiana Highway 407. In the late 1960s, General De Gaulle Drive was extended from Holiday Drive to Woodland Drive to tie-in with the bridge. Portions of the approach roads on either side of the old bridge survive, including half of the original Y-junction at LA 406.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost vertical lift bridge over Intracoastal Waterway (Algiers Canal) on LA 407
- Location
- New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, and Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1955, replaced by a fixed high span in 1985
- Design
- Warren through truss vertical lift
- Also called
- Intracoastal Waterway Bridge
Algiers Cutoff Canal Bridge
Intracoastal Canal Bridge
Honeymoon Bayou Bridge
Algiers Lower Coast Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.90509, -89.98605 (decimal degrees)
29°54'18" N, 89°59'10" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/211663/3312017 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Chalmette
- Inventory number
- BH 62106 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 28, 2017: Updated by Roger Collins: Added names, changed year built, added description.
- August 9, 2014: New photo from Luke
- August 7, 2014: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- July 30, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler