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- Road Trip #517 - Louisiana Highway 45, Part 2 - Jean Lafitte
Part 2 of our trip down Louisiana Highway 45, we begin in Crown Point, as LA-45 makes a series of turns, and joins LA-3134, Leo Kerner Parkway, to cross Bayou Barataria and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway into the Town of Jean Lafitte. LA-45 then follows the bayou down to a census designated area south of Jean Lafitte, called simply, Lafitte.
Louisiana Highway 45 (LA 45) is a state highway located in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. It runs 22.08 miles (35.53 km) in a north-south direction from a dead end at Bayou Barataria in Lafitte to a junction with LA 18 in Marrero.
The route connects Marrero, an unincorporated suburb of New Orleans, with several small communities located along Bayou Barataria, including the town of Jean Lafitte. It also provides access to the Barataria Unit of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, a protected area of environmental and cultural significance which, among its many functions, features walking trails through its vast swamps and marshes.
Roughly halfway along its route, LA 45 and LA 3134 share a high-level bridge across a section of Bayou Barataria that serves as a link in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Near its northern terminus, LA 45 has an interchange with U.S. Highway 90 Business (US 90 Bus.), an elevated freeway traversing the communities of Jefferson Parish located on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
LA 45 was designated in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering from a portion of former State Route 30. Around 1980, a nine-mile (14 km) section of the route between Crown Point and Estelle was bypassed for through traffic in favor of the newly constructed LA 3134 (Leo Kerner/Lafitte Parkway, originally Lafitte-Larose Highway). In the future, most of this mileage is proposed to be eliminated from the state highway system by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (La DOTD).
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i love so much this video im from thailand i love countryside in america
13:57 reminds me of Madisonville flooding-cool drive!
That large bridge crosses the intracoastal canal.
Very sadly, the Jean Lafitte and Lafitte area were devastated by Hurricane Ida on 8/29/2021. Massive flooding and wind damage. The 302 bridge over Bayou Barataria in Lafitte across from the Piggly Wiggly was damaged by a runaway barge and is impassable. The only way to Hwy 3257 across the bayou is by boat. All roads were under water.
At the end on the right is my Dads house. I feel like I just went home. But I can't get out the car and go check on him. Y'all pray for all the stubborn old Cajuns who didn't leave for hurricane Ida.
Have you had any contact with him since the storm?
Just looked at Goose Bayou on Google maps. It's huge and can easily hold boats. I always thought bayous were similar to drainage ditches (they are, in Tennesee)
@terrell mack Hi Terrell! I just bookmarked your channel. I like Mississippi, so am up to watching some videos about Mississippi.
Bayou is pretty much synonymous with river. Bayou Barataria carries huge ships.
They have to fix that flooding issues down there
There's not really anything to fix. It's below sea level. People have been there for 300+ years, and just know how to deal with it.
504RoadTrips I don’t mean any harm. I just don’t want to see anything bad happen in the future.
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Cajuns rarely ever leave...
They just take it and roll with it.
Seems like a massive problem having to leave the way you came in an emergency.
Who's Leaving? These folks are crazy. Leaving?
@@TheDustysix Most of them evacuated Lafitte this week in advance of Hurricane Ida. Lafitte was devastated by the hurricane.