U.S. Route 90 Business (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Infobox LA Highway
type=US Business
alternate_name=Westbank Expressways (Interstate 910)
route=90
length_mi=13.87
length_ref= [http://www.southeastroads.com/la_us_highways.html Louisiana U.S. Highway Log] ]
length_round=2
length_notes=I-910: 9.70 [ [http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/routefinder/table2.htm Auxiliary Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways as of October 31, 2002] ] mi (15.61 km)
formed=1926 (as US 90 BUS) [ [http://www.us-highways.com/la-us.html List of US LA Highways] ]
1999 (as I-910) [http://www.interstate-guide.com/i-910_la.html]
dir1=West
from=jct|state=LA|US|90 near Westwego
dir2=East
to=Jct|state=LA|I|10|US|90 in New Orleans
previous_type=LA
previous_route=89
next_type=LA
next_route=91
spur_type=US
spur_of=90
browse=

U.S. Highway 90 Business (officially U.S. Highway 90-Z) is a business route of U.S. Highway 90 in and near New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Unlike a standard business route, it is built to higher standards than the segment of U.S. 90 that it parallels, with over half built to freeway standards and designated (but not signed as) Interstate 910. It crosses the Mississippi River on the Crescent City Connection (tolled eastbound) and runs along the (Westbank Expressway/Sheriff Harry Lee Memorial Expressway) west of the bridge and part of the Pontchartrain Expressway in the New Orleans Central Business District. On the other hand, U.S. 90 runs along surface streets through New Orleans, crossing the Mississippi on the older and narrower Huey P. Long Bridge.

Future

U.S. 90 Business is planned to become part of the Interstate 49 extension from Lafayette to New Orleans; the Interstate 910 designation is a temporary one. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) approved the extension of I-49 (as Future I-49) to Interstate 310 west of New Orleans on November 6, 1998, [American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, [http://cms.transportation.org/sites/route/docs/1998-USRN_Cmte.pdf Report of the Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering To the Standing Committee on Highways] , Saturday, November 7, 1998 (PDF)] and on October 1, 1999 the extension from I-310 to I-10 in New Orleans was approved. AASHTO requested "that Louisiana submit an application to AASHTO in accordance with the Federal Highway Administration's letter dated September 22, 1999 to sign the part of the route from I-10 in New Orleans to Ames Boulevard in Marrero as Interstate 910." [American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, [http://cms.transportation.org/sites/route/docs/1999-USRN_Cmte.pdf Report of the Special Committee on Route Numbering to the Standing Committee on Highways] , Saturday, October 2, 1999 (PDF)] However, Louisiana did not follow through, and the road is not signed as I-910, nor considered I-910 by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, which prominently calls it Future I-49. [Richard Sine, [http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/msg/9aa9b6f54c90b720?hl=en& I-910 may pave path in N.O.] , New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 1, 2000] [Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, [http://www.dotd.state.la.us/maps/2004_Official_Louisiana_Highway_Map.PDF 2004 Official Highway Map of Louisiana] (PDF)]

The freeway-standard Westbank Expressway extends from a temporary end between Westwood Drive and Ames Boulevard in Marrero to the Crescent City Connection in New Orleans. From the end of the freeway, past Westwood Drive and many other at-grade intersections, to the end of U.S. 90 Business at U.S. 90, the future frontage roads are known as the Westbank Expressway. The Expressway takes its name from its location, the West Bank of the Mississippi River.

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