Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is a causeway road in USA.
- Type: Causeway
- Country: USA
- Length: 38.6 km
- Opened: 1956
Overview
Two parallel bridges across Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans, the 1956 southbound span holding records as the longest bridge over water in the world for decades. On foggy days drivers lose sight of land entirely. 38.6 km of straight pile driving.
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