Louisiana Highway 98
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Route of LA 98 highlighted in red
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| Maintained by Louisiana DOTD | ||||
| Length: | 47.756 mi (76.856 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1955 renumbering – present | |||
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| West end: |
  LA 97 / LA 1123 west of Iota
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| East end: | Lafayette–St. Martin parish line east of Carencro | |||
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| Parishes: | Acadia, Lafayette | |||
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Louisiana Highway 98 (LA 98) is a state highway located in southern Louisiana. It runs 47.76 miles (76.86 km) in an east–west direction from the junction of LA 97 and LA 1123 west of Iota to the Lafayette–St. Martin parish line east of Carencro.
The route traverses the rural area north of and parallel to Interstate 10 (I-10) and U.S. Highway 90 (US 90) between Jennings and Lafayette. It briefly dips southward into the city of Rayne and intersects I-10 by way of a concurrency with LA 35. Otherwise, LA 98 largely passes through small rural communities, such as Iota, Maxie, Roberts Cove, and Mire. Near the east end of its route, LA 98 cuts between the adjacent cities of Lafayette and Carencro.
LA 98 was designated in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering from portions of ten former routes. It thus takes a segmented and serpentine path through much of Acadia Parish. In Lafayette Parish, however, the route was almost entirely relocated onto the straight alignment of Gloria Switch Road around 1990. Rather the terminating in the center of Carencro, the current route passes through an interchange with I-49/US 167 south of town and extends eastward to what was formerly LA 354. Most of LA 98 is planned to be eliminated from the state highway system as part of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development's (La DOTD) Road Transfer Program.
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