 As part of the Louisiana Department of Highways' Proposed Five-Year Highway Construction Program in 1970, a second bridge was to be constructed to create a four-lane crossing of the river, but this never came to fruition.The first section of the Inner Loop Expressway was opened on July 27, 1977 and followed the current route of LA 526 from LA 511 near the bridge southwest to the present LA 3132, then northwest on the present LA 3132 to Linwood Avenue.The highway was extended west across US 171 (Mansfield Road) to Jewella Avenue in 1980, then west and north to I-20 in 1984.