Canal Street

Canal Street is a major thoroughfare in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Forming the up-river boundary of the city's oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter (Vieux Carre), it formed the dividing line between the older French/Spanish Colonial era city and the newer American sector, the Central Business District. The name of the avenue comes from a planned canal which was to connect the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, but it was never constructed. The wide median which was to contain the canal was referred to by early inhabitants as the "neutral ground," due to the animosities amongst culturally distant residents on separate sides of the avenue. The term is still used by New Orleanians to refer to all street

One end of Canal Street is at the Mississippi River. Often called "The foot of Canal Street," at the riverfront the Canal Street Ferry connects to the old urban suburb of Algiers, Louisiana across the river. The other end is in Mid City New Orleans at a collection of cemeteries. The street has three lanes of traffic in both directions, with a pair of streetcar and bus lanes in the center. Canal Street is often said to be the widest roadway in America to be given the term street instead of a more prominent title of avenue or boulevard. Source wikipedia

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