(and the concurrent US 190 Bus.). This junction was initially located at Florida Boulevard and Acadian Thruway but was moved several blocks west in 1957 when the business route was re-routed onto the first completed portion of the Baton Rouge Expressway (now I-110). From there, LA 30 headed west on Florida Boulevard toward the Mississippi River then turned south onto Lafayette Street (northbound via 3rd Street) and made a zigzag at the Old State Capitol onto St. Phillip Street to reach Government Street. By 1960, the terminus had changed again as US 61/190 Bus. was moved onto its current route following River Road after improvements to that thoroughfare were completed. LA 30 now headed south on River Road from Florida Boulevard to Government Street rather than the one-way pair of Lafayette and 3rd Streets. The current terminus at Government Street was put into effect in recent years when this portion of River Road was transferred to the city of Baton Rouge. On the opposite end, LA 30 took over the portion of former Route 1 along the Mississippi River from Geismar to Darrow. Here, LA 22 crossed the river by ferry to Donaldsonville until 1965, a year after the Sunshine Bridge was completed. Subsequent realignments In the early 1960s, the current alignment of LA 30 was opened from LSU to Gardere Lane. The new roadway was an extension of Nicholson Drive, but it did not continue from the earlier Nicholson Drive Extension, which is still signed by that name in the field. It traveled instead on a new path alongside the Illinois Central Railroad line (now the Canadian National). This alignment was formerly labeled on the official state highway maps as Arlington Road but is now signed throughout East Baton Rouge Parish as part of Nicholson Drive. The old alignment following Highland Road became part of LA 42 until that designation was moved onto the newly constructed Burbank Drive in the 1990s. Around 1965, the new alignment of LA 30 was extended from Gardere Lane to LA 74 in St. Gabriel. The present highway designations absorbed the old route along Gardere Lane and the River Road at this time. The new alignment of LA 30 was completed to LA 44 in Gonzales by 1970. It tied in there with an existing road that was part of LA 431. The designation of LA 30 then replaced that of LA 431 eastward