Many people ask me whether an R.S. 2477 road, created in the last 1800’s, is restricted to the width, course and use that created it. An R.S. 2477 road is just like any other road created by legislative act. It can be widened and improved to accommodate new and additional traffic not only before October 22, 1976 (when R.S. 2477 was repealed) but after that date as well. The most famous example…