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Article: Huey P. Bridge expansion in Louisiana moves to East Bank approaches
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- New Orleans CityBusiness
- Article date:
- August 17, 2009
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Commuters who frequent the Jefferson Highway overpass at
Clearview Parkway might want to come up with a new route to work.
Construction crews will demolish the overpass in late September
to make way for additional traffic coming from the Huey P. Long
Bridge, which is in the middle of a $1.2 billion widening project.
The Jefferson Highway overpass, which crosses the East Bank
approach to the bridge, will be replaced with a ground-level
roadway. The four-phase demolition will change the traffic
configuration around the East Bank foot of the bridge, although
officials have not determined what that configuration will be, said
Indira Parrales, spokeswoman for the Louisiana Transportation ...