The City’s procurement office has released a public bid to rehabilitate several closed bridges in New Orleans East. A recent inspection of the following bridges revealed that the structures are not safe for vehicular traffic. In response, the City closed the bridges to allow a licensed engineer to assess the conditions of each bridge and prepare engineering plans to repair the bridges. Safety is the City’s top priority. We are working to repair and reopen these bridges to vehicular traffic as soon as possible and to minimize traffic inconveniences.

The City’s construction contractor, Barriere Construction Co., LLC is currently 95 percent finished repaving the roadways within Joe W. Brown Memorial Park. The $1.2M construction project is scheduled to be completed at the end of August.

Command Construction Industries, LLC crews have currently completed 16 percent of the Read Boulevard West Group A project construction. This is the first of two projects planned in the neighborhood.

The project team is in the process of increasing the Read Boulevard East Group A project scope.  As a result, excavation tasks have been temporarily delayed so the sequencing schedule can be revised. The project remains at 45 percent completion. This is the first of six construction projects planned to improve the infrastructure in the Read Boulevard East neighborhood which spans Read Boulevard, I-10, I-510 and Chef Menteur Highway.

The Department of Public Works’ construction contractor, Hard Rock Construction, LLC, has now completed 80 percent of the first of three planned FEMA-funded construction projects in the Village de L’est neighborhood.