Review the information below regarding single lane closures on the Crescent City Connection and the HOV Lanes.

Road or Lane Status

UPDATE: REVISED: US 90B non-HOV Crescent City Connection, Orleans Parish, SP H.010636

Friday, January 13, 2017 9:45 AM

REVISED:

Eastbound & Westbound, US 90B non-HOV section (Crescent City Connection Bridge), Main Bridge Span Over Mississippi River, single lane closure of the non-HOV lanes nightly from January 14, 2017 thru March 15, 2017, from 7:30 PM to 5:30 am during each night for the Contractor to perform spot painting and structural repairs on the Crescent City Connection bridge

Emergency and permit vehicles shall STILL have access to this section of US 90B.

Detour Routes – No detour shall be established for this lane closure.

Alternate Routes – Huey P. Long Bridge

DOTD appreciates your patience and reminds you to please drive with caution through the construction/maintenance site and be on the lookout for work crews and their equipment.

Frederick L. Wetekamm, III, P.E.
District Area Engineer
New Orleans East
LADOTD
14101 Old Gentilly Road
New Orleans, LA 70129
504-253-6102

Road or Lane Status

US 90B HOV, Orleans Parish, SP H.010636

Friday, January 13, 2017 10:12 AM

Eastbound and Westbound, US 90B HOV (Crescent City Connection Bridge), Main Bridge Span Over Mississippi River, one HOV lane shall be continuously closed, beginning at 6:00 am January 14, 2017 and lasting until February 15, 2017. The Contractor will be placing temporary traffic control devices for this closure. The contractor will be installing/ removing rigging for painting and performing structural repairs and touch-up painting.

Emergency and permit vehicles shall STILL have access to this section of US 90B HOV.

Detour Routes – No detour shall be established for this lane closure.

Alternate Routes – US 90B non-HOV lanes

DOTD appreciates your patience and reminds you to please drive with caution through the construction/maintenance site and be on the lookout for work crews and their equipment.

Frederick L. Wetekamm, III, P.E.
District Area Engineer
New Orleans East
LADOTD
14101 Old Gentilly Road
New Orleans, LA 70129
504-253-6102

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) is committed to delivering transportation and public works systems that enhance the quality of life. In addition to more than 16,600 miles of roadway, including over 890 miles of interstate, DOTD supports the development of the state’s aviation, marine and rail infrastructures. Through this work, we are able to facilitate economic development, create job opportunities, improve vital evacuation routes, and make critical freight corridors safer and more efficient.

For more information, please visit www.dotd.la.gov, email dotdcs@la.gov, or call DOTD’s Customer Service Center at (225) 379-1232 or 1-877-4LADOTD (1-877-452-3683). Business hours are 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Beneath the Weight
www.BeneathTheWeight.org

Headline: Library Hosts Program to Change Eating Lifestyle

The Algiers Regional Library of the New Orleans Public Library will host “Beneath the Weight” on Wednesdays, November 2, 9, and 16. The program is a series of three weekly workshops. Each workshop starts at 5:30 pm and ends at 7:30 pm, and covers different topics each week. The workshops are free and open to the public.

Beneath the Weight is a new approach for weight-challenged individuals who are ready to change their current eating lifestyles and to end using food to manage stress, moods, and emotions. The designers of the program are a doctor of psychology and a certified clinical nutritionist.

Participants do short thinking activities. They use information from doing the activities to work with partners and groups of participants who help each other to find and maintain new eating lifestyles. The purpose of the workshops is to enable participants (1) to see how and why they currently eat high calorie, high carbohydrate, and large quantities of food; (2) to change mindlessness into mindfulness; (3) to create new coping strategies instead of using food in response to stresses, moods, and emotions; (4) to be good to oneself about food; (5) to get in touch with the right-weight person inside; and (6) to prepare for success to reach the weight that they say is the right weight. All conversation are positive, encouraging, and supportive.

There are no lectures, no diets, and no exercises. The presenter is SelfCare Health Initiatives, an all-volunteer non-profit organization.

Pre-registration (recommended) is available at http://beneaththeweight.org/next-sessions/. Also, for pre-registration, and for questions, contact the Algiers Regional Library at 504.596-2641, or contact Paul Waldman at manager@BeneathTheWeight.org and 504-220-2576.