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The City of New Orleans announced beginning on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. through Thursday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. the Department of Public Works (DPW) contractor, Barriere Construction Co., LLC will close Perdido Street between S. Galvez Street and S. Claiborne Avenue to perform mill and overlay operations.
The City of New Orleans announced that, effective immediately, the Department of Public Works (DPW) contractor, Boh Bros Construction Co., LLC, will begin temporary closures on various streets in the French Quarter to perform mill and overlay operations. Project completion is expected by February 2025, weather permitting. Construction will typically occur Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Streets will reopen each evening to vehicular traffic.
The City of New Orleans today announced that starting Saturday, December 6, 2024, the Department of Public Works (DPW), in close coordination with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD), will close the right lane of westbound I-10 between Gravier Street and the Broad Street Overpass. In addition, the I-10 on-ramp from Poydras Street will be closed from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
December 4, 2024 | From City of New Orleans
The City of New Orleans Department of Public Works (DPW), in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD) and the Sewage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO), today celebrated the completion of the $12 million roadway improvement project on Poydras Street bounded by Claiborne Ave. to Liberty Street and Convention Center Blvd to Loyola Ave.
November 26, 2024 | From City of New Orleans
The City of New Orleans announce that beginning on Monday, Nov. 25, from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the Department of Public Works (DPW) contractor, Boh Bros Construction Co., LLC will close Lincoln Beach Boulevard between Congress Drive and Press Drive to perform milling operations.
The City of New Orleans announce that the Department of Public Works will be proactively closing Howard Avenue (from Rampart to Loyola) and the right lane of Loyola Avenue (from Howard to Julia) until further notice.
November 20, 2024 | From City of New Orleans
The City of New Orleans announces today that the Downtown Development District and the City, through the Department of Public Works (DPW) and the Office of Resilience & Sustainability (ORS), have each been awarded grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Planning Program. Funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act/Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (IIJA/BIL), these two grants represent a collaborative step forward in addressing traffic safety challenges and creating safer streets for all New Orleanians.
November 19, 2024 | From City of New Orleans
The City of New Orleans today announced the acquisition of Cartegraph by OpenGov, a cloud-based asset management system that will serve as a centralized platform for managing City assets across multiple departments, including Public Works (DPW), Property Management, Parks and Parkways, Sanitation, and the New Orleans Recreation Development (NORD) Commission.
November 15, 2024 | From City of New Orleans
The City of New Orleans announced beginning Monday, Nov. 18, at 9 a.m., South Claiborne Avenue between Octavia Street and CalhounStreet will be reduced to two lanes of vehicular traffic to facilitate a series of roadway restoration tasks. This work will restore the cross section onto State Street Drive. Pedestrian travel near the intersection of South Claiborne Avenue and State Street Drive will be limited during this time.
Effective immediately, the City of New Orleans is announcing that the Department of Public Works (DPW) contractors Hard Rock Construction, LLC. is performing a lane closure on the 700 block of South Broad Street through Nov. 29 to accommodate the utility work as part of the Iberville, Tulane-Gravier, LGD, CBD Group A project. Enroute lake bound traffic will be rerouted to South Galvez Street.
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