When Marrero moved to Belle Chasse seven years ago from B & B, it seemed like a perfect work action. The location of the new store on LA 23 was a quick parking lot for customers on the way to the world-famous fishing waters and the world-famous fishermen waters.
Then the new Belle Chasse Bridge came to the Gulf Intracoastal Water Road. In April 2021, a $ 170 million project, the closed road closure in the years after the years, caused transport nightmares. Constructed, the oppression of workers who tried to have a global global LNG plant in Port sulfur.
“It made it difficult for the arrival and stuff of the table,” said Austin, the owner of Austin, 33, B & B Take. “There are days we have got any customers.”
On Monday, Belle Chasse Bridge after a delay in 11 months, finally opened the traffic to flow more smoothly. But Belle Chasse business owners are still not excluded.
Drivers will soon have to pay to pass the bridge and what can mean for business owners customers.
“I’m just annoyed that I do not want to get on this side of the bridge who wanted to get people with me for lifetimes.”
The bridge has planned to open earlier, but developers, plenary infrastructure Belle Chasse, causing a higher decline to sink a higher, and the tiles that provide a smooth transition to the bridge should be changed.
The plenary received $ 10,000 worth of fines as a result of the fact that the bridge was not completely opened into traffic. In December, the department was expected to reach $ 3.5 million of these fines to the Donahue Secretary of Transport and Development Joe Donahue.
The first public-private partnership
The four-lane bridge replaces the vertical elevator bridge built in 1967 and a tunnel opened in 1955. Earlier, drivers used two south-south strips from two north-blue stripes in the tunnel and the old bridge.
The new bridge is the first public-private partnership for a large infrastructure project of Louisiana and is supported by about $ 100 million with the rest of the penary coated by the Federal Fund.
When the project was approved in 2019 by the state legislature, supporters, the rejection of the proposal, Louisiana, including the Civil-Private partnership, including the Mississippi River, said they will finance a new bridge along the Mississippi River.
Again, the project faced a loss of residents and business owners in plakets.
“It will hurt the business completely. Why you can clean your teeth, cut your hair, shopping, eat, eat, to eat,” Lt. Gov. Billy Nangesser, former board, said last week.
Dale Adams, the owner of Adams, said that due to the traffic jam, the work has been reduced by about 70%. During construction, he said that he saved the coffins into the pillow, but he did not expect the 11-month delay.
Adams, money offered a plenary plenary for DOTD delay, Belle Chasse should be redirected to business enterprises and residents. “You are punishing them, but we are the best of this,” he said.
The Joint Legal Committee for Transport will be the last words that the money is spent on the new law financed by the State Representative. Jacob Braud, R-Belle Chasse.
So far, careful plans to glue it where it is and passed his fingers that do not hit the work again.
“If it’s down, he intends to drag me with him.”
Toll prices
During the 30-year contract period, the plenary could collect $ 630 million in high levels or high levels of plenary forecasts in the Louisian legislative auditor.
The project spokeswood Press Secretaries said the Project Secretaries said that this is not charged yet, but will start in the next week or two years, after the completion of DOTD inspections, the project spokeswoman Abbe Ginn said.
The cost of most vehicles, 25 cents for board residents, $ 1.13 for residents with a geauxpass and $ 2.26 for anyone without a geauxpass. This The value is higher This boot trailer and larger trucks and van. Plenary can increase the most money based on the consumer prices index every year, although the board can increase only one percent for residents.
“Tolls will be collected with an electronic tolling system that does not require the suspension of vehicles in each direction,” said DOTD press release. “Residents and switches are encouraged to receive a geauxpass that offers low paid rates and speeds of payment.”
Township
Residents have three outdoor houses to register for a geauxpass on Belle Chasse Auditorium, 8398 LA 23, Belle Chasse, La 70037, La 70037.
- March 24: 12 PM-6 PM
- March 26: 9 AM-3 PM
- March 27: 9 AM-3 PM
