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The I-10 Twin Span Bridge, a nearly 5.5-mile (8.9 km) causeway officially known as the Frank Davis "Naturally N'Awlins" Memorial Bridge, consists of two parallel trestle bridges. These parallel bridges cross the eastern end of Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana from New Orleans to Slidell .
Interstate 10 was closed in both directions near Michoud Boulevard after the early-morning crash, which happened before 5 a.m. CST Tuesday, according to NOLA.com, a local news site. Several
Multi-vehicle pile-up took place in low visibility on I-55 over Lake Pontchartrain Louisiana ‘superfog’ causes massive car crash killing seven and injuring dozens Skip to main content
The others are, in order from longest to shortest, the Manchac Swamp bridge on I-55, the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge on I-10, the Louisiana Highway 1 Bridge, the Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge on I-10, the Chacahoula Swamp Bridge on U.S. 90, the Lake Pontchartrain Twin Spans on I-10, and the LaBranche Wetlands Bridge on I-310.
Just two weeks after a superfog incident on 1-55, another fog blanket has led to the death of at least one person and injured others Tuesday on Interstate 10 in New Orleans.
US 11 immediately continues northeast onto the Maestri Bridge, a 4.8-mile-long (7.7 km) span across Lake Pontchartrain that parallels the I-10 Twin Span Bridge. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] About midway across the lake, US 11 crosses from Orleans Parish (coextensive with the city of New Orleans ) into St. Tammany Parish and begins to closely follow the east ...
As of 11 p.m. ET Wednesday, Francine's center was about 35 miles northwest of New Orleans, the hurricane center said. It was moving northeast at 16 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.
It passes through Lake Charles, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge, dips south of Lake Pontchartrain to serve the New Orleans metropolitan area, then crosses Lake Pontchartrain and leaves the state. On August 29, 2005, the I-10 Twin Span Bridge was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina, rendering it unusable.