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The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, [2] is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38.35 km) long.
Lake Pontchartrain from southbound causeway entrance Lake Pontchartrain's north shore at Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville, Louisiana, in 2004. Lake Pontchartrain (/ ˈ p ɒ n tʃ ə t r eɪ n / PON-chə-trayn; [1] French: Lac Pontchartrain) is an estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States.
The I-10 Twin Span Bridge, officially known as the Frank Davis "Naturally N'Awlins" Memorial Bridge, a nearly 5.5-mile (8.9 km) causeway near New Orleans. It consists of two parallel trestle bridges. These parallel bridges cross the eastern end of Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana from New Orleans to Slidell.
St. Tammany Parish Fire District #4, in an update around 9:50 a.m. Tuesday, had said fire units were dealing with an 11-vehicle crash on the southbound span of the Causeway Bridge. "As a result ...
Footage from a local fire department shows the long line of stalled or crashed cars on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway on the morning of Dec. 17, 2024. (St. Tammany Parish Fire) The world's ...
The Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission (GNOEC), commonly called The Causeway Commission, is an entity responsible for the maintenance, construction, and enforcement of safety laws on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. It is headquartered in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans.
The Covington Bypass was conceived in the mid-1950s as part of a series of highway improvements associated with the construction of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. [2] The bypass was to provide an alternate route around the downtown area for traffic on U.S. 190 and LA 25. [2]
I-12, serving as a bypass of New Orleans around the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, was not added until October 17, 1957. At the time, I-10 and I-59 split in eastern New Orleans, with I-59 following present I-10 and I-10 following the US 90 corridor into Mississippi, and so I-12 only ran to I-59 north of Slidell. [ 8 ]