Transportation Project Requests
Surface Transportation Reauthorization Project Requests

Replacement of Almonaster Bridge (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $5,000,000.

Carrollton Avenue Improvement Project (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $2,000,000 – including rehabilitating the existing roadway and improving drainage.

City Park Road Trail Multimodal Improvements (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $6,000,000 – to complete plans, design, and engineering as well as reconstruct, rehabilitate and construct roads, trails, multimodal facilities, and related infrastructure in and around the Park’s Tri-Centennial Place Roadway and the Roosevelt street, trail, and foot mall.

Congress Drive Improvement Project (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $3,500,000 – including basic street rehabilitation, resurfacing, and related drainage.

Convention Center Riverfront Street Car Loop (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $5,000,000 – for streetcar service connecting Canal Streetcar line to the existing Riverfront Streetcar Line. The line will run along Convention Center Blvd., travel on Tchoupitoulas and Poydras Street to Henderson Street. Funding would provide NEPA Environmental review design, and construct track, station stops, supporting electrification system and related other infrastructure.

Harvey Boulevard Extension (Jefferson Parish, Louisiana) $15,000,000 – to provide east-west access on the West Bank.

I-49 South / Westbank Expressway to US90 (Louisiana) $15,000,000 – to construct extension of Westbank Expressway (Future 1-49) to US90.

Michoud Boulevard Improvement Project (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $3,200,000—for reconstruction activities of Michoud Boulevard between I-10 and Lake Forest Boulevard in Orleans Parish.

Napoleon Intermodal Rail Facility (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $5,000,000 – to engineer, design and construct the facility.

Rampart Street Improvement Project (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $2,720,000—to rehabilitate Rampart Street – St. Claude Ave between Common Street and Elysian Fields Ave in Orleans Parish, LA.

St. Bernard Avenue Improvement Project (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $4,400,000—for reconstruction of St. Bernard Ave between Filmore Ave to Robert E. Lee in Orleans Parish.

St. Charles Avenue Improvement Project (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $6,500,000 – for construction activities on St. Charles Avenue from Calliope Street to Napoleon Ave in Orleans Parish, LA.

The French Quarter Street Car Loop (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $15,000,000 – to conduct NEPA Environmental Review, design, and construction of New Orleans French Quarter/Press Street Streetcar Loop.

The Union Passenger Terminal Intermodal Facility (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $11,336,000—fund the remaining work that must be done at the facility to safely meet the new challenges facing the terminal and to make the facility a more energy efficient and green technology facility.

UPT Howard Avenue Street Car Loop (New Orleans, Louisiana) – $5,000,000—Conduct NEPA Environmental Review, design, and construction of the New Orleans UPT/Howard Avenue Streetcar Loop.