Get the facts: The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development will hold a public meeting to discuss the new La. 1 toll bridge over Bayou Lafourche at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Denham Springs Bass Pro shops. DOTD officials will be on hand to talk about the bridge and the GeauxPass statewide toll collection system. The bridge near Port Fourchon and Grand Isle is set to open this summer and will replace the Leeville lift bridge. This is only public meeting about the bridge the DOTD plans to hold in the Capital Region.
Looking for answers: Two Louisiana congressmen have joined with the Republican Party’s ranking member on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, U.S. Rep. John L. Mica, R-Fla., in seeking a government review of the number of FEMA Public Assistance projects still awaiting federal funds almost four years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Anh “Joseph” Cao and Steve Scalise, two New Orleans-area Republicans, joined with Mica in asking that the Inspector General conduct a review of the number, scope and value of pending projects related to the storms. Scalise says by getting the inspector general involved there can finally be a clear picture of how many projects are “stuck in the red tape of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s bureaucracy.”
