Bridges come down much faster than they go up. Over the past month, demolition of the Belle Chasse Bridge has seen the removal of the bridge deck, the counterweights, motors, and cables that operated the 60-year-old lift bridge. The concrete approach on the south side is nearly gone as well.
Residents’ outcries regarding the botched implementation of tolling on the Belle Chasse Bridge have not fallen on deaf ears as the issue has been repeatedly discussed in Baton Rouge during the legislative session.
Senator Pat Connick, who chairs the Senate Transportation Committee, and Representative Jacob Braud, who serves on the House Transportation Committee, have used the meetings to highlight …
