By Central Louisiana News |
Jan 30, 2024
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) has announced that the Louisiana Legislature’s Joint Transportation Committee has approved a plan to build a new I-10 bridge over the Calcasieu River in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The project will be funded with $150 million from Cassidy’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)."This was one of the projects I was thinking of when I was working on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill," said Dr. Cassidy. He expressed his satisfaction with the approval, stating, "Southwest Louisiana needed to replace the Calcasieu River Bridge, which...