Traffic Advisory: City to Resume Safety Improvements on Gentilly Boulevard

NEW ORLEANS - Beginning Tuesday, May 31, weather permitting, the City of New Orleans Department of Public Works contractor, Pavement Markings, will resume safety improvements including updates to the bicycle and pedestrian facilities along Gentilly Boulevard - from Grand Route St. John Street to St. Bernard Avenue. Work was delayed a week due to inclement weather. The improvements are expected to take approximately two weeks to complete.

This second phase of work on Gentilly Boulevard includes:

• Conversion of bike lanes to parking-protected bike lanes with flex post delineators
  • Lake bound from Laharpe to Onzaga streets
  • River bound from St. Bernard Avenue to Trafalgar Street
  • River bound from Derby to Grand Route St. John streets
• High-visibility crosswalks and bicycle crossings
  • Installation of a lane merge (to reduce from two travel lanes to one)
  • River-bound between Maurepas and Grand Route St. John streets

This project is a part of Mayor LaToya Cantrell's Moving New Orleans Bikes initiative to provide 75 miles of a connected bikeway network across the city. The project on Gentilly Boulevard is part of improvements planned for several corridors in the 7th Ward and surrounding neighborhoods.

City employees and volunteers have canvassed the area multiple times in advance of the start of the project. To learn more about Moving New Orleans Bikes, visit nola.gov/mnob or call 504-658-7623 (ROAD).

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