Traffic Advisory: Leake Avenue between Prytania and Broadway Closed to Through Traffic for Construction Upgrades
 NEW ORLEANS — On Tuesday, Nov. 30, weather permitting, the City of New Orleans, Department of Public Works contractor, Hard Rock Construction, LLC, closed Leake Avenue to through traffic between Prytania and Broadway streets for approximately four weeks to complete water and sewer line improvements. Public safety is our priority; east-bound Leake Avenue traffic is being diverted to Prytania Street and west-bound Leake Avenue traffic is diverted at Broadway Street.
This work is part of the $11.9 million Black Pearl/East Carrollton Group A project, which began construction in August 2020. Click here to view a map of the project, which was designed by All South Consulting Engineers, LLC. The scope of work varies by block and includes the following:
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Patch Mill/Overlay: Repaving the asphalt roadway from curb to curb and repair damaged sidewalks;
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Patch Concrete: Removing damaged portions of the concrete roadway and replace it with new smooth concrete pavement;
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Incidental Road Repairs: Removing damaged portions of the asphalt roadway and replace it with new smooth pavement; and
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Non-Paving Incidentals: Repairing damaged sidewalks, driveway aprons and curbs within the public right-of-way.
The entire project is scheduled to be completed in spring 2022, weather permitting. In general, the contractor is working from 7 a.m. until sunset up to seven days per week.
Since May 2018, DPW has completed 99 projects with an estimated value of $282 million. Today, 69 projects are under construction with an estimated value of more than $600 million.
Questions about this project or RoadworkNOLA should be directed to 504.658.ROAD (7623) or roadwork@nola.gov.
To better serve our residents with more timely communication, RoadworkNOLA is in the process of building our distribution list to provide important construction updates via text messaging. To sign up, you can text ROADWORK to 77295 or go to ready.nola.gov/alerts to create a whole profile and select the “roadwork” alert list.
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