The Interstate 10 closure spanned nearly the entire state, ending west of the Mississippi state line east of New Orleans. Meanwhile, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) had deployed crews traveling in both directions to treat the interstate's surfaces in an effort to restore normal traffic flow.
Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas state line to as far east as Sorrento or Gramercy could be fully open to traffic in both directions at some point Thursday afternoon, Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Joe Donahue said.
Truckers who move goods across hundreds of miles of Louisiana highway must make their own calculus in the face of a snowstorm.
Louisiana DOTD officials have closed a large part of interstate 10 due to the icy conditions on the road. DOTD says that I-10 is closed in both directions from the Louisiana-Texas state line to Baton Rouge.
Louisiana state and local officials hope to open to the rest of Interstate 10 Friday evening, days after it was shut down due to accumulating ice following a rare snow storm, the New Orleans ...
The latest closure means that nearly three-quarters of Louisiana’s portion of the coast-to-coast highway is shut. A rare winter storm brought record snowfall to the state on Tuesday.
State officials also reopened I-10 eastbound at U.S. 61 in Ascension Parish. According to Louisiana's 511 traffic website, all parts of Interstate 10 were open in the state as of 4 p.m. Earlier ...
(The Center Square) – After a historic winter storm hit the Interstate 10 corridor on Tuesday, parts of the vital east-west artery remain closed due to icy road conditions in both Louisiana and ...
A significant portion of I-10 is closed in both directions in Louisiana west of Baton Rouge to the Texas border.
A winter storm swept across south Louisiana on Tuesday morning, covering New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette in a layer of snow.
Interstate 10 reopened to westbound traffic from I-49 ... on a 24-hour schedule to prepare for and respond to the rare Louisiana snowstorm that brought blizzard conditions Tuesday.
After a commercial vehicle went into the water, the westbound lanes of the I-10 Twin Span was closed on Tuesday afternoon.