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Council accepts federal reconnecting-communities grant to add pedestrian and bike connections in New Orleans East
Summary
The City Council voted to accept a federal Reconnecting Communities grant to fund pedestrian and bicycle connections across service roads in New Orleans East, launching a five-year federally managed design-and-construction timeline and additional community engagement.
The New Orleans City Council voted to accept a federal Reconnecting Communities grant to build pedestrian and bicycle connections across service roads and interstates in New Orleans East, officials said.
City staff said the federally funded program includes community-driven design work, public meetings and a five-year performance period managed by Federal Highway Administration. “So we began, it was really important to the city to have a community engagement process when we were undertaking the feasibility study,” a city staff member said during the presentation.
The grant will fund a feasibility-to-construction sequence: an 18-month design and community engagement and bidding phase, with a September 2026 milestone that staff said is an obligation in the grant agreement; anticipated construction was described as fall 2026 through fall 2029. “The grant period is for a performance time of 5 years, and that is…
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