Construction Nears on Louisianas Cable-Stayed Mississippi River Span Will
The new bridge will cross the Mississippi River between St. Francisville and New Roads, northwest of Baton Rouge, with a 1,583-ft-long cable-stayed main span. It will surpass South Carolina’s Cooper River bridge’s 1,546-ft-long span. The 2.5-mile-long bridge with 12 miles of accompanying new road will connect State Route 10 and U.S. 61, replacing a ferry that now is the only direct route between Natchez, Miss., and Baton Rouge (ENR 12/12/05 p. 18).
PTG is joined by Vancouver, British Columbia-based Buckland & Taylor Ltd. as designer. The joint venture edged out two other teams for the state’s first major design-build job: American Bridge Co. and Bilfinger Berger with URS Corp.; and MRB Constructors, with Traylor Bros. Inc., Massman Construction Co., Gilbert Southern Corp. and HNTB Corp.