The Crescent City Bridge

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The Crescent City Bridge

• Gabrielle Danos

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Location

• This bridge is a connector between the West
  Bank and the East Bank.
• It is in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• West Bank refers to the west side of the
  Mississippi River and East Bank refers to the
  east side of the river.

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History

• The first side was built in 1954 and opened in
  1958.
• The second was built in 1981,and finished by
  1988.
• Both of the sides were called the Greater New
  Orleans Bridge (12)
• A public contest in 1989 help the Louisiana
  legislature change the bridges names to the
  Crescent City Connection Bridges.

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The CCCD

• CCCD means Crescent City Connection Division
• The mission of the CCCD is to maintain and
  operate the bridge by issuing workers to take
  tolls, sell toll tags, and hire and pay the
  Bridge Police.

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What is the Bridge Police??

• The bridge police is a special force of police
  officers who hand out traffic tickets in the
  event of speeding, drunk driving, (etc.)
• They are called the bridge police because they do
  not work for Orleans Parish or Jefferson Parish
  they dont work for the east or west bank.

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The Effect of Hurricane Katrina

• On August 26, 2005 toll collections were stopped
  to let the evacuees get out in time.
• After the storm, Orleans Parish was severely
  flooded, and the only way to escape it was the
  Crescent City Connection.
• The following weeks, only emergency vehicles were
  allowed to pass through.
• In September, the bridge opened up again, but due
  to the threat of Hurricane Rita, the city shut
  down the bridge.

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Tolls

• From October 1, 1994 through December 31, 2012,
  tolls will be collected at a rate of 0.20 per
  axle for toll tag users, and 0.50 per axle for
  cash users.
• Prior to Hurricane Katrina, annual toll
  collections averaged 20 million.
• The Crescent City Connection became the first
  bridge to use computerized tolls. (Toll Tags.)

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Reference

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_City_Connect
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• http//images.google.com/images?qCrescentCityCo
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