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Manned Barricade Locations for Tropical Storm Barry

by Gary S. Scheets

July 13, 2019

Categories: Announcement, On Duty

Topics: First District, Fourth District, Seventh District, Third District

Manned Barricade Locations for Tropical Storm Barry

The following is a list of barricade locations for Tropical Storm Barry:

  • The Franklin Avenue exit at I-610 east will close at 8 p.m.
  • The Elysian Fields exit at I-610 west will close at 8 p.m.

The following exit ramps will close on an as needed basis. Officers will be assigned to these locations. They will monitor conditions and erect barricades when streets become impassable.

1st District

  • North Carrollton Avenue (barricades at I-10 entry (Pontchartrain Expressway) and Tulane Avenue)

3rd District

  • City Park & Pontchartrain Expressway (barricades on both sides of Pontchartrain Expressway)  
  • Canal Boulevard (barricades at Homedale Street and Navarre Avenue)
  • Marconi (barricades at Florida Avenue and Zachary Taylor Drive)
  • St. Bernard Avenue (barricades at I-610 East exit and Florida Avenue)
  • Paris Avenue (barricades at Pleasure Street and Gentilly Boulevard)
  • Gentilly (barricades at Bruxelles (I-10 Entrance ramp) and Republic Street)
  • Franklin Avenue (barricades at I-10 West exit and Abundance Street)
  • Gentilly Boulevard (barricades at Peoples Avenue and Old Gentilly Road)
  • Press Street (barricades at Leon C. Simon Drive and Hayne Boulevard)
  • Broad Street (barricades at Treasure Street and A.P. Tureaud Avenue)
  • I-610 underpass (in City Park by the new Children’s Museum) (barricades at Golf Drive and Zachary Taylor Drive)

4th District

  • General De Gaulle Drive (barricades at Marr Avenue and Hendee Street)
  • General De Gaulle (barricades at Woodland Drive)  

7th District

  • Dowman Road (barricades at Haynes Boulevard and Star & Stripes Boulevard)