Elevated

Toll collection started July 27 on the first phase of rebuilt southern Louisiana Route One (La1), a new fixedspan bridge over Bayou LaForche in Leeville, which was opened July 8.  The 22m, 73ft vertical clearance bridge is part of an eventual 30km, 19mi of largely elevated roadway to Port Fourchon/Grand Isle on the far southern end of the Mississippi delta.

Tampa Hillsboro (Toll) Expressway Authority (THEA) say they've settled with URS' insurer on $74,750,000 in compensation for flawed design work revealed in a collapse of their Selmon Expressway elevated ('El') while under construction in April 2004.

Tampa's Reversible Express Lanes (EL) are going great. And the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA), its owner, is being showered with awards for the innovative project. The three elevated lanes in the median of the established 2x2 lanes of the eastern part of the Selmon Crosstown Expressway have transformed the peak hour trips of people traveling to inner and downtown Tampa. Queueing and creep made the ten