NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans officials are marking the return of two-way traffic to a major city thoroughfare.
Canal Street had been closed both ways for more than a year at the site of the October 2019 collapse of a hotel under construction at the edge of the French Quarter. Traffic flowing toward the Mississippi River returned four months ago.
At a Wednesday news conference, Mayor LaToya Cantrell celebrated the recent reopening of a lane bound away from the river, toward Lake Pontchartrain.
Clearing the area where three workers died has been a process complicated by litigation, an active 2020 hurricane season, and the coronavirus pandemic.
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