Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development

DOTD - Mon May 06, 2019

Louisiana Signs Contract for Air Force Base Access Road

Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Shawn Wilson announced April 24 another major milestone in the project to build a new access road into Barksdale Air Force Base from the I-20/I-220 interchange in Bossier Parish....

Louisiana DOTD - Mon March 11, 2019

James Construction Wins $71M Contract for La. Interchange

Shawn Wilson, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, announced Feb. 5 the selection of the design-build contractor for the I-20/I-220 Interchange improvement project into Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier Parish....

Gov. Edwards’ Office - Mon October 08, 2018

Louisiana Governor Signs Federal Bond Agreement To Tackle Backlog of Infrastructure Projects

Gov. John Bel Edwards recently announced that the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Shawn Wilson joined Federal Highway Administration Division Administrator Wes Bollinger to sign a memorandum of agreement in regard to an approved federal bond granted to the state earlier this year....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Fri February 09, 2018

Gilchrist Works on Its Portion of DOTD's I-10

Crews from Gilchrist Construction Company LLC have been working steadily on the $54.7 million Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) project along 2.7 mi. of Interstate I-10 to reconstruct and widen the four-lane (two lanes in each direction) section of highway....

Tue January 02, 2018

Louisiana DOTD Breaks Ground on Hwy 42 Widening

​Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Shawn Wilson joined Gov. John Bel Edwards and other state and local officials Nov. 30 to officially launch a project to widen state highway 42 in Ascension Parish southeast of Baton Rouge....

Mon November 06, 2017

DOTD Sees $60.8M for Road Projects

Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) recently received $60.8 million in additional federal funds for highway projects. The department qualified for the additional federal funds after successfully allocating the full amount of its available federal funding to construction projects for the 2016 to 17 federal fiscal year....

Mon August 28, 2017

DOTD Signs Design-Build Contract to Widen Interstate-10

Sec. Shawn D. Wilson, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), announced that the multi-million dollar, design-build contract to widen Interstate-10 from four to six lanes east of Highland Road to LA 73 has been signed, and the notice to proceed has been issued....