Peters Road Environmental Assessment
BKI prepared an environmental assessment and conceptual engineering design for the five-mile extension of Peters Road (LA Hwy. 3017). This is one of the area's main arterial streets connecting Engineers Road in Plaquemines Parish to 4th Street (LA Hwy 18) in Jefferson Parish west of the City of Gretna. The corridor provides access to the east bank of the Harvey canal, which is home to the core of the maritime industrial complex in the region. It functions as a connector to the main east-west routes including the West Bank Expressway (US Hwy 90B and future I-49 corridor) and Lapalco Blvd., a major arterial on the Jefferson Parish federal aid highway network. The purpose of the EA was to examine all feasible alternatives that would provide improved access and connection between Peters Road and LA Hwy 23. The preferred alternative will extend Peters Road south and west from Bayou Barataria to LA Hwy 23, west of the Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base (NAS/JRB New Orleans) in Belle chasse, Louisiana. The project includes a high-rise bridge crossing of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.