BATON ROUGE — The Washington Street exit on Interstate 10 will be permanently closed starting next week.
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development said the work will take place nightly between Wednesday, Feb. 18, and Sunday, Feb. 22.
The closure is intended to eliminate dangerous weaving and reduce bottlenecks that led to significant crashes and delays along the highway, particularly stemming from the high volume of vehicles merging from the Mississippi River Bridge…