Elon Musk’s plans to build a rocket launching complex in Vermilion Parish makes construction of the Lafayette Metropolitan Xpressway more urgent, several people said at the Expressway Commission’s meeting Tuesday.
The Lafayette Metropolitan Expressway Commission met Tuesday for the first time in months as it moves towards a new phase in the process of deciding where and how the western section of a loop around Lafayette Parish will be built.
In May, state legislation enabling the LMEC was amended to give the commimssion the authority to build roads in Vermilion and Iberia parishes…