In New Orleans East, what should be a quick walk to the bus stop or grocery store often feels like running a gauntlet. Residents say decades of missing sidewalks, broken streetlights and bare-bones bus stops have turned routine errands along the I-10 service road into risky trips, with cars whipping by in near darkness. The city has moved into preliminary design on a scaled-back Connecting New Orleans East plan, but neighbors say the changes on paper still fall short of the safety fixes they need on the ground.
Scaled-Back Plan Enters Design Phase
City officials say they have roughly $2.2 million available to kick off design work, even after losing about $58.2 million in federal grants that would have funded three pedestrian bridges, shared vehicle…..