(The Center Square) – A $128 million upgrade to Interstate 20 in Bossier City is on track to wrap up in March. The rebuilt stretch, built in the 1960s, handles roughly 70,000 to 100,000 vehicles daily.
The federal National Highway Performance Program funded 90% of the cost, while the state covered 10%.
Motorists’ “memory of I-20 through northwest Louisiana will no longer be of potholes,” said Erin Buchanan, public information officer for the Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development. “Instead, they’ll recall a pleasant trip that provided the modernized connectivity expected from an interstate system.”…