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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 173
BY REPRESENTATIVE HODGES
A RESOLUTION
Urges and requests the Department of Transportation and Development to study adding
lanes along LA 64 from LA 16 to Greenwell Springs Road.
WHEREAS, the Department of Transportation and Development has completed
construction of a four-lane bridge to replace the two-lane LA 64 Amite River Bridge at
Magnolia; and
WHEREAS, the bridge has two twelve-foot lanes in each direction and ten-foot
outside shoulders; and
WHEREAS, nearly twenty-six thousand drivers cross the bridge each day; and
WHEREAS, the community is grateful for the new bridge, it is unfortunate that a
bottlenecking effect has taken place as the roads approaching the bridge are only two lanes;
and
WHEREAS, adding lanes along LA 64 from LA 16 to Greenwell Springs Road
would alleviate much of this bottlenecking effect.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby urge and request that the Department of Transportation
and Development study the feasibility of adding lanes along LA 64 from LA 16 to Greenwell
Springs Road.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this study be conducted by the department prior
to December 31, 2012, and a report of its findings be presented to the legislature thirty days
prior to the convening of the 2013 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to the secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES