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Why will the iconic Lake Pontchartrain Causeway sign be demolished?”

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Why will the iconic Lake Pontchartrain Causeway sign be demolished?”

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But the 50-year-old landmarks will soon be demolished to make way for a floodwall at the entrance to the bridge as part of the Army Corps of Engineers’ 100-year flood-protection plan. Causeway employees are scrambling to find a place for their offices and computer servers. Drivers will lose the convenience of purchasing toll tags at the foot of the bridge. And the structures, though considered not much to look at, have some historic value as fixtures of the streetscape where Metairie meets the lake. Causeway General Manager Robert Lambert seems resigned to letting the building go. But he is determined to save the canopy, whose 1950s-era lettering has a certain retro appeal. The Times-Picayune Archive Toll booth at the Greater New Orleans Expressway, now known at the Causeway, when it opened in 1956. “It’s not always how pretty a building looks. I’ll admit it’s not pretty,” Lambert said.

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Iconic Causeway sign may be demolished New floodwall means end to arch, building By Cindy Chang Since the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opened in 1956, northbound drivers have entered the 24-mile bridge by passing under a canopy. Marking the start of a trip across the lake for generations of motorists, the canopy with the bridge’s name and the squat brick building nearby that houses the toll-tag office and the Causeway Police Department are as old as the bridge itself. But the 50-year-old landmarks will soon be demolished to make way for a floodwall at the entrance to the bridge as part of the Army Corps of Engineers’ 100-year flood-protection plan.

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