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March 2, 2010

Parking Meter Hours Expanding, Rates Rising In New Orleans | WDSU New Orleans

The City of New Orleans is moving forward with plans to extend parking meter hours and locations and to increase the hourly rates…

Jefferson Parish suspends red light cameras | Telegram.com

The Jefferson Parish Council has voted to suspend their red light traffic cameras after concerns were raised about the contract for them...

George Rodrigue's Blue Dog on Veterans is unveiled | NOLA.com

Massive Blue Dog sculpture at Vets and Severn is just one piece in a growing gallery

Rusty Costanza / The Times-Picayune
George Rodrigue's giant blue dog, er, red dog, is craned into place.

NOPD parking restrictions, traffic plan for New Year's holiday | wwltv.com | News

With thousands of revelers expected to pack the French Quarter and surrounding areas for New Year's Eve celebrations and the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day, New Orleans Police announced parking and travel restrictions and safety plans for the events.

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December 29, 2009

City of New Orleans raking in the dough from red light cameras | WWL - AM870

Red light cameras are apparently here to stay, especially since the oft-hated cameras are generating some big bucks for the City of New Orleans …

New Orleans Multimedia User Group December Meeting with Matt Toups on OpenStreetMap | NOMMUG

Matt Toups from the local New Orleans chapter of the OpenStreetMap project
will present this Tuesday evening, 8 December, at 6:30pm.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open source map of the world that is freely
available online. You can contribute to the map by adding in your favorite
places, as well as download the map data and create your own local map.
There are over 150,000 OpenStreetMap participants worldwide.

You can help! Join us in creating the best, most up to date map of New
Orleans (and the world), at http://www.openstreetmap.org

Web developers, consider OSM as a map data source for your web projects.
GIS pros and map fans, start editing the map immediately -- everything is
editable in "the free wiki world map", it is like the Wikipedia of map data.

We'll also be announcing the winner of this 6-month's software giveaway!

Time and Location, RSVP via:
http://groups.adobe.com/posts/26fad58b6d

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October 23, 2009

Attorney Pushes For Removal Of I-10 Stretch - New Orleans News Story | WDSU New Orleans

A stretch of Interstate 10 that runs above North Claiborne could be ripped out to usher in more green space and light rail transit.
Removing that two-mile stretch of the I-10 expressway is part of the city's masterplan, but officials said it would take hundreds of millions of dollars and several years.

Some worried Causeway construction may hurt business | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | wwltv.com

Work at the Veterans-Causeway interchange is expected to take four months. Merchants who own businesses in the area are concerned with traffic delays and detours, worried it could cost them shoppers at a most critical time.

State Rep wants to end tolls on Crescent City Connection | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Local News | News and Weather for New Orleans | wwltv.com

Every day in New Orleans drivers shell out cash before heading across the Crescent City Connection bridge toward the East Bank. While the dollars keep flowing in, some state leaders say the math doesn't add up.

Louisiana bans oversize vehicles Saturday, Sept. 5, through Monday, Sept. 7 | thetowntalk.com | The Town Talk

All oversize and overweight vehicles are prohibited on state highways from Saturday, Sept. 5, through Monday, Sept. 7, in observance of Labor Day weekend travel.

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