I-10 Bridge

Crossing the I-10 bridge requires concentration .... just to stay alive! There are a lot of people who refuse to cross it! People fly over that bridge. A state trooper has told me horror stories. I almost hate to bring your attention to something that may distract you while you cross the bridge; but this is cool.

  Long, long ago, back when all this was bayou and marsh, and pirogues passed for speedboats, the government men built a bridge over the Calcasieu from one end to the other and then, immediately, shut it down for repairs. It became a kind of demonstration project for bridge work, a place where contractors and engineers and transportation planners gathered each morning in hard hats, coffee cups in