UPDATE: According to DOTD, the Estherwood Pontoon Bridge was opened Thursday night around 8 p.m. The 18-wheeler driver, was driving through the bridge when he apparently lost control of the vehicle.

It seems like any and all mitigation options are on the table for the L-train shutdown these days. First, there was the East River Skyway, a proposed aerial gondola connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, ...

UPDATE, 3/13/25, 11:15 a.m.: DOTD has announced that the Estherwood Pontoon Bridge is now open to the traveling public. UPDATE 3/12/25 6:55 p.m.: Acadia Parish officials confirmed DOTD will keep the ...

A floating bridge that can carry buses, cyclists and pedestrians across the East River is the latest proposal to make the impending L train shutdown more bearable for commuters. A group calling itself ...

Misty Breaux is a mother and community organizer in Butte La Rose. Every day she crosses the old pontoon bridge that spans Bayou La Rose. “When I see it, I’m crossing over this bridge onto my own ...

Photos courtesy L-ternative Bridge. A pontoon bridge is a floating bridge of sorts that relies on anchors to keep them in place. Shinn believes that an L-ternative Bridge, as he calls it, could be a ...

New York City’s L train carries about 400,000 passengers a day, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn and bringing passengers along 14th Street, under the East River, and through the neighborhoods of ...

NATO armored vehicles conduct a river crossing on a constructed pontoon bridge in Rukla, Lithuania on June 19, 2017 as part ...