Funding for more Interstate 49 work between Shreveport and the Louisiana-Arkansas state line should be decided in the upcoming Louisiana legislature session, said Gard Wayt, executive director of the I-49 International Coalition. ‘The state of Louisiana is in the process right now of completing the funding for all of the earmarks weve received from the federal highway department’ Wayt said. He foresees the legislature funding 100 percent of the money needed to match the more than $200 million federally earmarked to the project. He said the Louisiana match for this has been a R...

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