Rampart Streetcar Line Rolling Soon

Local City and State officials break ground in a ceremony Wednesday, January 28, 2015, to commemorate the beginning of construction on the Rampart Streetcar Line. 

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu gives a speech at the ground breaking ceremony for the Regional Transit Authority's Rampart Streetcar Line Wednesday, January 28, 2015. 

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu gives a speech at the ground breaking ceremony for the Regional Transit Authority's Rampart Streetcar Line Wednesday, January 28, 2015. 

Infinity Engineering Consultants' Principal Raoul V. Chauvin, III, left, and Civil Engineer Michael Riviere stand before the ceremonial shovel at the Rampart Streetcar Line ground breaking ceremony on January 28, 2015. 

Regional Transit Authority CEO Justin Augustine, from left, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, and Infinity Engineering Consultants, LLC Principal Raoul V. Chauvin, III celebrate the ground breaking of the Rampart Streetcar Line at the ceremony on January 28, 2015. 

Rampart Streetcar Line Ground Breaking

The Tremé Brass Band leads a second line to the ground breaking ceremony for the Rampart Streetcar Line on january 28, 2015. 

Ceremonial shovels and hard hats line the neutral ground on Rampart Street for the ground breaking ceremony of the Rampart Streetcar Line expansion on January 28, 2015.

Ceremonial shovels and hard hats line the neutral ground on Rampart Street for the ground breaking ceremony of the Rampart Streetcar Line expansion on January 28, 2015.

A member of the Tremé Brass Band is silhouetted against the sun as the band plays at the Rampart Streetcar Line ground breaking ceremony on January 28, 2015.

Wednesday afternoon ushered in yet another milestone for the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) with the groundbreaking ceremony for the much anticipated Rampart Streetcar Line. The Tremé Brass Band set the mood as City and State officials spoke to a crowd of the advantages and possibilities the streetcar line will bring to the area. 

Infinity Engineering Consultants, LLC is proud to have been a part of the design team for the $41.5 million project that will bring a 1.6 mile streetcar line from Canal Street along Rampart Street and St. Claude Avenue to Elysian Fields Avenue. Our team  was tasked with producing construction drawings, record specifications, and identification of utility conflict and design. The streetcar is expected to roll by September 2016.