Causeway police are cracking down on speeders, careless drivers and other offenders on the 24-mile bridge crossing Lake Pontchartrain in the wake of two recent fatal accidents in which vehicles went off the bridge and into the water.
The bridge's general manager tells The Times-Picayune that enforcement has really been ratcheted up.
Over a four-day period during Thanksgiving week, officers wrote 25 percent more tickets than normal. Two-thirds were for speeding, with most motorists driving from the high 60s to 75 miles per hour on the bridge, which has a 65 mile per hour limit.
The enhanced enforcement follows three accidents this year, including two last month, in which vehicles plunged off the southbound span. Two of the accidents were fatal.