Crews are tearing up sections of the brand new road surface on North Rampart Street between Esplanade and Canal.
This is the same stretch of road, torn up for nearly two years as the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority built its new Rampart-St. Claude streetcar line.
Yolanda McGowan is one of many drivers caught in construction-related traffic on Tuesday.
"Already getting stuck," McGowan said. "Trying to figure out what's going on. I thought it was all over, but I see that it's not, disappointed."
As part of the streetcar work completed in October 2016, crews resurfaced North Rampart and installed new manhole covers for Entergy to access its electrical equipment.
The covers were apparently not level with the street and now have to be raised.
Sam Saadeh at Key's Fuel Mart on Rampart wants to know why the work wasn't done properly the first time around.
"They start tearing up the street back again and I hope it's not another year of construction," Saadeh said.
Saadeh complains customers are avoiding his business because of the road work.
"With this construction, with the traffic, you see I have no business, right now," he said. "Everybody going a different way."
Treme resident Benji Bohannon agrees the lane closures make it harder to get around.
"It takes longer," Bohannon said. "It makes everybody else more frustrated. It was that way three years ago when they were working on it. It's going to be that way again."
Drivers hope the RTA can complete the work and get North Rampart open again as soon as possible.
"It's going to be a real inconvenience," McGowan said. "I'm sure I'm not the only person that will feel that."
A spokeswoman for the RTA confirmed the agency is is responsible for the construction on North Rampart. She said workers will adjust the elevation of 10 manholes. The work is expected to be completed in two weeks.