Officials have released traffic information and evacuation orders for the area near where the Palace Hotel with be imploded around 8 a.m. Sunday.
By 4 a.m. the streets in the secured area, which is bounded north and south from Bienville Street to Tulane Avenue and east and west from S. Villere Street to Johnson Street, will be closed to all pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
Officials plan to close Interstate-10 in both directions between the Orleans Avenue Exit and the Pontchartrain Expressway (to the Slidell exit) beginning at 7 a.m.
Westbound traffic will be forced to exit at Orleans Ave., and eastbound traffic will be forced to exit at Poydras.
