Traffic Street widening, natural gas stations under way in Bossier City

By Drew Pierson • dpierson@gannett.com March 3, 2010

Natural gas stations
The city is also working on two public, natural gas fueling stations, the first of which is being built on Beckett Street next to the city municipal complex and
will be finished in months.

"We expect these to be just the first of several stations later on," Walker said.

Bossier City expects to spend about $4 million to build two natural gas fueling stations, combined with an additional $1.2 million the city received in federal grants to build the stations. These stations also will provide other alternative fuels such as ethanol-based biofuels.

City leaders say they hope to tap into natural gas, the plentiful alternative fuel that can cost a third less than a gallon of gasoline, especially since Bossier City, like the rest of the area, is sitting on one of the largest natural gas deposits in the world — the Haynesville Shale.

Work on the first station should be completed this summer, then work on the second station, to be built off of south Barksdale Boulevard by Walker Place, will be built, Hudson said. Plans also have been discussed to convert many of Bossier City's city-owned vehicles to run on natural gas.

"It's not just the local people who might use it," Walker said of the stations. "It's
people from all over the community."

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Has anyone heard of S'port doing the same?
Earlene