After the completion of the second span, a public contest was held in 1989 to rename the bridges, which was won by Jennifer Grodsky, of St. Clement of Rome School in Metairie, Louisiana, on March 17.

Most people refer to it as the "CCC", whereas the proper name of "Crescent City Connection" is used mainly in the media.

Due to the Mississippi River's winding course through the New Orleans area (the river is flowing north at the place where the two bridges cross), the bridge contains two wrong-way concurrencies, with the eastbound span carrying Business US 90 West, while the westbound span carries Business US 90 East.

The Crescent City Connection was the fifth most traveled toll bridge in the United States in 2006, with annual traffic exceeding 63 million vehicles.

Two days after the storm passed, the Gretna police set up a controversial roadblock on the bridge, refusing passage to evacuees on foot.

Toll collection resumed on October 10 after a six-week suspension, as the revenue was needed to maintain operations.

This proposed designation currently does not have funding to support all the needed infrastructure to accomplish the plan and has largely been dropped.

[13] While running for governor John McKeithen published a campaign promise to remove the toll if he were elected,.

[17] There have been investigations conducted by the Louisiana Office of Legislative Auditor regarding bridge employees pocketing toll revenue for their own use and supervisors falsifying reports to hide the theft.

[25] However, in the first quarter of 2005, the CCCD awarded a contract to Electronic Transaction Consultants (ETC) Corporation to design, develop and implement a replacement toll collection system.

GeauxPass is compatible with the Crescent City Connection, the LA-1 Tollway, and all future Louisiana toll roads.

The HOV lanes are frequently used for filming, as they are not heavily used and are separated from normal traffic by barrier walls.

The HOV lanes were used to film a scene in 21 Jump Street when a truck loaded with chickens explodes.

[28] The spans also served as the anchor for the background in most of the outdoor scenes in the film A Love Song for Bobby Long.

[29] The spans appeared on the finale of The Amazing Race 32 as the site of a task where contestants had to jump off one of the beams.