re: here are the ten (!) options for a new MS river bridge

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I don't really care if it's down there. That would allow new burbs to be even farther from BR, and controlled more locally, which is a good thing.

A straight line from the basin exit to the bridge, then to i12 east of denham somewhere to avoid the BR shite show is what's really needed.

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I like the idea of extending 3127 from Donaldsonville all the way up to the Audubon Bridge. Make it a freeway grade road, then connect each bridge it passes to it with an interchange. Maybe not this route exactly, but something pretty similar.



So if you are stuck on I-10 headed east into Baton Rouge, you can just exit on 3127 somewhere west of LA415, and take this new bridge. Or if you are going to New Orleans, go all the way down to the Sunshine bridge or even Gramarcy or Luling.

To route back to I-12, that same person can take the same exit to 3127 northbound to US 190, then cross on the old bridge, and take a much improved Airline highway to I-12.
They'd need to make Airline more efficient with wider lanes, fewer lights, and overpasses over the rail road tracks for this to work.

If someone heading into Baton Rouge from the west were going beyond Baton Rouge towards I-55 and hit traffic on I-10, they can take the same exit northbound from I-10, go up to the Audubon bridge, and take LA10 to I-55 around Kentwood. LA10 is another road that we should beef up if we can. Probably LA16 too.