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

I say this every time this come out. Supposedly the problem is traffic from I-10 trying to get to I-12 to go to Atlanta. If you complete 3127 from Boutte to Gross Tete, the majority of the right-of way is bought and paid for. Your would only need to run from Gross Tete to Donaldsonville and from Gross Tete to the Audubon bridge. There is a roadway on that end, but it would need to be straightened and expanded, but 3127 has the land to be 4 laned all the way. That would give acces to every bridge that touches I-10 all the way to Boutte, you could eliminate I-12 traffic by completing I-55 to LaPlace that gives any trucks, etc. Access to all the routes around Baton Rouge. Make it a toll road, most trucks would gladly use it to get out of Baton Rouge. So you build that first and then you make the new bridge access it. That should have been the priority years ago. The only things it would effect are canefields and swamps, no real towns. Also, you would have to divert access to 3127 to service roads or ramps, but this seems like a "No Brainer". It just isn't in the Parishes with all the political clout. It touches all the bridges from St Francisville to Boutte so there is no reason traffic that wasn't required to go in to Baton Rouge, wouldn't bypass it. It would also reduce the traffic going through Baton Rouge significantly, leaving no need for a bypass from Livingston. Any traffic going West or North could bypass BR altogether.