West side Expressway with new bridge ( aka Loop) gaining traction

It would take at least five years to complete any sort of loop/ bridge project once it started. Think of how shitty the problem will be 5 to 10 years from now.

Baton Rouge is done. It's over.

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West side Expressway with new bridge ( aka Loop) gaining traction

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lol

Would do nothing to get trucks off i12

Complete loop is needed

Pipe dream

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new bridge ( aka Loop) gaining traction

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That just means their going to hire some firm to do another "study" on it that will cost a couple of million dollars. We have to do these every couple of years you know.

No bridge is coming. This is just another excuse for politicians to funnel millions of dollars to relatives and campaign contributors in the form of a "traffic study" which is going to say the same thing the last 5 studies said: we need a new bridge, but it's even more expensive than the last time we studied it! Then, the project won't get built because it's too expensive, despite that if DOTD added up all of the money they spent studying the project so many times, that money would equal or more than likely exceed the cost of a new bridge back when they first started studying it.

The state just needs to abandon hope for Baton Rouge and build Lafayette a loop

not in my backyard, pal!

my dad mentioned to me the other day, the thought of a loop around br has been talked about since the late 70s

just fyi