re: Today's Advocate headline, "I-10 widening garners little enthusiasm"

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If they built new lanes for 10 East, don't you think they would reconfigure the bridge lanes to have all 3 lanes available for eastbound traffic, instead of 1 for NB 110, 1 for EB 10 and 1 for Washington Street?

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I think widening would need to begin at the Nicholson/Highland exit. You then would have 4 lanes coming off the bridge with 1 going northbound I-110 and the other 3 going eastbound.

You hold those 3 lanes all the way out to the 10/12 split.. so 2 lanes of widening beginning at Washington street. This would mean that the interstate would be 5 lanes wide in the eastbound direction from the I-110 southbound merge to the 10/12 split.

I know. Easier said than done.