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

Love how nobody had suggested traffic reduction fixes such as car-pooling instead of everyone driving their own cars into the city.

Or bus services, or trains.

You know, what other major metropolitan areas do.

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by dagrippa The problem is the bridge. It's not the number of lanes up to the bridge.


Widen the bridge or build another one next to it.

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That is part of what needs to be done. There needs to be a another bridge built next to the "new bridge." That way there can be a HOV lane atleast 2 lanes of through traffic and and exit lane with shoulders wide enough for emergency vehicles to use during wrecks in both directions. I-10 also needs to be widened but that is a minimum of $1.5 billion and we are broke. Now would be a good time to raise the gas tax or find other sources of revenue to use to fix it with though.