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re: I-10 EB on MS River Bridge in BR Closed
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:19 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:19 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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I agree on a crossing in the St. Gabriel to Plaquemine area connecting to Hwy. 1. It would greatly ease transportation amongst all the process plants.
Someone here tried to argue that the "city" of Plaquemine is too "congested" to allow a bridge built nearby.
Pretty much sums up the whole fricked up mindset that prevents progress in this area in a nutshell.
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Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:21 pm to biglego
Sitting in it now
Thank god I have pics if Paige to blow my load on
This is ridiculous
Thank god I have pics if Paige to blow my load on
This is ridiculous
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:30 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Seems like we are really at the threshold. Something needs to be done to alleviate traffic across the river. Fingers crossed but the state will probably just build one between the 2 BR bridges instead of building one in Plaquemine to split the difference between BR and Donaldsonville.
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:34 pm to Walt OReilly
Everything should be open now.
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:35 pm to yodaddyroberto
quote:
I'm stuck right in middle of the bridge
Cool view?
How does the stadium construction progress look?
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:40 pm to Tactical1
It's open and moving it's just annoying how often this shut happens
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:42 pm to Walt OReilly
This is why we can't have a loop.
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:44 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
Neither of those need to have sufficient clearance for ocean going tankers, either. Of course, BR's "new" bridge is the last bridge upriver that does. Thanks Huey.
how far would you like large vessels to be able to go upriver?
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:46 pm to Walt OReilly
So glad I didn't have to go west today
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:46 pm to Y.A. Tittle
It would have to be south of Plaquemine. Most of the town is right along the river. So yes it would be too congested to put a bridge in the town of Plaquemine. I can assure you that a bridge is wanted here though.
This post was edited on 5/12/14 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:48 pm to Pectus
quote:
How does the stadium construction progress look?
you see the north side from the bridge
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:52 pm to Jones
quote:
how far would you like large vessels to be able to go upriver?
The legend is that Huey built the 190 Bridge to keep oceangoing vessels from going further up the river, but at the bend just north of there there's a huge freakin' sandbar. Keeping a deep channel open would require 24/7 dredging or a massive engineering project to cut through the bend. And there's really no suitable place along the river that has both the topography and railroad/highway connections for big industrial infrastructure until, what, Memphis?
The bridge makes for good storytelling, but it's more likely they didn't build it high enough for oceangoing ships to pass under because they knew ships would never need to go any further up the river.
Posted on 5/12/14 at 5:58 pm to Jim Rockford
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but at the bend just north of there there's a huge freakin' sandbar.
they also have a huge sandbar at the bend just south of the river that they have to dredge often. when the river is low, you can walk out past the tree line into where the river usually is.
quote:
but it's more likely they didn't build it high enough for oceangoing ships to pass under because they knew ships would never need to go any further up the river.
Yea sounds about right. Would be way too expensive for companies to go past BR any further.
Posted on 5/12/14 at 6:09 pm to GEAUXmedic
Moving from BR makes you realize exactly how shitty that interstate system is.
Posted on 5/12/14 at 6:17 pm to KingRanch
yea I drive to Lafayette pretty much every day then back...it sucks east bound in the afternoon from Hwy 415 to Acadian pretty much every day...all day on Fridays...
Posted on 5/12/14 at 6:22 pm to farad
Fridays will back up at noon.
Posted on 5/12/14 at 6:26 pm to KingRanch
*sigh*
I'm on the redneck retirement program...I buy a lottery ticket every week...
I'm on the redneck retirement program...I buy a lottery ticket every week...
Posted on 5/12/14 at 6:38 pm to Shexter
quote:
The city of St. Louis has 6 bridges crossing the Mississippi River.
The city of Austin has 8 bridges crossing the Colorado River.
Nashville has 8 bridges crossing the Cumberland River.
frick, Shreveport/Bossier has FIVE bridges crossing the Red River and the cities combined are half the size of Baton Rouge
This post was edited on 5/12/14 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 5/12/14 at 6:44 pm to LSUzealot
How many of those bridges have an underwater clearance of 175ft?
Posted on 5/12/14 at 7:16 pm to Jones
Over water clearance you maroon
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