Planning starts on Washington St exit relocation

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relocate the Washington Street exit

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Just eliminate it. Who the hell gets off on Washington Street anyway?

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one of the sources of chronic congestion

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ISWYD

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while longer-term megaprojects—like widening I-10 from the Mississippi River bridge to the I-10/I-12 split—slowly make their way through the multistaged federal planning process

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this should be the priority

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relocate the Washington Street exit on Interstate-10

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ok fine...close the present exit and proceed with the plans above. Then worry about this meaningless exit

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Planning starts on Washington St exit relocation

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I rejoice for my great grandchildren.

The only people who use the washington street exit are the women drivers who are too busy texting to merge left.

Eliminate the wahington st. exit and re-stripe that secton of interstate. Have the lanes coming off the bridge continue on, while the far left lane of southbound I-110 ends just before the merge.

its the worst, always has morons trying to cut across 4 lanes to get off there. Of course they stare you down like you're the a-hole.

Just get off at Nicholson and get back on I10 at the Washington St exit. It's like the traffic was never there.

They're trying to fight a forest fire with a garden hose. Nothing is going to make any noticeable impact except for a bypass or loop. I refuse to move back to BR until that is complete.

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Just eliminate it. Who the hell gets off on Washington Street anyway?

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I use it to bail (heading from downtown) when the interstate is backed up.

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They're trying to fight a forest fire with a garden hose. Nothing is going to make any noticeable impact except for a bypass or loop.

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Pretty much. The effect of removing the Washington St. exit will be minimal. The problem is an increase in the number of people on I-10 and an infrastructure that is not built to handle it.

There are major choke points before the 10/12 merge that really have nothing to do with Wash. St.

1. You have more 18 wheelers on 10 than ever before. If eastbound traffic ahead of the bridge slows even for just a few minutes, it creates a reverberating effect back to WBR. Once you slow them down, those 18 wheelers take forever to climb up the bridge. That slows everything behind them down.

2. removing wash st. exit just pushes the problem down to Dalrymple.

3. The aforementioned 18 wheelers then slow everything down again as they are trying to climb the Perkins Rd. overpass.

BR traffic is never going to get better until they find a way to give the cross-country travelers and 18 wheelers an option to go around 10 as it passes through the heart of BR. Sadly, this state is so politically corrupt and inefficient that there will continue to be an all out war to prevent that from happening, beit the NIMBY's or businesses off of Perkins, Acadian, Bluebonnet, Essen, Seigen.

Plus, unless you are the most naive person in the world, the black residents of "the bottom" neighborhood are going to raise holy hell if anyone tries to remove the Washington St. exit. It has nothing to do with logic. They are going to cry racism (at least until the political leaders and community organizers have their pockets greased by the state and fedgov.)

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Just get off at Nicholson and get back on I10 at the Washington St exit. It's like the traffic was never there.

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Looking at a Google map, there is only an exit from the interstate to Washington ST. There is no entrance ramp from Washington St.to east I-10. So, taking the bridge to Highland is a better way to Wash. ST. But I don't see getting back on the interstate there. I've never been that way to confirm.