Will Baton Rouge Ever Get an Interstate Loop?

Tunnel first.

No.

That was fun. Thanks for this new and refreshing thread topic.

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wouldn't be complete until 2021 or 2022.

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Bro, do you even construction in BR?

Will not happen

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not even close!

Lake Charles > Baton Rouge

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They need to make I-10/12 at least 4 lanes fist.

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On both sides East/West.

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Hell, making 10 East at the east foot of the bridge 2 lane would help. But we won't close the Washington exit because, you know, racism and stuff.

No, for several reasons:
1. The EPA has basically made building elevated highways or highways through swampland impossible (this eliminates the southerly route that makes sense straddling the EBR/Ascension?Iberville Border)

2. Since the route that keeps it out of most peoples' backyards is not feasible due to reason 1, NIMBY's consistently will vote down any other alternatives that are not so far out of the way that they no longer save time.

3. People in Louisiana abhor toll roads, and will never vote for one. This eliminates one of the major means of funding such an ambitious and expensive project.

4. There is more money to be made in kickbacks from studying a project than from building it. There is no type of company that is more politically connected than one that performs feasibility studies for municipal projects. A lot of that money goes right back into the pockets of politicians.

5. Going through populated areas requires a ton of cash for imminent domain. In order for politicians to turn a profit on a project that gets built, it has to go through areas that can be made valuable via a major highway running through them. However, if the area is already valuable, it makes the highway more expensive to build and less likely to improve the value of that property (may actually drive it down). The best case is to have a road through "buildable" no-where (i.e. the soil supports buildings with minimal effort, but there's nothing there now). That way, they buy up far more property for the right of way than is needed and then sell that excess property to developers at below cost (with a kickback) around the highway exits (which are not known by the general public until after the land around those exits are bought up).

6. If you fix a problem, you can't campaign to fix that problem.

The whole loop debate is nothing more than a game.

Yes.
It will open the day before the first mass-produced flying car goes on the market. Or the day after my great-grandson has to give up his license because he's just too old to drive.