re: Will Baton Rouge Ever Get an Interstate Loop?

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kingbob

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Thanks for the serious, thought-out reply.

It was worth it to get the typical OT responses to an "old" topic. The hypocrisy of which is that their responses are just as redundant.

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Bro, do you even construction in BR?
Yeah. 7 years is way too soon I guess. I was trying to be nice.

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It took nearly 10 years to widen I-10 and that was only a few miles... I don't even want to think about how much time it would take for them to do a whole loop

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It took nearly 10 years to widen I-10 and that was only a few miles... I don't even want to think about how much time it would take for them to do a whole loop

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15?

But really, the big hurdle with I-10 was dealing with the traffic and working. Building a whole new road can, at times, go smoother. The most recent examples of this are the Central Thruway and Hwy 10 and the Audubon bridge between New Roads and St. Francisville.

Flying cars.

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Audubon bridge between New Roads and St. Francisville.

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This was an Edwin Edwards-esque pay-off project. It serves very few people and doesn't appear to be designed to handle loop-type traffic diversions.

There will be one someday but it will be so late that it will already be under designed/obsolete

Green US Senator in DC won't help too much either.

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It serves very few people and doesn't appear to be designed to handle loop-type traffic diversions.

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I frequently cross it without seeing a single car between river road and the light at 61.

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This was an Edwin Edwards-esque pay-off project. It serves very few people and doesn't appear to be designed to handle loop-type traffic diversions.

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It could handle a loop, because it's so far out of the way that no one would use it.

The northern loop should utilize the Huey P. Long Bridge (Hwy 190), cut through Glen Oaks, cross the Amite south of Greenwell Springs, and reconnect with I-10 between Denham and Walker.

The Southern loop should cross the Amite near Hoo Shoo Too road, roughly follow Bayou Manchac to the river, cross at Plaquamine to connect with LA 75. The "Western Loop" could come at a later date, possibly upgrading LA 1, LA 77, or LA 415 to interstate grade.

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Will Baton Rouge Ever Get an Interstate Loop?

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Doubt it. I'm completely boycotting all Baton Rouge businesses until they get a loop; going on 2 years now. I hate even driving through that shithole on my way to superior Louisiana cities.