How many of you baws went to the public meeting last night about the new bridge?

Whatever location they choose will upset some NIMBY prick.

Got to upset someone here and make a decision. Build the bridge.

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"Somebody is going to be mad."

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Nothing excites me more than having uninformed people show up at a meeting to bitch about stuff.

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Oh well why don’t you inform us Mr. smarty pants

It’s unusual for someone to be upset over something like this so why don’t you tell us how you are involved.

I don’t think people are out of line to be upset over this with Louisiana’s history of corruption, inefficiency, and poorly executed plans.

Just build it straight through Spanish Lake to impact less people.

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"We live in University Club," said Sally Daly. "It is going to impact us. Somebody is going to be mad."

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U-club people can’t even get out of their neighborhood in the morning without having a cop block traffic to let them out. They think they have stroke, but they don’t even have enough stroke to get a red light put up.

Building a road that exits I-10 just east of Grosse Tete connecting to a bridge by Dow and putting a road through Spanish Lake to Bluff Rd. is what needs to happen. A lot of the proposals have bridge traffic going to LA-30, but for that to happen LA-30 would have to be completely redone from LSU to Gonzales and I have no idea how’d they’d propose to fix the mess around I-10 in Gonzales.

What seems to be missing from all of these proposals is a large reduction in pass through traffic traveling through Baton Rouge.

None of these options will eliminate the freight trucks traveling cross country on I-10/12.

None of these options will provide a true bypass.

Yes, there will be a way to move people across the river who commute daily, but is that really why we are building a third bridge in the BR metro area?

Where is the linkage to the interstate? We will regret this choice almost like every other decision made regarding interstate paths in our area.

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Judy Eits said she is bothered that the bridge may be constructed too far south, to get traffic to New Orleans. Eits said lots of traffic on the current bridge near Port Allen, especially 18-wheelers, is trying to get to I-12 on the way east and those drivers want to avoid New Orleans. "I don't know that is our big problem," she said, meaning making it easier for motorists to get to eastbound I-10.

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I agree with Judy on the point that some of the more southerly routes wont get traffic off the I-10 bridge.

JMHO, but I always have figured that one of the Plaquemine routes could be done fairly well and tied into I-10 at Grosse Tete. The problem for a new bridge is the East side connection. It will have to connect to something worthy enough to handle the volume coming and going.

Tying the Newer Bridge into Bluebonnet would be a mistake of greater Epic proportion than the Washington St. exit.

Wherever the Newer Bridge goes someone will be put out ,this is why BR has never gotten a Loop.

Bullfrog and T are correct in their proposals. Once the elevated section across Spanish Lake ties in with I-10 a new route from I-10 along the intersection of LA928/427 should be built to intersect I-12 just east of Walker. This would give BR a southern loop.

i moved to baton rouge 22 years ago from texas( don't ask me why i did this i dont have a good reason). I have heard about the need for a loop and a bridge since i moved here. It's LOL that baton rouge doesnt have a loop. It doesnt have a loop because livingston parish and ascension parish shot down proposed loop ideas that came thru thier parishes. I remember the reasonings being very stupid. now all these years later we are still at the same point.