Ferries Will Save Traffic Nightmare When I-10 in BR Goes to One-Lane during Construction

So we’re bringing Aggies over to BR in the name of safety.

frick this place.

Ferries can’t run regularly to begin with.

Trying to rely on them for daily I-10 traffic is a disaster waiting to happen.

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"We’re working on different ways to mitigate that."

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How about working on that loop before you shut down I-10?

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Ferries

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Closed due to fog

I would probably just move or change careers if I had to drive across that every day.

This will be an historic disaster.

This frickin state

frick that I'll take the loop 20 minutes longer with no traffic on both. Bonus I don't have to deal with the basin bridge.

Ferries like with wings?

About what it'd take.


A guy with the name "Pete Heine" actually proposed a loop when he ran for mayor decades ago.

Here's what the response was, "You're gonna have business that could stop at my restaurant or gas station just go around Baton Rouge and miss us altogether? Terrible idea!"

So BR elected do-nothing mayors like Woody Dumas and Tom Ed and we never got a loop - just some good ol' baws as mayor for two decades.

Oh, here's another BR politics story: we needed a sewer system. Someone proposed doing it with clay - Roman aqueduct is still there, what, couple thousand years later?

But there was a well-connected politically cement contractor who - surprise - got the gig. So we got a billion+ crumbling sewer system.

The Paul Harvey 'rest of that story' was the widow of the cement contractor was asked to donate a million or so to a local private school. "Sure. But I have an idea on the new name..." That's how "Dunham" came to be Dunham...

It is 2 ferries, they carry about 1500 people a day. About 150,000 cars cross the bridge a day.

Ferris lose millions of dollars a year because it is a $1 a car. Your tax dollars pick up the rest.

You are not good a math.

USCG will not allow any more ferries to run because of traffic on river.

The only way that works is if they were to run 4-5 ferries at a time, like they do on the Galveston Ferry, but I don't think river traffic would allow for that.

I think the state needs to invest in a plan for cross country traffic to take (headed westbound) 12 to 61 to 190 across the old bridge to 1 back to 10.

Westbound 1 South to the Sunshine Bridge and back to 10, again with traffic control improvements and officers to help move traffic along.

Offer the truckers some kind of incentive to make up for additional fuel used, perhaps a rebate of state fuel excise taxes up to a certain amount.

Invest in updating light sequencing and possibly even traffic control officers during certain parts of each day to keep the trafic moving.

If you can make a serious effort to get a major number of trucks off that portion of I-10 completely, it might be as terrible. But that's going to be hard to do.