re: Committee shoots down proposal for new Lake Charles I-10 Bridge

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Article is light on details.

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Modern journalism

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Personally think a toll there would not be smart from a traffic standpoint

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Wat

Didn’t congress recently pass one of the largest infrastructure spending bills in us history?

It’s is ridiculous I10 didn’t receive a bigger slice of that pie.

Yep it’s gonna take loss of life for it to happen.

No there isn’t, you don’t know wtf you are talking about. It’s under gone tons of renovation and fixed pretty much all the issues and is one of the most heavily monitored in the us

It still needs to be replaced. Doesn’t meat the standards for a interstate bridge

I know many will so no to the tolls but that is literally the only way this will every be built

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That's simly false. In places like intercity? Maybe. Ever driven from KC to Topeka? Anywhere in Jersey? Or I-95 at all? IH system tolls are everywhere.

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Nearly all (if not all) of the mainline interstate tollways existed prior to the interstate highway system. They were existing turnpikes that made sense as routes for major interstates.

The interstate system was intended to be funded without tolls, to the extent that the legislation creating the system specifically prohibited interstate highway funding from being used to build or maintain toll roads. However, it didn’t make sense to bypass all of the existing turnpike infrastructure in certain parts of the country. So Congress decided those turnpikes could become part of the interstate system in name, but without any federal funding.

There are some exceptions nowadays (such as HOV lanes) but for the most part tolls are only allowed on mainline interstate highways if they are already tolled.

I assume Lake Charles intended to skate this rule the same way Mobile tried to skate it a few years ago - by “rerouting” mainline I-10 over the other (non-tolled) bridge and changing the toll bridge route to a spur. Which.. OK, I suppose. It appears to be legal. But this idea that it happens all the time is false.

I'm not a fan of tolls. But for people who are opposed to tolls please tell me, realistically, how this bridge gets funded. We are never raising the gas tax in LA, and most of our other government revenue is constitutionally restricted. Same for a new BR area bridge.

Name the names of the people who voted.....