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Dear President Trump - the Baton Rouge bottleneck is a national security issue
Posted on 5/8/25 at 6:38 am
Posted on 5/8/25 at 6:38 am
As well as a national economic emergency and an environmental hazard.
Billions of dollars are lost monthly because of traffic. People late for work or meetings, truckers sitting, late/untimely deliveries, all the while their cars are idling and belching pollution. A barge or truck bomb on the Wilkinson bridge could cripple this nation, yet we get a taste of that almost every day.
Use your emergency powers to fasttrack the construction of a bypass loop and bridge to help mitigate this issue.
Billions of dollars are lost monthly because of traffic. People late for work or meetings, truckers sitting, late/untimely deliveries, all the while their cars are idling and belching pollution. A barge or truck bomb on the Wilkinson bridge could cripple this nation, yet we get a taste of that almost every day.
Use your emergency powers to fasttrack the construction of a bypass loop and bridge to help mitigate this issue.
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Posted on 5/8/25 at 6:44 am to udtiger
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Billions of dollars are lost monthly because of traffic
While you're at it ask why I-20 has been under construction between Shreveport and Monroe for 35 years.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 6:46 am to The Torch
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While you're at it ask why I-20 has been under construction between Shreveport and Monroe for 35 years.
It makes it hard for me to go pick up my meat at Bellevue during hunting season.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 6:48 am to udtiger
Man that would be awesome.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 6:49 am to udtiger
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Billions of dollars are lost monthly because of traffic.
Sorry, but BR isn’t that productive.
Unless you include NIL monies.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 6:51 am to udtiger
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As well as a national economic emergency and an environmental hazard.
Billions of dollars are lost monthly because of traffic. People late for work or meetings, truckers sitting, late/untimely deliveries, all the while their cars are idling and belching pollution. A barge or truck bomb on the Wilkinson bridge could cripple this nation, yet we get a taste of that almost every day.
Use your emergency powers to fasttrack the construction of a bypass loop and bridge to help mitigate this issue.
Well done. I'm from Oklahoma, but have made the drive from here to the Florida panhandle numerous times (I have relatives there). I loathe having to pass through Baton Rouge, specifically because of that mess.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 6:54 am to udtiger
I have long hoped they would do it. I now go to Nola on 90 to avoid BR.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 6:57 am to LSUnation78
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Sorry, but BR isn’t that productive.
Unless you include NIL monies.
I'm talking nationally
Posted on 5/8/25 at 7:01 am to udtiger
Wasn’t the interstate highway system originally built for the military and national security?
Posted on 5/8/25 at 7:19 am to udtiger
If they could just divert commercial trucking around the city it would have an enormous impact on things traffic related as well as preserve the infrastructure, costing less to maintain in the future I have to imagine as well.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 7:21 am to LSUnation78
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Sorry, but BR isn’t that productive
Ummm are you serious? It’s a bottleneck on I10 which is the most travelled section for industry in the country dumbass. Bringing Baton Rouge has nothing to do with it except for slow work
Posted on 5/8/25 at 7:22 am to shrevetigertom
Same here. In Lafayette or Houston weekly and always take 90
Posted on 5/8/25 at 7:25 am to udtiger
If he could just help us build an elevated interstate on top of Airline Hwy, things would become a whole lot better.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 7:49 am to udtiger
Maybe the state of Louisiana could divert some of the money being siphoned off the levee building projects to a new by-pass siphoning/money laundering scheme.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 8:40 am to udtiger
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People late for work or meetings, truckers sitting, late/untimely deliveries
or they could just leave a little earlier to make their meeting in time
Posted on 5/8/25 at 8:41 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
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Maybe the state of Louisiana could divert some of the money being siphoned off the levee building projects to a new by-pass siphoning/money laundering scheme.
I'm not talking about funding (although, it would come from feds [see Mobile River bridge]), but about expedited construction. He could declare it a national security/national economic emergency and bypass environmental impact and other bullshite delaying studies and start construction in weeks.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 8:45 am to udtiger
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He could declare it a national security/national economic emergency and bypass environmental impact and other bullshite delaying studies and start construction in weeks.
You would need this AND he would have to make certain that local politics did not get in the way because the bypass would need to start well east of BR, go north, and come back into I-10 well west of the MS river... The locals are going to scream to high heaven about bypassing BR far enough out to make an impact on the traffic...
Posted on 5/8/25 at 8:59 am to The Maj
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You would need this AND he would have to make certain that local politics did not get in the way because the bypass would need to start well east of BR, go north, and come back into I-10 well west of the MS river... The locals are going to scream to high heaven about bypassing BR far enough out to make an impact on the traffic...
federal eminent domain is pretty strong
It could start at 12 between Walker and Colyell, so south/southeast and cross I-10 (with exist/access there) between 73 and Bluff Road overpass (near the landfill) and then cross over Spanish Lake/Swamp behind the prisons, cross the Mississippi below Plaquemine and bypass around it, running a separate road essentially splitting 77 and 1 and merging onto I-10 between Lobdell and Grosse Tete.
This post was edited on 5/8/25 at 9:01 am
Posted on 5/8/25 at 9:07 am to AubieinNC2009
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or they could just leave a little earlier to make their meeting in time
Thats applicable to everywhere. I can testify that the bottleneck is real and can happen at any time of the day/night. Weekends are dogshit too. I do think you could legitimately argue that its a national security issue given the amount of interstate commerce effected.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 9:08 am to udtiger
Louisiana politicians would still find a way to frick it up.
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