How did the Audubon bridge get built before

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I googled mapped that bridge and it is out in the middle of no where. All the help baton rouge needs with traffic and this was a solution at the time. This is so Louisiana.

Burl Cain.

Anything anyone tells you otherwise misses the mark on how powerful and how one-minded he was. He gave zero fricks about the state and forced all money into that bridge.

Since 1989...bullshite. if that were the case the Comite bypass would be done and an afterthought. The Burbank loop was approved before 1989 and never completed. Such a horseshite excuse.


Cain needed to do away with the ferry and connect the poor parishes so he could keep cheap labor. He didnt give two fricks about Louisiana and proved so when he left.

Good riddance. Wish he wouldn't have fricked BR.

They had a couple of powerful politicians from that area back in the day when it was approved.

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Another one closer to Baton Rouge area?
I know our politicians are idiots but this was just pure stupidity

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You should probably research these topics before you make an arse out of yourself.

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TIMED Project

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Any one know how much is left to pay on those bonds, or did they scheme the bonds to where they are almost perpetual, and we mainly pay just the interest on them and get stuck paying them for decades similarly like the Causeway but there is a toll involved instead of a tax.


The reason, I say this is that Louisiana has some major infrastructure needs and could use that 4 cents or an additional 4 or more cents to fund other projects in the state.

You talking about the one that goes St. Francisville? I know a dude who lives in New Roads and works at the Nuclear plant right across the river. He told me if he sees 3 vehicles on the opposite side, either going to or leaving work, its busier than usual. This state is bass ackwards.

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Audubon was very simple

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It was included in the TIMED program for political reasons, but yes that bridge is much cheaper to build than bridges serving BR South because they have to be tower to allow ocean going ships to pass.

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Audubon was very simple. There were already roads on either side of the river since there was a functioning ferry prior to the bridge being built. All they had to do was build a bridge and connect it to Hwy 10 on either side

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Not quite so fast (pun intended). The ferry was much north of Audubon, starting on the New Roads side coming off Ferry Road and running NNE across the river to near Bayou Sara under St. Francisville itself.

Source: I took that ferry many times back in the 80's.