Will there ever be an I-10 exit/interchange between Highland and Hwy 73 in Prairieville?

Stop trying to make sense of BR metro area infrastructure. That’s always the first mistake.

Both those exits are huge exits

Problem is the road at the end of the exit it too small. 73 should be 5 lanes from airline to 30

73 had the suicide lane added in the early 2000's if I remever correctly. It took forever. At the time we were all complaining about it not being 4 laned all the way from airline to the river. Lots of round a bouts being added. They're doing better now than they did back then but the reality is Prairieville infatructure was behind the 8 ball in 1990 and that was the time to fix it. Instead nothing was done and by 2000 it was far too late.

Time to move one more Parish out

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I’m 59. I told my wife a week ago, there will be a Bluff Road I10 exit before we die and it will completely ruin that area.

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There are too many houses too close to the interstate at Bluff. They'd have to do it further south and build a new road to connect I-10 to Airline near Mike Anderson's (the old Sammy's).

Maybe if we had actual shoulders on any of the parish roads,a minor accident could move to the side of the road so the rest of us could travel around it.

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Won't go through the swamp either.

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Why not? They built one across the Atchafalaya decades ago. Also, the St. Francisville bridge travels over swampy area for a long distance.

There's plenty of non-developed land between Himmel's cabinet shop and 73.

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Why not? They built one across the Atchafalaya decades ago

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The world has changed in 50+ years.

Also that exit will turn into a couple billion dollars with the mitigation construction.

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There's plenty of non-developed land between Himmel's cabinet shop and 73.

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And finally you will be landing a new exit terminus less than a half mile from the current exit terminus. Just widen 73 like it should have been.

That whole intersection of 621 / 73 / I-10 is an absolute shitshow in the mornings and afternoons.

Way too many cars for that crap to handle smoothly.

There is not enough land to widen 73 an extra lane from I-10 to Airline. They could widen in some spots, but that would just change the location of the current shitshows.

If there was a Bluff Road interchange or new one connecting to Airline around Mike Andersons, all the people who live on Old Jefferson, 42, and coming from Livingston could use that new interchange. It would help 73 so much.