re: Today's Advocate headline, "I-10 widening garners little enthusiasm"

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Widening the interstate inside the city is just increasing the bottle neck.

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The fact is where I-110 and I-10 meet at the bridge is that three lanes from the North (I-110) and two lanes from the West (I-10) merge and there are only three lanes.

To account for this problem they decreased I-110 to two lanes, but I-10 still funnels down to the one lane. Four lanes from the merger point to the split heading East is just common sense.

Things aren't as bad on the East bound side, except the approach to the bridge is poorly designed which slows traffic and is dangerous for trucks. But four lanes from the I-10/I-12 split works well because there are three lanes of I-12 and two lanes of I-10 merging into three lanes at Acadian. Three lanes with No shoulders leaving you a big chokepoint if there is one accident.