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re: Proposed and Conceptual Interstate Corridors in Louisiana
Posted on 11/3/15 at 3:21 pm to alajones
Posted on 11/3/15 at 3:21 pm to alajones
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And we are talking about a freaking ghetto and a bunch of Swepco waste land anyway.
and with an interstate running through it, that is all it will ever be
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Posted on 11/3/15 at 3:37 pm to Salmon
I'm all for development. But progress has to happen also.
I love the proposal for downtown Bossier City and I hate that Whole Foods wound up in south Shreveport instead of the original proposal which was downtown.
Hopefully Shreveport will get their crap together on the whole Shreveport common thing also.
I love the proposal for downtown Bossier City and I hate that Whole Foods wound up in south Shreveport instead of the original proposal which was downtown.
Hopefully Shreveport will get their crap together on the whole Shreveport common thing also.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 3:37 pm to Salmon
here is a good article illustrating what I have been trying to say
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Between the 1950s and the 1980s, cities across the country undertook massive freeway construction projects. In many cases they decided to run the freeways straight through downtown, bulldozing thousands of homes and businesses in the process.
At the time, this was seen as a sign of progress. Not only did planners hope to help people get downtown more quickly, they saw many of the neighborhoods being torn down as blighted and in need of "urban renewal."
But tearing down a struggling neighborhood rarely made problems like crime and overcrowding go away. To the contrary, displaced people would move to other neighborhoods, often exacerbating overcrowding problems. Crime rates rose, not fell, in the years after these projects.
This post was edited on 11/3/15 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 11/3/15 at 3:38 pm to Salmon
While I see the merits to both sides of the I-49 ICC in Shreveport it may come down to money. If you connect the 2 parts of I-49 you only have to build a 3 mile stretch of interstate.
However if you decide to "Loop it" and convert 3132 and 220 into thru interstate road as now I-49, it will take more than just throwing up new signs. The current roadway would need to be expanded and that would mean a whole new cloverleaf at I-20, something would have to be done about the nearly 90 degree curve on eastbound 220 at I-20, as well as a new bridge over Cross Lake.
In the end, money may determine the outcome.
However if you decide to "Loop it" and convert 3132 and 220 into thru interstate road as now I-49, it will take more than just throwing up new signs. The current roadway would need to be expanded and that would mean a whole new cloverleaf at I-20, something would have to be done about the nearly 90 degree curve on eastbound 220 at I-20, as well as a new bridge over Cross Lake.
In the end, money may determine the outcome.
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