re: Baton Rouge - After accident, man jumps from I-10 to avoid being hit by car

The guy that designed that has long since died. The Baton Rouge metro area has more than doubled in size since then. The nation's reliance on interstate trucking as grown ten fold.

It's a shitty design but a lot of people ignored it since then. It really should have been addressed 25 years ago.

It will cost about $300 million to widen the section between the bridge and College Drive, and that would have an immediate impact on regional traffic. The state claims not to have the money but still throws cash away on projects with much more local focus and far less greater impact. And they do it every year.