re: Sitting in traffic over the MS River bridge

The St. Francisville bridge? From my understanding, that bridge had been promised to the agricultural people in that community for a very long time prior to it finally being constructed and made. I could be wrong, but I don't think that bridge had anything to do with BR, and it was proposed and accepted prior to a lot of the current BR traffic problems due to influx of population. BR's problem is that they could have had a loop or another bridge but certain people in BR balked at the idea. I do agree though, a bridge and loop of some sort would cure much of Baton Rouge, and by default SELA's, traffic issues.

Edit: and yes the 10/12 split is a major source of the entire problem.