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New Bridge over Mississippi River at least 4 years from groundbreaking
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:00 pm
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New Baton Rouge bridge over Mississippi River years from groundbreaking
Business Report
Engineers studying the feasibility of a new bridge across the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge are making progress, but the project is still years away from a groundbreaking, much less completion.
At a meeting this afternoon at the state Capitol, consultants and engineers for the state told members of the Capital Area Road and Bridge District it will be late 2022 before a planning study, currently underway, is completed and late 2024 before they finish the environmental assessment, which is a key piece of the project design.
Planning for a new $1 billion bridge was always going to be time consuming and complex. What’s adding to the challenges of designing the new span is finding a location that is feasible not only in terms of traffic flow and connecting roads on both banks of the river but also accounts for obstacles beneath the surface of the river.
The OT has already decided on the bridge placement. Option 4 is the most likely, but Option 1 or 2 is also OT approved.
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Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:03 pm to goofball
Just fricking pick one and go with it already.
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:04 pm to goofball
Might as well start working on Nicholson now because it is nowhere near ready to handle that volume of extra traffic
I'm sure the U Club is going to be thrilled with that news
Do they still have their own security cop letting traffic out that backs up in U Club in the morning?
I'm sure the U Club is going to be thrilled with that news
Do they still have their own security cop letting traffic out that backs up in U Club in the morning?
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:06 pm to goofball
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District it will be late 2022 before a planning study, currently underway, is completed and late 2024 before they finish the environmental assessment, which is a key piece of the project design.
How? How does it take 3 years for an environmental
Impact study?
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:06 pm to goofball
This just in:
“Water is still wet under the bridge that still isn’t there”
“Water is still wet under the bridge that still isn’t there”
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:06 pm to goofball
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and late 2024 before they finish the environmental assessment
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:08 pm to goofball
Hang everyone involved
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:08 pm to goofball
All of those options will require MASSIVE improvements to Hwy 1 and Hwy 30 to accommodate the project. Lord help us all. We're in for a clusterfrick.
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:10 pm to goofball
Wherever they build it, they need to build it far enough down to atleast implement a loop back up to i10 and i12. Exiting two miles before the current bridge would be an awful idea, hopefully they have enough sense to have the connection back a ways on the west side.
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:21 pm to goofball
China would have this done by next Thursday.
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:25 pm to goofball
This will be done about the same time the “future I-49 corridor” from Lafayette to Nola is completed.
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:42 pm to goofball
How, on God's green Earth, with all the work they have already done on it, is a Bluebonnet area bridge not an option?
Burbank, Siegen, Bluebonnet, I10 all already built up in the SBR area. Expand a little bit of river road to the north as a feeder and dump the bridge out on La1 north of Dow.
How is Dow not pushing for this? It would put a major dent in their truck deliveries/shipments as well.
ETA: l'auberge would love it as well, as the feeder road would run right by it.
Burbank, Siegen, Bluebonnet, I10 all already built up in the SBR area. Expand a little bit of river road to the north as a feeder and dump the bridge out on La1 north of Dow.
How is Dow not pushing for this? It would put a major dent in their truck deliveries/shipments as well.
ETA: l'auberge would love it as well, as the feeder road would run right by it.
This post was edited on 3/30/21 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:44 pm to goofball
This bridge has been at least 4 years from groundbreaking since about 1988.
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:46 pm to goofball
Just as soon save this article and repost it in 4 years as nothing will have changed!
Posted on 3/30/21 at 1:47 pm to goofball
I guarantee you no one doing this study has even considered what happens when the usual slow moving trains are rolling on the tracks next to Hwy 30. Every one of these plans call for an intersection at hwy 30 and building an overpass at the tracks to intersect with hwy 30 would be a disaster.
Posted on 3/30/21 at 2:29 pm to goofball
4, 3, 5, 2, 1
Posted on 3/30/21 at 2:59 pm to goofball
option 4/5 or gtfo
Posted on 3/30/21 at 3:06 pm to goofball
So option 4 is essentially a bridge for plant workers?
Posted on 3/30/21 at 4:26 pm to goofball
Should we just build all of them?
Posted on 3/30/21 at 4:32 pm to goofball
Option 1 and 2 go through the LSU AgCenter Central Research Station and the LSU fire training school (FETI) so these are unlikely choices.
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