re: Anyone here commute daily from BR to Plaquemine?

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I now realize this in no way helps you, sorry

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If anything, I figured out I'd need to keep an ice chest stocked with 8 oz Budweiser's to deal with the commute

I commuted from Gonzales to the west side for 2 years before I said I had to move to the west side or find a new job. I tell the people I work with just to suck it up and move here if you want a long term career on the west side.

That intracoastal bridge and I-10E bridge traffic is brutal. In the afternoons, I’ve regularly seen it backed up in the N/B lanes of La 1 from the bridge to south of Brusly High

Don’t envy anyone that has to make that trip daily.

And it’s about to get much worse for a few years with them about to start replacing the intracoastal bridge

Takes me an hour from the DOW gates to Hoo Shoo Too rd and on a good day 45 mins. I have to do some trickery but I know a few tricks. Gotta frick the system and do some trickery on LA1 and ride through the hood, but I clip 30 mins off my ride every day

Once you hit the 10-12 split it becomes wide open.

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ETA: I don’t normally work in Plaquemine, but I do have to go to customer sites there fairly often. Usually I find that if I can leave Plaquemine before 2:30-3, it’s smooth sailing with a minor slowdown at the I-10 on-ramp. From 3-4 it’s basically a crawl from the on-ramp to the 10/110 merger. After 4, you just pray that there are no wrecks.

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Pretty much this.

I'll move mountains to not be on EB I-10 through BR from 2:45 - 6:30pm daily.

Some of my customers would get pissed, but I had a hard stop time of 2:30, or I'm billing them till 7pm.

Move into wbr or iberville. Area is growing, affordable and less crime. I moved closer to work and it's been a good call over time.

I've seen the daily Daytona500 when Dow opens the contractor floodgates. Not sure if Smoke225 is amongst them.

I did the Dow-BR commute for almost 40 years. For the first 25 traffic wasn't bad except for the occasional wreck on LA1 or the bridge. But for the last 15, daily traffic got progressively worse and the frequency of shutdown level wrecks increased. My detours to the old bridge became more frequent, but many times it was equally jammed up.

Finally resigned myself to stay in my office until 6:00 or so, mostly working, sometimes passing time on this board, with regular checks on Waze or the DOTD cameras at LA1-I10.

As poster above mentioned, work is supposed to start on the replacement bridges over the Intracoastal Waterway. That will not help with your commute time.

Don't take the Plaquemine job, move to Brusly, or suck it up and find a car with a comfortable seat, good a/c and good sound system. Good luck

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Sounds like I'll have to figure something out hours wise. I know one guy who works there and lives off of Highland, but he has been WFH mostly since last March, so he may have forgotten the hell of the commute lol.

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Well, and you have to take into account he has the advantage of getting off at Nicholson which is basically immediately over the bridge.

I live off Highland near Lee and that's where I get off, and its a huge difference from sitting on the interstate for several more miles. You won't have that advantage unless you plan to take Nicholson to Government or North and head into Mid City that way, which is what I'd do if I were you. I would do North. That's the clearest of those roads running parallel.

This thread is depressing