re: BR architect: close the washington st exit

If I were made Traffic Czar, I would solve that issue, in part, by 4-laning nicholson all the way to Gonzales, 4-lane Lee between Highland and Perkins, build an additional road with bridge over Bayou Fountain between Lee and Kennilworth, extend Siegen/Burbank so it meets up with Bluebonnet near Springtree, extend Kennilworth to River Road in one direction and over 10/12 to Jefferson and maybe even Old Hammond in the other direction, and I would find a way to redo the Highland/Perkins/I-10 interchange so traffic on Perkins doesn’t have to merge on/off highland, possibly by building a flyover ramp from Perkins over I-10 to link up with Perkins again by the Home Depot.

The other crazy idea would be to make Siegen a controlled access highway through Highland, then have it link up with that extended road off the big curve to Bluebonnet, and put a new bridge right at Bluebonnet and Nicholson that would take people straight to Dow.

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My personal belief, and I'm not sure I'm right to be honest, but its more effective long term to build a new bridge south of BR that connects to existing road infrastructure that relieves some of the non city traffic on I-10.

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Airline Hwy from AP over Old Bridge then back to Interstate needs to be a Freeway. That seems like the easiest and most logical solution. Even if you build a new bridge south of BR it seems logical to also make Airline a freeway.

If the people in AP and LP lived in BR, the EBR and interstate street system would not be able to handle them. The system wasn’t designed for the metro of 250,000 that was there when it was built. There are now 800k people living there. The reality is that there have been minimal capacity increases since 1970 relative to the population increasing by 320%.
Thankfully, capacity along I-12 has increased 50% in that span. Capacity going south on I-10 is in the process of increasing 50% as well. Capacity going west has not increased at all, and neither has capacity at that obvious choke point, of which there are many.

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If the people in AP and LP lived in BR, the EBR and interstate street system would not be able to handle them. The system wasn’t designed for the metro of 250,000 that was there when it was built. There are now 800k people living there. The reality is that there have been minimal capacity increases since 1970 relative to the population increasing by 320%.
Thankfully, capacity along I-12 has increased 50% in that span. Capacity going south on I-10 is in the process of increasing 50% as well. Capacity going west has not increased at all, and neither has capacity at that obvious choke point, of which there are many.

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It would make public transportation / CATS much more used and viable.

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if that many people "lived in the City", you would have enough density and demand (and revenue) to have a viable mass transit system.

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Airline Hwy from AP over Old Bridge then back to Interstate needs to be a Freeway. That seems like the easiest and most logical solution. Even if you build a new bridge south of BR it seems logical to also make Airline a freeway.

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Yes, Airline should definitely be more of a limited-access, high capacity corridor.

I believe they are planning to connect Staring to 30 via the west end of Gardere already.

Before Harveston Bluebonnet should have been connected to Siegen via Burbank and then around the soccer complex.

NBR has enough infrastructure for thousands more folks but.,,,,

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This is true, but safety trumps all. If NBR was safe and didn’t smell so bad from Exxon and the dump, it would have way more people living there.

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East of Plank was OK, but the decay took its toll. That area of BR has a great grid network,

Normally parking lot layouts are in a Civil Engineer's purview.

I honestly think this is a problem for a Civil Engineer, Transportation Engineer, and/or City Planner.