re: Committee shoots down proposal for new Lake Charles I-10 Bridge

Well then it’ll never get done because the Lake Charles area gets none of the state money for anything whether it’s hurricane or infrastructure

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What was the reason for the objection? Why did 8 members vote against it?

Article is light on details.

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Sadly that’s the state of modern journalism. Lead with the provocative statements and leave off any meaningful details.

It must be where women learn to communicate.

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Texas is gonna have to annex Lake Charles and fix the interstate for us.

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The state that has a ton of toll roads? Lmao

Why a pay a toll to beat the stuffings out of your vehicle before Laffy.
If going westbound, why pay to leave the state. The way things are going with state self-interests and disorganization, the state should pay us for leaving.

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People paid to cross the ferry for years which helped fund that bridge.

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It's long been a priority of the state to replace ferry boats with bridges since even before the Luling disaster. However - ferry tolls didn't contribute much, if anything to those new bridge crossings. If that were the case, the bridge in Plaquemine would have long been built by now.

In the 1980s, there were very powerful people in the legislature and in the first Edwards administration from New Roads/False River. They got the Audubon Bridge moved up in priority among dozens of other state projects at the expense of a bypass around Baton Rouge. When the New Orleans political interests started torpedoing major infrastructure projects outside of the city, only the Audubon Bridge and a few others remained. There was enough political pull to make sure the priority was still there when the TIMED program was codified into law by voters. TIMED was the largest infrastructure package every funded by the state of Louisiana - and the Audubon bridge was the largest bridge project in that whole program. Design work began almost immediately; but construction of the bridge and its approaches were not completed until 20 years later.

That area had been talking about and pushing a bridge connecting New Roads and St. Francisville since the 1960s. Normal, garden variety politics got that bridge built. There was plenty of cash going around (unlike today) and they shielded funding for that bridge project from being reallocated to some bullshite projects around New Orleans. Baton Rouge and Lake Charles were not so lucky.

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Why not that’s the only way this thing will pass. Give the 5 parish area a break and make non local traffic pay a small fee for using it

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if you havent dealt with tolls then dont comment. They build up so much more than you can imagine when you are forced to use them.

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The local delegation was against any tolls that didn't directly go in their pockets.

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Fixed. We all know it was voted down because someone isn't getting their cut.

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Article is light on details.

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That's every local news source - including and especially the Baton Rouge Advocate.

If you don’t have to travel that death trap everyday don’t comment. This thing needs to be built sooner rather than later if it takes a toll then so be it