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re: DOTD announces I10 to be shut down to 1 lane for up to a year starting in 2023
Posted on 8/24/22 at 10:42 pm to stewie
Posted on 8/24/22 at 10:42 pm to stewie
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This can’t be real…
There’s no way they are going to shut down a 6 lane interstate to 2.
It’s very real and LADOTD doesn’t give two shits about it. Coleman Brown has a infinitely better plan and they will not even give him an audience.
Every single concern brought up is dismissed by them.
Look at their response to the valid concern of what happens during a Hurricane evacuation when I-10 has always been one of the main corridors used. It was something along the lines of, “Well, people just need to plan on going north”.
They don’t care. They are sitting in their offices laughing at us.
The main players at DOTD should be required to drive through that clusterfrick every single day until it’s finished. frick them
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Posted on 8/24/22 at 10:52 pm to SPEEDY
quote:I wonder.....do you know where the DOTD office is?
They don’t care. They are sitting in their offices laughing at us.
The main players at DOTD should be required to drive through that clusterfrick every single day until it’s finished. frick them
Posted on 8/24/22 at 10:58 pm to CarRamrod
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I wonder.....do you know where the DOTD office is?
Yes. And if you live in Zachary, Livingston, Ascension, or the Felicianas, you can get to it without ever having to get onto I-10
Posted on 8/24/22 at 11:00 pm to gsvar2004
Thanksgiving traffic will be hell.
Posted on 8/24/22 at 11:12 pm to pwejr88
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“All good. I’ll just take the surface streets.” Sincerely, 200k people in Baton Rouge
Yeah, we’re re-doing most of those as well lol. Dalrymple, Acadian, Perkins. Acadian ramp on Perkins getting 86ed. All ramps on 10, EB & WB. Hold onto your asses, gonna be a bumpy ride
This post was edited on 8/24/22 at 11:15 pm
Posted on 8/24/22 at 11:19 pm to member12
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He embarrassingly horrific widening project wasn’t from the split to highland. It was only from Siegen to Highland.
Thank you. There are no overpasses between Siegen and Highland. It was a 3 year shitshow.
Posted on 8/24/22 at 11:19 pm to mikelbr
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There are no overpasses between Siegen and Highland.
Bridge over the railroad
Posted on 8/24/22 at 11:20 pm to The Boat
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The split to Highland has 5 overpasses and 4 interchanges. Highland to 73 has none of either. Not close to the same complexity of project.
Except those are separate projects a decade a part. The split to Siegen was widened almost 20 yrs ago. Siegen to Highland was under 10 yrs ago and a slow fricking shite show that saw the original contractors fired. And no overpasses.
This post was edited on 8/24/22 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 8/24/22 at 11:26 pm to The Boat
quote:if you wanna count that, fine.
Bridge over the railroad
Fun fact. We just moved to village st George when 10 was being built between Siegen and Highland. My dad worked for DOTD and was working on the project. He would come home during shifts for lunch and such. And he'd listen for the pile driver at the Ward Creek bridge as his cue to come back to work.
Posted on 8/24/22 at 11:32 pm to gsvar2004
You’re going to see a significant contraction in the Baton Rouge area economy during this construction. It’s not just gonna be the businesses under the Perkins Rd. overpass, it’s going to be all through the metro area. People just don’t understand how much more time it will take to commute not only east/west but north/south as well. It’s going to be somewhat similar to how it was in BR 3-4 days after Katrina when a 15 minute drive became 1+ hours.
If I had a magic wand I’d first (1) complete I-49 to NOLA and (2) jackhammer the dumbass medians and bike lanes on Government St. before this project starts.
Thanks for listening.
If I had a magic wand I’d first (1) complete I-49 to NOLA and (2) jackhammer the dumbass medians and bike lanes on Government St. before this project starts.
Thanks for listening.
Posted on 8/24/22 at 11:34 pm to mikelbr
Funny, sometimes when I’m at lunch, I can hear the sounds of people complaining about traffic & what they’d do and I know it’s my cue
Posted on 8/24/22 at 11:55 pm to gsvar2004
If DOTD wants to go forward with the I-10 project, then before they do it, they should expand Airline Highway to 3 lanes through BR and synchronize the traffic lights so there is a viable alt route between LA 415 and I-12.
Otherwise, they should go back to the drawing board and use the existing infrastructure to expand capacity.
Otherwise, they should go back to the drawing board and use the existing infrastructure to expand capacity.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 12:00 am to Riverside
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Otherwise, they should go back to the drawing board and use the existing infrastructure to expand capacity.
The existing is mostly elevated. It’s a bridge. It’s capacity is at capacity
Posted on 8/25/22 at 12:06 am to SPEEDY
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It’s very real and LADOTD doesn’t give two shits about it.
They would if this were the headline…
Posted on 8/25/22 at 12:12 am to Schmelly
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The existing is mostly elevated. It’s a bridge. It’s capacity is at capacity
They have the technology to expand elevated roadways. In fact, they even expanded the Huey P. Let's figure out how to expand what we have by adding some additional lanes to what is there. This current plan is going to kill Baton Rouge. The medicine is not worth the cure.
DOTD has a prior history with preferring to build new structures instead of expanding old ones. The Highland Road overpass was a prime example of this. We didn't need a new overpass there. DOTD had studies that showed the existing overpass could easily be expanded to add additional lanes.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 12:14 am to LSU-MNCBABY
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Doesn’t give a frick and is Getting paid out their arse and will make this project last 10x longer than needed to milk every penny out of it
It’s a CMAR project sooooo, you’re an idiot. Time is money…outta the pockets of whoever builds it
This post was edited on 8/25/22 at 12:15 am
Posted on 8/25/22 at 12:16 am to Riverside
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They have the technology to expand elevated roadways. In fact, they even expanded the Huey P. Let's figure out how to expand what we have by adding some additional lanes to what is there.
That’s what I’m trying to say. That’s what’s being done. Maybe I didn’t word it right.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 12:17 am to Schmelly
I read that DOTD was basically going to demo the overpass entirely and build new ones from the ground up, hence the need to transfer traffic onto a single side. Maybe I'm wrong though. There's a rival plan that DOTD has basically refused to consider that proposes just adding a lane to what we have and not doing a total demo.
This post was edited on 8/25/22 at 12:19 am
Posted on 8/25/22 at 12:24 am to Riverside
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This post was edited on 8/25/22 at 12:28 am
Posted on 8/25/22 at 2:35 am to Tigerpaw123
I have a private chopper so this won’t affect me at all. Sucks to be poor I guess
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