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Posted on 1/26/23 at 9:43 am to Eli Goldfinger
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I would probably just move or change careers if I had to drive across that every day.
This will be an historic disaster.
If I'm looking for a job, no matter how good a fit career-wise or how good a company, if the job requires me to cross the bridge, it's not even in consideration.
This shitshow of a bridge/traffic situation limits economic prosperity in the greater Baton Rouge area in so many ways.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 9:46 am to lnomm34
Going to pull out my motorcycle out of storage and tune her up.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 9:51 am to lnomm34
Ferries like with wings?
About what it'd take.
A guy with the name "Pete Heine" actually proposed a loop when he ran for mayor decades ago.
Here's what the response was, "You're gonna have business that could stop at my restaurant or gas station just go around Baton Rouge and miss us altogether? Terrible idea!"
So BR elected do-nothing mayors like Woody Dumas and Tom Ed and we never got a loop - just some good ol' baws as mayor for two decades.
Oh, here's another BR politics story: we needed a sewer system. Someone proposed doing it with clay - Roman aqueduct is still there, what, couple thousand years later?
But there was a well-connected politically cement contractor who - surprise - got the gig. So we got a billion+ crumbling sewer system.
The Paul Harvey 'rest of that story' was the widow of the cement contractor was asked to donate a million or so to a local private school. "Sure. But I have an idea on the new name..." That's how "Dunham" came to be Dunham...
About what it'd take.
A guy with the name "Pete Heine" actually proposed a loop when he ran for mayor decades ago.
Here's what the response was, "You're gonna have business that could stop at my restaurant or gas station just go around Baton Rouge and miss us altogether? Terrible idea!"
So BR elected do-nothing mayors like Woody Dumas and Tom Ed and we never got a loop - just some good ol' baws as mayor for two decades.
Oh, here's another BR politics story: we needed a sewer system. Someone proposed doing it with clay - Roman aqueduct is still there, what, couple thousand years later?
But there was a well-connected politically cement contractor who - surprise - got the gig. So we got a billion+ crumbling sewer system.
The Paul Harvey 'rest of that story' was the widow of the cement contractor was asked to donate a million or so to a local private school. "Sure. But I have an idea on the new name..." That's how "Dunham" came to be Dunham...
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:00 am to thegambler
quote:It is time for the state to tell the parishes to frick off.
There will be no loop. Kip tried. Other parishes and citizens opposed a loop in such great numbers that it was shut down.
LA is such a mess.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:02 am to Eli Goldfinger
quote:I-10 is a major thoroughfare.
I would probably just move or change careers if I had to drive across that every day. This will be an historic disaster.
The state will frick this up so badly, the feds will likely get involved.
You can’t essentially shutdown a major interstate because your state is too moronic to build a loop.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:02 am to lnomm34
The good news is at least they haven’t completely butt fricked LA 1 from I-10 to Plaquemine
Oh wait
Oh wait
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:11 am to T
quote:
Also, with all the work planned for major surface streets BR will be non-drivable for a while.
Don’t think most even realize this, they’re doing Nicholson, Lee / college, Essen and bluebonnet I believe at the same time
Getting kids to all the private schools and people trying to get to work will be an even more all day affair.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:12 am to LSU-MNCBABY
quote:
Don’t think most even realize this, they’re doing Nicholson, Lee / college, Essen and bluebonnet I believe at the same time
Mother
Of
God
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:14 am to SlowFlowPro
Hyacinth just got torn down to gravel again after getting paved like 6 months ago for some reason
BR is closer to China than the US
BR is closer to China than the US
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:16 am to lnomm34
It is 2 ferries, they carry about 1500 people a day. About 150,000 cars cross the bridge a day.
Ferris lose millions of dollars a year because it is a $1 a car. Your tax dollars pick up the rest.
You are not good a math.
USCG will not allow any more ferries to run because of traffic on river.
Ferris lose millions of dollars a year because it is a $1 a car. Your tax dollars pick up the rest.
You are not good a math.
USCG will not allow any more ferries to run because of traffic on river.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:17 am to Sun God
My youngest will be driving by the time this starts. Sucks for her getting to school
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:17 am to ReadyPlayer1
quote:Double bonus you get to experience St. Mary Parish
Bonus I don't have to deal with the basin bridge.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:19 am to Pedro
I'm going to become real familiar with I49 on my trips to MS
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:19 am to jrodLSUke
quote:
How about working on that loop before you shut down I-10?
How about you figure out how to get Ascension to agree and a a way to figure out the 10s of billions of environmental cost, IF the Corps and the USCG agree. IF.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:19 am to Sun God
quote:
The good news is at least they haven’t completely butt fricked LA 1 from I-10 to Plaquemine
Oh wait
Muh settling’
That one really gets to me. After all the studies and all the roads we’ve built, we still have “unexpected” settling that will require an extra 10 months and God knows how much extra
Expense?
Shawn Wilson is as competent as Broom and her police chief. And yeah, I am Blaming him. Hes in charge. Deal with it.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:20 am to fallguy_1978
My youngest is 3 and will still be driving through this shite I’m sure
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:21 am to tigerinthebueche
That stretch south from I-10 to Brusly might as well be a theme park ride
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:22 am to winkchance
quote:It is amazing how TX can pull this off without issue, but LA is so incompetent that they can’t even get it started.
How about you figure out how to get Ascension to agree and a a way to figure out the 10s of billions of environmental cost, IF the Corps and the USCG agree. IF.
Posted on 1/26/23 at 10:22 am to lnomm34
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