re: Ferries Will Save Traffic Nightmare When I-10 in BR Goes to One-Lane during Construction

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Have you driven I-10 across the Sabine in Texas in the last 30 years?

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I am referring to loops.

Yes, that stretch of I-10 blows hard, although last I drove it, they were actually working on it.

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I'm going to become real familiar with I49 on my trips to MS

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Gameday pizza in Patterson, FTW

Theres a picture of young Pedro in there FWIW

The only way that works is if they were to run 4-5 ferries at a time, like they do on the Galveston Ferry, but I don't think river traffic would allow for that.

I think the state needs to invest in a plan for cross country traffic to take (headed westbound) 12 to 61 to 190 across the old bridge to 1 back to 10.

Westbound 1 South to the Sunshine Bridge and back to 10, again with traffic control improvements and officers to help move traffic along.

Offer the truckers some kind of incentive to make up for additional fuel used, perhaps a rebate of state fuel excise taxes up to a certain amount.

Invest in updating light sequencing and possibly even traffic control officers during certain parts of each day to keep the trafic moving.

If you can make a serious effort to get a major number of trucks off that portion of I-10 completely, it might be as terrible. But that's going to be hard to do.

Can they stand up a floating dock at Port Allen that fast?

Wonder if they can have a ferry run from Plaquemine to downtown or from Port Allen to downtown. At least to get some traffic off I-10.

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Offer the truckers some kind of incentive to make up for additional fuel used, perhaps a rebate of state fuel excise taxes up to a certain amount.

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How about charging them a big friggin toll if they don't take an alternate route? We should be charging truckers a toll to drive thru BR during daylight hours right now.

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I-10 is a major thoroughfare.

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.

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Feds: Yea you cant just frick up country wide commerce because your too stupid to build a loop.

Louisiana: Sorry not enough money (lolz)

Feds: Here's a check

Yep. I know everyone shite on c on z b/c it's him but this idea that truckers will be 'encouraged' to bypass Baton Rouge all together won't be all that unrealistic for a year or two.

From Houston to Atlanta it's not that big a deal to bypass a city that you can expect to spend an hour getting through anyhow. Granted some hazardous cargo and other shite headed to Jacksonville/South Florida will likely come through Baton Rouge. But most trucks can take the 806 mile route from Houston to Atlanta and cost them a whole 13 miles and 45 minutes which would probably be better than sitting in BR Traffic during that time.

The OT is pretty retarded sometimes.

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I found a solution!!

could always do as Nepal does

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That music and this comment cracked me up

Two words

Pontoon Bridge

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Not to mention, from St francisville to 42 to denham is roughly 660000 people. Do you have any idea of the amount of resources trucked in to keep that area fed, clothed, fueled, and able to buy useless shite?

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Yes I do. This idea to help reduce vehicles on I-10 is specifically talking about trucks going THROUGH Baton Rouge. Don't you move the goalposts here, buddy.