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re: Final three routes for new bridge released.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 9:05 am to H2O Tiger
Posted on 5/28/22 at 9:05 am to H2O Tiger
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I'm 28 and I'm still waiting for them to finish I-49 through Shreveport
I'm in my 50s and still waiting for them to finish I-49 through Shreveport. They were talking about it in the 80s.
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Posted on 5/28/22 at 9:22 am to SPEEDY
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CLOSE THE WASHINGTON STREET EXIT!!!!
Lots of commuters use that exit. You’ll just push the volume downstream
It looks like the proposed new bridge location won’t do crap for daily commuters. Is it time to discuss an elevated “bypass” that runs the current route but over the local traffic?
Posted on 5/28/22 at 9:54 am to lostinbr
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This mentality is exactly what got us here in the first place. You’re basically saying “if we didn’t have to deal with the traffic that the interstate was built for in the first place, this is a different ballgame.” We need to be giving commuters alternative routes so that they don’t have to get on the interstate.
That being said, I don’t agree with putting the bridge south of Plaquemine. That seems silly to me unless the city of Plaquemine is planning on raising the speed limit on LA1 by about 30 mph
They predict initially over 24,000 vehicles a day will use the new bridge.
The bridge can’t be built in a vacuum. Improvements on the west and east banks will have to be planned and developed in conjunction with the opening of the bridge. You can’t just dump traffic on 1 and 30 as they are now and think you have done any good.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 9:56 am to baldona
You have a lot of daily commuters who live on the east bank, but work on the West Bank.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 10:51 am to doubleb
The proposed location will alleviate a portion of local commuter traffic.
The current expansions of the 10 bridge to Acadian will help with through traffic. This also includes the Washington street exit.
Caveat, 1 and 30 need serious improvements if this is to happen. They need to be treated as an extension of the interstate.
12 also needs a 4th lane all the way past Walker.
10 should be 3 lanes to Sorrento.
All said, 3-5B to make a dent.
Edit: Airline should be rebuilt as 3 lanes each way, interstate style with feeders. Airline should have no stops and should have an easy connect with 10 in Baton Rouge and it’s southern connection.
The current expansions of the 10 bridge to Acadian will help with through traffic. This also includes the Washington street exit.
Caveat, 1 and 30 need serious improvements if this is to happen. They need to be treated as an extension of the interstate.
12 also needs a 4th lane all the way past Walker.
10 should be 3 lanes to Sorrento.
All said, 3-5B to make a dent.
Edit: Airline should be rebuilt as 3 lanes each way, interstate style with feeders. Airline should have no stops and should have an easy connect with 10 in Baton Rouge and it’s southern connection.
This post was edited on 5/28/22 at 11:00 am
Posted on 5/28/22 at 1:00 pm to fjlee90
Correct, the Washington St exit is not being eliminated. Just rebuilt. There will be 3 lanes of flowing traffic all the way from the bridge to College.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 2:14 pm to Slippy
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Correct, the Washington St exit is not being eliminated. Just rebuilt. There will be 3 lanes of flowing traffic all the way from the bridge to College.
Are you sure? I thought they built the Terrace Street exit so they could eliminate the Washington Street exit.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 2:34 pm to armytiger96
They built the Terrace street exit to keep the northsiders from trying to cross 4 lanes of traffic to go see their baby mommas and drug dealers on the bottom.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 2:52 pm to Slippy
What sucks is most of the truck traffic through BR is bridge, to I-12. It might help those commuting from WBR and the AP but it’s not going to do much for the BR proper traffic. What we need in BR is a NE loop or bypass of some sort that connects to 12.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:01 pm to td1
When the first bridge in BR opened they added a by pass so traffic could avoid BR proper. We know that now as Airline. It allowed bridge traffic to connect to Jefferson Hwy. at the Nesser interchange.
Eventually they continued that by pass to Airline Hwy and on to NO.
Unfortunately the second BR bridge went right through BR. No by-pass was designed, but instead they built a spur through the middle of the city and a new interstate on the edge of an urban center in the direction the city was growing.
There was little vision.
Eventually they continued that by pass to Airline Hwy and on to NO.
Unfortunately the second BR bridge went right through BR. No by-pass was designed, but instead they built a spur through the middle of the city and a new interstate on the edge of an urban center in the direction the city was growing.
There was little vision.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:06 pm to Slippy
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They built the Terrace street exit to keep the northsiders from trying to cross 4 lanes of traffic to go see their baby mommas and drug dealers on the bottom.
Won’t stop them. They still need to ‘Get Gordon’d or C Jack’ for their pay day.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:10 pm to Slippy
Well I know which area the people that pocketed the cash for these “studies” all live in.
Fml. I can’t wait to gtfo of this steaming turd of a state.
Fml. I can’t wait to gtfo of this steaming turd of a state.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:14 pm to fjlee90
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12 also needs a 4th lane all the way past Walker.
All the way past Livingston.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:14 pm to ChickennBiscuits
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Either this is a complete fabrication or the Texans you know are morons.
I don't think you understand how badly people want to avoid Baton Rouge when trying to get across the state.
Also this is being proposed as a bypass, not a remedy for city traffic or commuters necessarily. There are two bridges and interstates that would adequately allow commuter and intra city travel if the trucks and the flow through traffic were allowed to go around the city, rather than clogging everything up (which leads to people clogging the city streets trying to avoid the interstate because it is faster). I don't see how its that hard to comprehend.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:17 pm to BorrisMart
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Also this is being proposed as a bypass
According to DOTD that’s not the case. It is proposed to be an alternate for commuters initially taking over 24K cars off the 10 bridge.
Sure eventually it could be made into a bypass but that isn’t job one.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:22 pm to doubleb
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According to DOTD that’s not the case. It is proposed to be an alternate for commuters initially taking over 24K cars off the 10 bridge.
Sure eventually it could be made into a bypass but that isn’t job one.
Then things must have changed the last few months. If it's built solely for people to cross the bridge further south, it's not going to do anything. Even on the proposed routes, connect 10 to 10 and 12, even on the southern side and It would help tremendously.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:36 pm to BorrisMart
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Then things must have changed the last few months. If it's built solely for people to cross the bridge further south, it's not going to do anything. Even on the proposed routes, connect 10 to 10 and 12, even on the southern side and It would help tremendously.
Their studies have over 24,000 cars a day using the bridge.
If you believe 80% of those cars would be taken off the 10 bridge you have improved traffic. Widening 10 through BR as they are doing now will also improve traffic. That’s two big deals.
I guarantee you that a lot of plant workers who live on the east side would certainly use the new bridge instead of the ones we have now. Of course it would have to be accessible on each side of the river.
And I understand your strategy. Eventually it might happen, but the bridge would be built and opened before all that could be done.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:43 pm to Slippy
I’m glad I don’t drive on hwy 1 very often. That road is going to be a parking lot.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 3:47 pm to Undertow
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’m glad I don’t drive on hwy 1 very often. That road is going to be a parking lot.
Going to be? It is now.
Posted on 5/28/22 at 4:39 pm to Tigeralum2008
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CLOSE THE WASHINGTON STREET EXIT!!!!
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Lots of commuters use that exit. You’ll just push the volume downstream
bullshite
If you are a commuter traveling S/B on I-110, then exit your arse on the hardly used $10 million Terrace Street exit that was just built.
If you are coming over the bridge, then take the Highland/Nicholson exit
The commuters using the Washington Street exit are doing nothing but causing traffic issues on the bridge. Assholes crossing 3 lanes of traffic on I-110 to exit there when they just passed a brand new exit 200’ before that.
frick that.
Anywhere you need to get to from the Washington Street exit can be reached from the two exits i mentioned
CLOSE WASHINGTON STREET EXIT!!
And then turn that off ramp lane into another lane for I-10 EB to tie into the new widening project to eliminate that funnel
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