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In four years we could have a bridge location
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:17 pm
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:17 pm
for a new Miss River Bridge in the BR area.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Consultants working to help the state build a new bridge may not select a location for Baton Rouge’s third crossing for another four years, according to the Louisiana Department of Transportation (DOTD).
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Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:17 pm to doubleb
My great grandkids are going to love using that bridge
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:18 pm to doubleb
So we could have the actual bridge in forty years. Seems about right
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:19 pm to doubleb
Louisiana will be underwater by the time a new bridge is built
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:22 pm to doubleb
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The state selected Atlas Technical Consultants
Four years from now everyone will be saying “At’las we have a bridge location.”
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:23 pm to doubleb
People will still be calling Mall of Louisiana “the new mall” when that bridge is finished.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:23 pm to doubleb
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Consultants
Lol
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:31 pm to Tactical1
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People will still be calling Mall of Louisiana “the new mall” when that bridge is finished.
But what will the "new bridge" be called when it's not the newest one anymore?
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:32 pm to jennyjones
The Horace Wilkinson Bridge.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:34 pm to doubleb
The New New Bridge.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:41 pm to ehidal1
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My great grandkids are going to love using that bridge
Or die in a collapse of the current one.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:41 pm to doubleb
What a complete goat frick Baton Rouge DOTD is. And it isn’t just about the bridge project.
The underhanded and despicable process to have something agreed upon for the projects in and around this city is criminal. Any group that has Fred Raford serving the public should be investigated for fraud. He has been a worthless POS for years and is like someone’s cousins nephew that keeps being employed as a favor to someone else.
Also, how do you have a process that enables one person to make a decision on something like this. And then he picks the company of a billionaire whose proposal finished third in the process! Good grief! Bernhard is going to rape the state twice on this one. We will pay him for doing research and work to build it and then he is going to finance a portion of it also??? What is his current interest rate and terms? Is there a pre-payment penalty? Holy crap!
I will vote for the next person that promises to do the right and begin. I just want to see dirt moving. Pick a spot and grab a shovel.
The underhanded and despicable process to have something agreed upon for the projects in and around this city is criminal. Any group that has Fred Raford serving the public should be investigated for fraud. He has been a worthless POS for years and is like someone’s cousins nephew that keeps being employed as a favor to someone else.
Also, how do you have a process that enables one person to make a decision on something like this. And then he picks the company of a billionaire whose proposal finished third in the process! Good grief! Bernhard is going to rape the state twice on this one. We will pay him for doing research and work to build it and then he is going to finance a portion of it also??? What is his current interest rate and terms? Is there a pre-payment penalty? Holy crap!
I will vote for the next person that promises to do the right and begin. I just want to see dirt moving. Pick a spot and grab a shovel.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:58 pm to burdman
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Louisiana will be underwater by the time a new bridge is built
I mean...it is a bridge...just going to have be much longer.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 12:17 am to doubleb
I remember around 1998 when they were at this phase of planning a new bridge north of Monroe. Everyone was a little excited.
Then the mayor came and spoke to us at a managers meeting. We asked about it. He said, "Realistically, it won't happen before 2012." Of course, we weren't happy to hear that.
Still not there, and there is no longer any talk about it that I know of.
Then the mayor came and spoke to us at a managers meeting. We asked about it. He said, "Realistically, it won't happen before 2012." Of course, we weren't happy to hear that.
Still not there, and there is no longer any talk about it that I know of.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 12:20 am to doubleb
This is such bullshite. Put it in Plaquemine and have it stretch across to Baton Rouge around the Bluebonnet area
Posted on 1/28/20 at 1:13 am to doubleb
The next major approved project should be the I-14 corridor along Highway 28!
Posted on 1/28/20 at 1:31 am to jeffsdad
Sometimes it makes a man wish that a vicious bulldog of a man would come in, tear through all the red tape of the bureaucrats and just make something happen, damn the fat cats trying to line their pockets.
Get men out there driving pylons, laying steel, having something, anything happen.
Damn who is pissed off they didn’t get their cut, dam the brother in laws that didn’t get the contract. But by god have something to show for all the nonsense.
Strong, decisive action, even if it isn’t optimal, is better than endless meetings and studies and plans.
Men can Cross a bridge. . We can’t Cross endless promises that never come to fruition.
Get men out there driving pylons, laying steel, having something, anything happen.
Damn who is pissed off they didn’t get their cut, dam the brother in laws that didn’t get the contract. But by god have something to show for all the nonsense.
Strong, decisive action, even if it isn’t optimal, is better than endless meetings and studies and plans.
Men can Cross a bridge. . We can’t Cross endless promises that never come to fruition.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 1:37 am to Booyow
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Four years from now everyone will be saying “At’las we have a bridge location.”
Maybe the state will decide at some point a location build the main structure over the river. Then run out of money to build approach spans to the main structure. Then find enough money to build the approach spans and build only 2 lane roads to the bridge.
Sadly, this happened with the Gramercy Wallace Bridge. Construction started in the early 1980s. The center span took nearly a decade to finish the middle section. Then a few years went by and the main approaches were built by 1995 and the bridge opened. It opened with a dead end on the west bank and a hairpin turn taking you back to river road. At least on the east bank there was a decent intersection and 4 laning to Airline Highway. Another 10 or 15 years would go by and 2 lane extension to extend the dead end to 3127 was finally ??????pleated.
I can remember reading about studies in the early 90s about this bridge and a proposed 4 lane or 2 lane road that would extend down all the way down to Thibodaux and then to US 90.
Of course we are still waiting for that section. Maybe that section will be done by 2030 or 2040.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 1:50 am to Tarps99
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Maybe the state will decide at some point a location build the main structure over the river. Then run out of money to build approach spans to the main structure. Then find enough money to build the approach spans and build only 2 lane roads to the bridge.
Maybe it will take something more than the sackless, feckless politicians that seem to perpetually haunt the halls of the Capitol.
Make it a national issue.
We have an interstate that bottlenecks down to a single lane over the largest body of water in North America. Old Man River threatens to spill his banks every year, and when he does he’ll cut the south in half.
So instead of waiting for the inevitable to happen, take some action and make a grand new crossing before it’s too late.
That or build a bridge so big it bypasses all the bullshite and crosses over everything
Posted on 1/28/20 at 1:58 am to doubleb
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Consultants working to help the state build a new bridge may not select a location for Baton Rouge’s third crossing for another four years, according to the Louisiana Department of Transportation (DOTD).
Which means it would be another 5 before work started and 5 more before it’s finished. Come on 2035!
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