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re: "Inner Loop" being studied, Mayor has a mad legislature wasn't clued in
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:09 am to kingbob
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:09 am to kingbob
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We need a southern loop that goes from Denham and roughly follows Bayou Manchac, crossing the Mississippi just south of Laberge
Would be SOOO much more expensive than..
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a northern loop that connects Denham to where 190, Airline, and 110 meet.
I think the northern loop is low hanging fruit. Not sure why they haven't done this. The southern loop would be good, too but i think you're going to have to pay a lot more. Just speculation, at this point.
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Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:09 am to Napoleon
It's filled with massive choke points that force travellors onto a few streets that are woefully inder capacity paired with an interstate system that makes no sense and the fact that one of the busiest bridge crossings in the entire world is only one f&%king lane wide.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:09 am to mikelbr
quote:Yeah, but that's a problem that might not ever get fixed.
The major fault with the BR interstate is the near 90 turn to get on to the bridge. It slows down traffic so much. Then the S curve on the 110.
Just a horrible layout rife with slow traffic problems
quote:Sounds like it. Texas does their shite and doesn't care who it messes with. But they have an enormous tax base. Is that Dallas Turnpike a toll facility that was privately funded or was it a TxDOT project?
That turnpike in Dallas went through TONS of NIMBY properties. What do they do differently so as to say "frick YOU NIMBY! ROAD'S COMING THROUGH YOUR shite."?
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:12 am to Asgard Device
I'm surprised it hasn't been considered seriously at all until now. I guess it wouldn't enrich the right people.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:14 am to dewster
In the late 1990s while I was an undergrad student a friend of mine found a map proposing this same northern loop dated from the mid 1970s
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:14 am to dewster
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I'm surprised it hasn't been considered seriously at all until now. I guess it wouldn't enrich the right people.
It has been in many forms, heck, that's what it was designed to be from the start, but the idiots in the city/parish government and DOTD kept letting roads put in traffic lights rather than overpasses and exits. Welcome to the present of future's past. This is what Airline was intended to be all along. Also, there were many discussions in the past of making it a "double decker" with a throughway on top.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:15 am to TROCKS50
Sounds like it. Texas does their shite and doesn't care who it messes with. But they have an enormous tax base. Is that Dallas Turnpike a toll facility that was privately funded or was it a TxDOT project?
The Dallas North Tollway was Originally a TxDOT project that still has tolls BUT paid itself off through them many years ago
The Dallas North Tollway was Originally a TxDOT project that still has tolls BUT paid itself off through them many years ago
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:18 am to kingbob
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It has been in many forms, heck, that's what it was designed to be from the start, but the idiots in the city/parish government and DOTD kept letting roads put in traffic lights rather than overpasses and exits. Welcome to the present of future's past. This is what Airline was intended to be all along. Also, there were many discussions in the past of making it a "double decker" with a throughway on top.
Yep. They built the cloverleaf interchange at Fla. Blvd in like the 40s or 50s.
The one at Greenwell Springs was not much later.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:20 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Yep. They built the cloverleaf interchange at Fla. Blvd in like the 40s or 50s.
The one at Greenwell Springs was not much later.
More like the 70s. In the 40s and 50s, it was a massive traffic circle, hence the name of the Bowling Alley "Circle Bowl"
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:25 am to Asgard Device
F Kip...He just mad he's not getting any of that "study" and "feasibility" money.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 11:37 am to kingbob
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All of the areas south of College are like this. We need more surface streets to connect College, Essen, Bluebonnet, and Siegan. We need an I-10 interchange at Pecue, we need more surface streets with overpasses over I-10. We need a bike path that follows Dawson's/Ward Creek from the LSU Lakes to the Mall of Louisiana. We need street cars that run from Nicholson @ Lee past the Capital to the Airport and from Cortana to the River Center, with a possible spur connecting LSU to the Overpass area to the Mall of Louisiana. We desperately need another lane on I-10 coming off the bridge into Baton Rouge. We need to 4 lane Nicholson past Lee. We need turn lanes at Nicholson and Lee. We need turn lanes on Highland road, or better yet, 4 lane it with an oak tree filled median. We need to sync the lights on Government and Airline. We need a southern loop that goes from Denham and roughly follows Bayou Manchac, crossing the Mississippi just south of Laberge. We need a northern loop that connects Denham to where 190, Airline, and 110 meet.
Pie in the sky but I agree with all of this...
Posted on 3/27/14 at 4:28 pm to The Sad Banana
Do not want. Would make my gameday commute problematic while they are working on the old bridge.
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