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re: Instant simple fix that would improve BR traffic
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:10 pm to NC17
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:10 pm to NC17
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4 lane Nicholson from the bridge to Gonzales. Build another bridge in St. Gabriel. That should take 20% of cars off the interstate during rush hour.
That would certainly decrease the Dow traffic. Can we also make the speed limit on Nicholson 70mph the whole way instead of 55mph as enforced by the St. Gabriel PD?
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:12 pm to terd ferguson
I would venture to guess that the vast majority is not people from within the CITY LIMITS of BR as was prescribed. However, interstate hoppers are necessary due to the cities complete lack of inter-connectivity on its southeastern side. We need more surface streets to connect and far more over/underpasses to get through I-10 and I-12.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:13 pm to Jim Rockford
How about fixing brightside at nicholson. The light for drivers on nicholson should either somehow get a turn lane, or one side should go at a time with automatic turns and then switch...to this day I have absolutely no idea why the morons that can fix this intersection haven't yet.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:14 pm to kingbob
I think a bridge paralleling the existing I-10 bridge with four lanes for East bound traffic along with converting the existing bridge into a West bound only bridge is in order. The existing bridge could also have two lanes for emergency traffic and busses.
On the West bank you would redesign La. 1 and have it meet I-10 at 415 and build a new interchange there. 415 would continue North as a limited access highway with service roads to 190. La 1 South would be revised with a by-pass around Plaquemine to facilitate the start of a Westbank Expressway.
On the East side the 110/10 interchange would be redesigned. Washington Street exit would go. further East 10 would be widened to Acadian. Both Perkins Road ramps would go. Acadian exit would be upgraded as would Dalrymple.
On the West bank you would redesign La. 1 and have it meet I-10 at 415 and build a new interchange there. 415 would continue North as a limited access highway with service roads to 190. La 1 South would be revised with a by-pass around Plaquemine to facilitate the start of a Westbank Expressway.
On the East side the 110/10 interchange would be redesigned. Washington Street exit would go. further East 10 would be widened to Acadian. Both Perkins Road ramps would go. Acadian exit would be upgraded as would Dalrymple.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:16 pm to Brageous
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How about fixing brightside at nicholson. The light for drivers on nicholson should either somehow get a turn lane, or one side should go at a time with automatic turns and then switch...to this day I have absolutely no idea why the morons that can fix this intersection haven't yet.
It can not be done. I believe that intersection is protected somewhere in the state Constitution.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:17 pm to Brageous
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How about fixing brightside at nicholson. The light for drivers on nicholson should either somehow get a turn lane, or one side should go at a time with automatic turns and then switch...to this day I have absolutely no idea why the morons that can fix this intersection haven't yet.
It's the bottleneck that happens at the railroad that fricks everything up.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:18 pm to Jim Rockford
Take away everyone's driver's license in BR... 
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:18 pm to Jim Rockford
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Coming off the bridge EB at the 10-110 split, the sign points to the left lane for I-10, right lane for I-12.
Picture?
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:19 pm to Jim Rockford
Sharp curve + reduce to one lane is what causes the backup. Add to that all the interstate traffic combining with intrastate traffic.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:19 pm to magildachunks
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It's the bottleneck that happens at the railroad that fricks everything up.
That makes sense. I would be interested to see it at least tested out, though. I imagine people turning into campus crossings is the main reason.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:20 pm to doubleb
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It can not be done. I believe that intersection is protected somewhere in the state Constitution.
Railroad company won't let them shut the railroad down for construction.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:20 pm to Brageous
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How about fixing brightside at nicholson. The light for drivers on nicholson should either somehow get a turn lane, or one side should go at a time with automatic turns and then switch...to this day I have absolutely no idea why the morons that can fix this intersection haven't yet.
2 words: rail roads
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:23 pm to magildachunks
The railroad can't stop them from making the right lanes on La. 30 (Nicholson) straight or right turn and the left lanes dedicated left turns only with an arrow.
That should have been done 30 years ago.
That's not the perfect solution but its 10Xs better than the mess we have now.
That should have been done 30 years ago.
That's not the perfect solution but its 10Xs better than the mess we have now.
This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:27 pm to magildachunks
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So your plan is to build another fricking bridge?
Why not utilize Sunshine or Veterans?
Peel a southern loop off at Grosse Tete, go South and East until you are just south of Plaquemine then drop a bridge at St. Gabe. Take the loop through Prairieville then curve up to Livingston.
Sunshine is not only too far to do any good but you would just transfer some of the traffic clusterfrick from BR down through the equally clusterfricked LA1 (Brusly, Addis, Plaquemine, WC, DVille). Veterans would be even farther (although not as clusterfricked).
Dropping a bridge at St. Gabe allows for not just passthrough traffic to get around the city, but 4-lane (or 6-lane) Nicholson down to it and you remove a chunk of LSU commuter traffic as well as provide a new, major artery for gameday/BayouCountrySuperFest folks to use. It also sets up all that land along that corridor for an explosion of expansion (since that's where a lot of expansion is already going, the smart money is to feed that beast).
This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:30 pm to Jim Rockford
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That sign doesn't exactly mean what you think it means.
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That was my point.
Why do you assume that everyone is misreading the sign??
It simply means that to go to 10 or 12 you need to be in the one of the 2 right hand lanes. It doesn't specify which one.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:30 pm to Rex
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Picture?
Boy that was hard.
Picture you could go fricking streetview
This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:31 pm to doubleb
That's what I was getting at. Let Nicholson traffic going north go all at once and then let the traffic going south go all at once instead of both with cars turning left creating all sorts of back up.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:32 pm to Bard
Yes!!!!!!
That's exactly what I'm about doing too!
Sunshine Bridge is a cluster right now. They may never be done with that thing.
That's exactly what I'm about doing too!
Sunshine Bridge is a cluster right now. They may never be done with that thing.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:34 pm to MikeBRLA
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Why do you assume that everyone is misreading the sign?? It simply means that to go to 10 or 12 you need to be in the one of the 2 right hand lanes. It doesn't specify which one.
It has an arrow pointing to the right lane for Hammond and the left lane for New Orleans. If you're seeing it for the first time, you're going to think you need to be in the left lane to go to New Orleans, when you don't have to make that move until way down the road past College Drive.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:38 pm to Jim Rockford
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It has an arrow pointing to the right lane for Hammond and the left lane for New Orleans. If you're seeing it for the first time, you're going to think you need to be in the left lane to go to New Orleans, when you don't have to make that move until way down the road past College Drive.
I agree. If that wasn't in BR, my mom would frick that up bad and stay far left thinking it was I-10 until it was coming up on her at 70 mph and go OHHH shite and cuss and scream.
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