re: Interstate 14 being proposed

This is a terrible idea.
Improving portions of 10, 12 and 20 with either widening, loops, larger bridges and better surfaces would be far more beneficial and cost a fraction of building and maintaining an entirely new interstate.

Ah yes the military superhighway. Maybe the pentagon can pay for it. If we quit acting like the world police and brought most of our troops home, the savings could probably pay for this in a year or two.

I'm not opposed to this idea but we have much more pressing highway needs in LA.

If they want to build it as a toll road, knock themselves out.

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it would reduce poverty

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I don't know about that, but it could definitely bring jobs in distribution, warehousing, and freight in areas where I-14 passes near existing north-south highways.

Alexandria and especially Brookhaven would be the ideal place for distribution centers, since they could easily reach markets in Memphis, New Orleans, Shreveport, Jackson, and Baton Rouge.

It would have bigger impact for the areas within a few hour's drive from Atlanta, Mobile, and Birmingham.

I could also see the areas along the route marketed for durable goods manufacturing if they have rail access (particularly for automobile and automobile component production) given their proximity to new plants in the southern US.

I guess all of this is irrelevant for us since it will take at least 30 years to finish the I-14.

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Improving portions of 10, 12 and 20 with either widening, loops, larger bridges and better surfaces would be far more beneficial and cost a fraction of building and maintaining an entirely new interstate.

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I agree with that.

Unfortunately, creating alternative routes to I-10 in current and future joke points in Mobile, Baton Rouge, Beaumont, etc. just isn't a political priority.

There are so few alternative routes to I-10 and I-12 in south Louisiana that the whole region will probably be a choke point in the not to distant future.

We’d be better off spending the money on 8 lane-ing I-10 and 12 from the Sabine to the Pearl.

Last week, in a thread about the chemical plants being planned in St James Parish, someone said that the state is looking at 4 laning hwy 3127 from I310 to Donaldsonville and extending it all the way to I 10 in Grosse Tete. I think this is something that should be done ASAP, as it would provide a bypass around BR for traffic heading toward Lafayette.

Would rather finish I 49 Shreveport to Ft. Smith

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Would rather finish I 49 Shreveport to Ft. Smith

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You’ll be waiting for decades for that. Arkansas is in no hurry to build through the hills and “mountains” between Texarkana and Ft Smith.

I wish Louisiana would extend 49 from 220 to 20 through the ghetto but Shreveport thought that would be racist.

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Last week, in a thread about the chemical plants being planned in St James Parish, someone said that the state is looking at 4 laning hwy 3127 from I310 to Donaldsonville and extending it all the way to I 10 in Grosse Tete. I think this is something that should be done ASAP, as it would provide a bypass around BR for traffic heading toward Lafayette.

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Anyone ever wonder why I-55 wasn't built on the west side of Maurepas to connect in with the Gramercy or Sunshine bridges?

Our state at work....

This would get coastal traffic from Cali. off of I-10 at Fort Stockton and avoid San Antonio, Houston, Beaumont, Lake Charles and Baton Rouge. How could this NOT be a boon?

Plus connecting the military bases more directly has always been a directive of the interstate program.