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re: Lake Charles/I-10 Bridge Question
Posted on 3/7/23 at 7:33 am to captainahab
Posted on 3/7/23 at 7:33 am to captainahab
Could be worse and be a toll bridge and have to pay 4 dollars every time you cross it.
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Posted on 3/7/23 at 7:34 am to LSUgusto
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The Army Corps only dredges just past the bridge (not far). Plus, there's really not much land beyond that to develop major projects.
In the 1980's a proposed bauxite plant for the then closed rice mill at the north end of Kirkman. The bauxite was going to imported from the UK on ships. While the channel wasn't maintained to 40 feet depth beyond the turning basin off what was then Dresser Minerals and its imports from places like Brazil, it was still navigable by ships which would dock at Dresser (later the Isle of Capri)
An uncle was a 1/3 partner in the proposed new business. The British owner declined to sell his mine at the last minute so the entire proposal was scrapped. The other partners were a subsidiary of British conglomerate P&O, and German Klockner, a steel and trading company.
Posted on 3/7/23 at 7:55 am to CitizenK
It,will be a toll bridge
Posted on 3/7/23 at 8:20 am to bigwheel
The train track next to the bridge is maybe 10ft above the water. Fish there a lot and if we head south on a high tide we have to duck to get under the train track, in a bass boat. The track bridge is a draw bridge of some sort.
Posted on 3/7/23 at 8:58 am to bigwheel
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It,will be a toll bridge
No disagreement the current bridge should have been replaced years ago, but they are hell-bent on building a toll bridge because they want to build a "modern art masterpiece" instead of a simple 6 lane span that will accomplish the same thing and could be built without a toll.
Lake Charles shame that it will be the only part of I-10 from Jacksonville, FL to Los Angeles that will have a toll on motorists to drive over a canal.
This post was edited on 3/7/23 at 9:55 am
Posted on 3/7/23 at 9:28 am to Traveler
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No disagreement the current bridge should have been replaced years ago, but they are hell-bent on building a toll bridge because they want to build a "modern art masterpiece" instead of a simple 6 lane span that will accomplish the same thing and could be built without a toll.
Exactly....typical LA wants to see how creative it can get. A new bridge needs to be tall enough for barge traffic and that is it.
Posted on 3/7/23 at 9:41 am to TopWaterTiger
And you can bet your arse that everyone one of those supporting a toll will be issued free passes even though they might actually cross it twice a month.
Posted on 3/7/23 at 10:11 am to Traveler
Came across these pics of the old bridge during construction.
Posted on 3/7/23 at 10:17 am to LSUgusto
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A highway for a different era.
It's amazing going on Google Maps these days and tracing the path of the "original" Hwy 90 through Louisiana; all the narrow twists and turns and old bridges. Most of it is still intact.
If you really want something trippy, head over to the DOTD website and look at some of the pre-1955 highway maps of the state...it's a clusterfrick of highway numbers that make no logical sense.
LaDOTD apparently has always had a screw loose, to put it lightly.
Posted on 3/7/23 at 10:28 am to Rhio
Interesting fact from wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcasieu_River_Bridge
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It was built under the administration of Gov. Earl K. Long and opened in 1952. It has decorative iron work with crossed guns integrated into the railings. The I-10 Bridge was originally built as the U.S. Hwy 90 bridge and later was grandfathered into Interstate 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcasieu_River_Bridge
Posted on 3/7/23 at 10:32 am to Rhio
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It's amazing going on Google Maps these days and tracing the path of the "original" Hwy 90 through Louisiana; all the narrow twists and turns and old bridges. Most of it is still intact.
eta:1930
https://digitool.is.cuni.cz:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1176308
This post was edited on 3/7/23 at 10:33 am
Posted on 3/7/23 at 10:40 am to Kingpenm3
Not worth starting its own thread, but if anyone is interested in Beauregard Parish history. The map above shows the Jasper and Eastern Railroad That started in Kirbyville with aspirations of making it to Alexandria. When that railroad made it to DeRidder, it moved many people from the larger town of Sugartown to the now Parish seat of DeRidder. The railroad never made it to Alexandria, instead to Oberlin. The tract is still in operation from Kirbyville to Deridder, but has been eliminated East of MLK Dr in DeRidder.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/jasper-and-eastern-railroad
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The road was planned to connect Kirbyville, which was on the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railway in Jasper County, to a point on the Sabine River seventeen miles to the northeast, then to continue twenty-one miles northeast to DeRidder, Louisiana, on the Kansas City Southern Railway, thence to build sixty-one more miles northeast to Alexandria.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/jasper-and-eastern-railroad
Posted on 3/7/23 at 10:49 am to TexasTiger08
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Is the new bridge actually going to be built? Or will it end up like the water park down the interstate?
If they wait long enough, then cars will just fly over the lake.
Posted on 3/7/23 at 12:30 pm to GREENHEAD22
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