re: Louisiana DOTD Megaprojects

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Monroe
New Bridge
Ouachita River in Monroe
New bridge & connections

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Will never happen. This bridge has been discussed for over 30 years. Monroe and WM will never come together to decide where to put it.

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New Orleans/ I-10/ Williams Blvd. (LA 49) to Veterans Blvd. / Widen to 8-lanes

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Perfect. It will take another 5 years for design/approval and at least 10 for construction, before they have to do it over again because someone messed up.

6 lanes from Ruston to Monroe? The frick?

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his is all part of the sales pitch to get you to approve a huge increase in the gas tax. DOTD rolls out an " aggressive" list of projects for which they need funding. But none of this is going to happen.

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I wouldn't say "nothing" will happen. Matter of fact, a 50+ million dollar I-10 interchange is already planned where Pecue passes over I-10. That's right, that 2 mile stretch of I10 between siegan and highland is getting an on-ramp/off-ramp. Now, let's forget about the absolute dire need for any improvements at LA-1 or Miss River bridge. The geniuses at LADOTD are going to instead waste $50+ million on an off ramp between 2 existing off ramps that lie within a mile of each other, and completely ignore the need for off ramps/interchanges past highland that feed directly into Prairieville. That's where all the traffic backs up. It backs up I10 East at highland road because people are trying to get to P'Ville. All this will do will cause the traffic to now stack up on Pecue, and Highland, and make Airline from Pecue to P'ville and even greater parking lot at 5 pm.

Projects like this one and the Tram are driven by the developers who need the state to make improvements so they can make money.

Yes Pecue comes before improving I-10 through BR because it makes the right people money. Other projects fall behind because of this type of thinking.

That makes sense. That does throw up a good question as to where they would put that though

exactly!! WTF

Would love to see it connect somehow to the north end of the Kansas lane extension project. I actually think that will be the next phase of that project. What's going to make that hard is from 165 to the river is all small lakes and marsh land.

Of course we will all be dead and gone before that happens.

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The original plan decades ago was for 310 and 510 to connect with the westbank expressway (910) to form a southern loop

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And of course Louisiana politics probably derailed it...

So much traffic would be alleviated by the CCC and downtown had a southern loop like that ever been built. And St Charles Parish would have exploded in growth.

But how/why was it cancelled?