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re: Louisiana should pay for the last stretch of I-49 from Fort Smith to Texarkana

Posted on 7/31/25 at 5:06 pm to
Posted by Tomherman
Member since Sep 2016
2053 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 5:06 pm to
Louisiana can't even build 49 thru Shreveport.
Posted by DustyDinkleman
Here
Member since Feb 2012
19078 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 5:11 pm to
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Get mad and downvote, but you all know I'm right. i'm not explaining this to dipshits who don't understand geography


I find it hilarious when people post a “hot take” and then bitch when they get downvoted.

It tickles my Elmo
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
60549 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 5:20 pm to
That would bring in dozens of couples a year
Posted by NoBoDawg
Member since Feb 2014
2004 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 5:44 pm to
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Its being held up by some crack houses and projects that should have been bulldozed 25 years ago.

The “inner city connector” is what, less than 4 miles…half of the stretch being ghetto. Should be an easy project, but interstates are racist now.
Posted by OTIS2
NoLA
Member since Jul 2008
52129 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 5:47 pm to
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Harry Rex Vonner


You’re inbred, aren’t you?
Posted by nosaj
Member since Sep 2010
2616 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 5:54 pm to
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Hun, we can't get I-49 through Shreveport. Lol


I came here to say this
Posted by MattA
Member since Nov 2019
1980 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 5:57 pm to
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Its being held up by some crack houses and projects that should have been bulldozed 25 years ago.


Is that what it is? I’ve been wondering for years why it doesn’t just run clean through Shreveport. You’d think they could find a way around that.
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
175385 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 6:16 pm to
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I-49 from Fort Smith to Texarkana

Will never be built. The terrain is far too rough and hilly through there for 2025 America to ever get done. It’s extremely low priority for Arkansas with them focusing on connecting I-57 with Missouri and I-49 through Fort Smith instead.
Posted by nosaj
Member since Sep 2010
2616 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 6:28 pm to
Yeah instead they make you drive through the hood to reconnect
Posted by Harry Rex Vonner
Foggy Bottom Law School
Member since Nov 2013
47086 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 6:38 pm to
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BR can't handle any more traffic until the Great Loop is complete. I am certain the loop will get the green light any day now.



So since you all refuse to build your south Louisiana loop in BR, you'd just rather not have money making tourism from Iowa, the Dakota's, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma? Canada?
Posted by LSUgusto
Member since May 2005
19294 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 6:40 pm to
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They need to get it from Lafayette to New Orleans first.
Do a public/private partnership and make it a toll road. That's what they're doing to I-10 through Lake Charles.
Posted by GeauxGutsy
Member since Jul 2017
5837 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 6:49 pm to
Harry Rex Vonner = Violent Hip Swivel
Posted by Harry Rex Vonner
Foggy Bottom Law School
Member since Nov 2013
47086 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 6:53 pm to
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Will never be built. The terrain is far too rough and hilly through there for 2025 America to ever get done. It’s extremely low priority for Arkansas with them focusing on connecting I-57 with Missouri and I-49 through Fort Smith inste



I mean, that's fine if that's how you all want it. We don't really want Louisiana criminals coming up into NW Arkansas with a clear path.
Posted by madamsquirrel
The big somewhere out there
Member since Jul 2009
54662 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 7:13 pm to
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We don't really want Louisiana criminals coming up into NW Arkansas with a clear path.
that was my thought actually even though I drive Missouri to Natchitoches on the regular
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
35675 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 7:35 pm to
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So since you all refuse to build your south Louisiana loop in BR


A loop around BR would bring tourism to BR?

Your brain doesn't work too good.
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
175385 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 7:43 pm to
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I mean, that's fine if that's how you all want it. We don't really want Louisiana criminals coming up into NW Arkansas with a clear path.

Yeah, if I-49 gets built people might start getting murdered on hiking trails in NWA.
Posted by Eightballjacket
Member since Jan 2016
7886 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 7:51 pm to
I prefer taking the Oklahoma route from north of DeQueen to Fort Smith.
Posted by Shorts Guy
BR
Member since Dec 2023
487 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 8:07 pm to
Nah.

Arkansas needs it completed more than Louisiana does. LA needs I-49 South completed like 100x more than the Arkansas segment.
Posted by Shorts Guy
BR
Member since Dec 2023
487 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 8:10 pm to
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you'd just rather not have money making tourism from Iowa, the Dakota's, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma? Canada?


Super shite take. Tourists flow like Niagara Falls thru MSY from all around the world. A highway to nowhere isn’t a priority for tourism. But an additional terminal and 20 more gates in NOLA is.
Posted by waiting4saturday
Covington, LA
Member since Sep 2005
10838 posts
Posted on 7/31/25 at 8:10 pm to
Louisiana will pay for the signs to put up

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