re: Miss. River Bridge Panel hears how new crossing will impact traffic (it's big)

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That bridge being built south of Plaquemine isn’t gonna save shite

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Well then I guess we should shut it down.

“Hey guys, someone on the OT said it’s not going to work.”

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A) experts that do this all day everyday, think otherwise

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You talking about the same experts who claimed that the $10 million Terrace Street Off-Ramp would significantly improve traffic on both S/B I-110 & the traffic coming off the bridge E/B?

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Plaquemine gets a loop before Baton Rouge does. FACT.

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Technically not true.

After the Huey P Long Bridge was built (the old bridge), Airline Hwy. was extended from its connection to Jefferson Hwy. to the HPL Bridge to provide a bypass around BR.

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Speckled Penis bird

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First you make a roux

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The new bridge would lead to an increase in traffic in Plaquemine, but a decrease in traffic for the LA1/I-10 interchange and the I-10 bridge.

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Doubtful. People in Addis and Brusly aren't going to go an extra ~15 miles south and then east just to cross the river and have to drive another 10 miles up 30 just to get back to Baton Rouge (unless someone hits the Intracoastal with a dump truck again).

Where this will come in handy is in opening up all that land south of Plaquemine up for expansion for plant baws (if farmers are willing to sell, that is). If it's ever hooked up to a legit interstate loop (not just using LA1), it will help remove Geismar traffic from coming through BR as well as basically creating a massive new avenue for LSU traffic (especially with a loop coming from Livingston).

But it will likely be decades before that payoff happens. A better option would have been to put this bridge crossing between Addis and Brusly (around Farr Park) for an initial loop and then this one later for a second loop.

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Doubtful.

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The experts say otherwise.

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People in Addis and Brusly aren't going to go an extra

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Both small communities, and not everyone there exclusively commutes to Baton Rouge. A lot of them work on the west side of the river at one of the many giant industrial facilities nearby.

We need a way to link southern EBR and Ascension with the giant employers on the west side of the river - particularly Shintech, Westlake, Dow, and all the other shite they are planning in that area.

I'd like to see the crossing be right between DOW and Plaquemine, but south of Plaquemine works too. It will just cost more to link that bridge to I-10 from there.

Going by The Advocates article:

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Moree said that, of the roughly 63,000 cars and trucks traveling east across the bridge daily, about 26,000 enter from La. 1 and 15,000 from La. 415.

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That’s East only so double it for daily would be about 80,000 currently using from LA1 and 415. So they are projecting roughly 1 in 4 of those cars will use the proposed bridge.

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Man they should build a nice beautiful bridge like the one in New Roads.

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I love that bridge, St Francisville is now as close as New Roads

True,

bottom line, are they trying to divert all the traffic that is coming east and going towards New Orleans, or is more of a local thing.?

And, whatever happened to the alligator tour place that was south of BR. I thought it was closed due to some proposed bridge?

They purpose of the study, like most studies, is to justify the project. I have seen the study for the Audubon bridge. It predicted 32000 vehicles a day by now. It's like a 10th of that.

Read between the lines, the 24000 are the only ones going to benefit, that's 12000 each way and not a lot to justify the billion dollar investment. And it's only going to be people from ascension and plaqumine who benefit. No one is going to come from denham go to 10 into ascension and cross the new bridge especially if they don't controll access to la 30 between 10 and the new bridge.