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re: New Rendering of the Mobile Bay bridge . Toll will be $3 to 6$ for 50years
Posted on 5/8/19 at 5:56 am to jivy26
Posted on 5/8/19 at 5:56 am to jivy26
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Is the City and State paying for its construction? If so how the frick are tolls involved?
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The Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project will create jobs, spurring regional economic development. ALDOT knows that involvement of local, disadvantaged, minority and women-owned businesses is essential to our success, and ALDOT is committed to equal contracting opportunities for area businesses.
Tax us for roads and infrastructure improvement, then toll us so you can pay minority contractors.
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The previous estimate of $850 million did not include the interchange modifications or the new Bayway. The proposed project significantly evolved since 2014
It's also estimated to cost 2 billion now instead of 850 million. Lol
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Posted on 5/8/19 at 5:59 am to tilco
Oyster House>Dragos for oysters. The fried flounder with cheese grits and turnip greens is the shite!
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:02 am to jimbeam
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Tolls don’t work. Our study out of BR proved that
WTF is Louisiana's aversion to toll roads?
They work great in Texas.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:03 am to shutterspeed
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Mobile >>>>>>> BR
Everywhere Else >>>>>>>>> Mobile >>>>>>> BR
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:05 am to BayouRat15
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The bridge and the Bayway will be the largest in the country. The only thing is we gotta pay for it with tolls.
Tolls are much more efficient way to pay for major infrastructure projects than gas tax. When I was living in Miami, I would gladly pay the tolls to use the express lanes than to sit in traffic on I-95.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:06 am to tilco
quote:Good* peeps own it.
Oyster House- solid, great oysters
*Overlooking their Aubie tendancies.
OP: I’d estimate Baton Rouge will have something like this never.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:10 am to AUsteriskPride
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Or smart decisions
every group on the planet is afforded the liberty of preserving and defending itself
except one
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:11 am to jimbeam
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Tolls don’t work. Our study out of BR proved that
Based on my experience living in other cities. Tolls do work.
I just got paid $5,000,000.00 by the LaDOTD for this study. First line of coke is on me today (just kidding buy your own blow baws).
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:17 am to BayouRat15
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The only thing is we gotta pay for it with tolls.
Good one. I think we all know that the money will go for pocket lining.
This post was edited on 5/8/19 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:22 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Will that be the only part of I-10 with a toll? I didn’t know they could do that.
Yes you can do that if you get approval from the FHA and that takes forever which is one of the reasons why it has taken Alabama almost 20 years to get this far along in the process (they started planning this thing in 2001).
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:23 am to Y.A. Tittle
Hwy 90 is not part of I10, but yeah it'll be the only way to cross the bay without a toll, assuming you consider the ferry a toll.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:25 am to superwolf
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Why. Isn't the gas tax that we already pay supposed to cover this?
Government agencies do not know how to spend money efficiently.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:34 am to jimbeam
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Tolls don’t work. Our study out of BR proved that
Well, that's news to the rest of the world.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:37 am to TrueTiger
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Tolls don’t work. Our study out of BR proved that
WTF is Louisiana's aversion to toll roads?
To quote my grandfather's brother-in-law who was one of the major political boss of north La during the 1950s-1980s, "The voters of Louisiana are simple minded folks."
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:42 am to GEAUXT
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So does this replace the tunnel?
They should just dig another one under it. Elon says you can go 10 tunnels deep.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:56 am to BayouRat15
Thanks for the pic knuckle head
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:58 am to BayouRat15
But did you really go to the beach if you don't post selfies in the tunnel on Facebook?
Posted on 5/8/19 at 6:58 am to BayouRat15
That's actually very aesthetic. I would be proud of that skyline if I lived in Mobile.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 7:05 am to eScott
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They should just dig another one under it. Elon says you can go 10 tunnels deep.
Obviously, you don’t take soil conditions into account.
If it were bedrock I could see a deeper tunnel being feasible, but you are dealing with water, sands and clays here.
Most tunnels built for projects like this are prefabricated sections that are joined on site and sunk into place to lie into a dredged channel. The water is then pumped out and connections to land are made. A tunnel would make more sense in landscape and land use argument as you are changing the landscape with such a large bridge.
Also an argument for a bridge would remove the dangerous cargo detours for truckers.
Posted on 5/8/19 at 7:06 am to Y.A. Tittle
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We’ll all be zipping through Mobile, while Baton Rouge is still studying their possible new bridge.
Will that be the only part of I-10 with a toll? I didn’t know they could do that.
Am I the only one happy to not have to drive through the Segregation Tunnel anymore?
Alabama may be ahead of Louisiana in road development but decades behind in common sense.
George Wallace's name on an I-10 structure is a bigger disgrace than any Civil War General's Monument.
This post was edited on 5/8/19 at 7:07 am
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