re: Planning starts on Washington St exit relocation

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Plus, unless you are the most naive person in the world, the black residents of "the bottom" neighborhood are going to raise holy hell if anyone tries to remove the Washington St. exit. It has nothing to do with logic. They are going to cry racism (at least until the political leaders and community organizers have their pockets greased by the state and fedgov.)

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take down a statue but don't dare eliminate an exit that many don't use

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The old bridge is largely under utilized. If Airline Highway moved traffic with ANY efficiency, more traffic would go that direction and then down LA1 or 415.

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It moves well enough for me to get out of town. Stop giving away my secret route.

The problem with Airline is that it is setup as a city street throughout much of it. Many of the businesses would need to be bought out in order to put in a frontage road on both sides.

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It is going to be horrendous.

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well take heart in the fact that no matter what they want to do, it will be 5-10 years before they actually get around to doing it. The Intracoastal Bridge on LA1 is the WORST in the state. Beyond repair. Too expensive to fix. A lost cause. Unsafe beyond hope. Know when they plan to build a new one?


2020 or something like that.



but its gonna be a four lane beauty when they finally get around to doing it.

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There is no entrance ramp from Washington St.to east I-10.

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Da fuq?

Then where exactly is that on ramp immediately BEFORE Dalrymple coming from?

IIRC, the entrance ramp just before the Dalrymple exit actually comes from farther north than Washington St., closer to Louise. You can't directly access I-10 from Washington; you have to go under the interstate and around the block back to Louise in order to get on the ramp and onto I-10 eastbound.

So the original point of getting off at Nicholson and back on at Washington to avoid most of the bridge congestion can be done, but in a kind of roundabout way.

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Just as long as they don't get rid of the Washington Street Entrance Ramp...

That bad boy is my secret traffic weapon for commuting and post-LSU games as well!

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residents on Dalrymple

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You have a valid point as would they. I wouldn't want that Washington Street trash passing my house every day either.

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Just get off at Nicholson and get back on I10 at the Washington St exit. It's like the traffic was never there.

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..or head north on I-110, get off at Florida and re-enter heading South on I-110 until the merge.

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I think Florida Blvd from downtown to Livingston could be improved by eliminating many lights and intersections. The service roads on Florida are far too underutilized.

Just creating an alternate route for downtown workers would free up a bunch of interstate traffic at rush hour.

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I think a raised 4-lane toll road with entrances/exits at Acadian, Airline, Sherwood, Denham & Livingston would work very well along with those changes. The previous proposal of running a toll road down Airline was just ridiculous.

Ideally they would take this time to expand the entire 110-12 corridor to 10 lanes because what we have now just bottlenecks everything in both directions.

Going west you have 3 lanes of 10 and 3 lanes of 12 merge into 5 lanes until College then merge to 4 lanes until Acadian then 3 lanes until you get to the 10/110 where you have 2 lanes going to each and a middle one that divides (instead of the onramp after Dalrymple being the beginning of the outer lane).

Going east you have 3 lanes of 10 and 3 lanes of 110 merging into 3 lanes (with a 4th lane lasting all of a couple hundred yards until it crazily ends at an offramp). These 3 lanes then continue to the other split where one side goes off in 3 lanes while the other has to merge down to 2 briefly before once again becoming 3.

Run two more lanes off the I10 bridge and extend them all the way down to the 10/12 split and fix the I10 side so that the extra lane matches up so that you have 2 full lanes going in each direction and the middle lane splitting into a 3rd lane for each (instead of the cluster-frickery of the current 10 side that goes to 2 then a 3rd lane appears magically on the inside).