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re: Proposed Baton Rouge road improvement tax: New Details and Website
Posted on 8/17/17 at 7:55 am to Roscoe
Posted on 8/17/17 at 7:55 am to Roscoe
Greenlight 1 included two Nicholson projects.
Improving the Lee/Brightside/Nicholson intersection and widening Nicholson from Burbank to Lee. Nothing more.
Improving the Lee/Brightside/Nicholson intersection and widening Nicholson from Burbank to Lee. Nothing more.
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Posted on 8/17/17 at 8:04 am to doubleb
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But if that's true what will pay off the bonds sold to support GL 1?
I think the existing sales tax will continue to support the bonds. The surplus will just be dumped into maintenance instead of "pay as you go" new roads.
Judging from the state of Baton Rouge's roads, that would probably make a pretty big dent.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 8:11 am to goofball
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improve lighting, signage and appearance...Plank Road
Hard to find and adequately select a hooker without signage and better lighting
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:40 am to johnnyrocket
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he state owns the land to build LA hwy 3125 from Assumption parish where it presently starts to I-10.
If they completed this it would go behind Plaquemine from LA 415.
Wow....that would be a big game changer.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:53 am to goofball
hat's what I initially thought, but somewhere in this thread someone posted that all the sales tax would stay on the books and go to road maintenance.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 10:16 am to doubleb
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someone posted that all the sales tax would stay on the books and go to road maintenance.
It would...less the amount required to service the bonds.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 10:31 am to upgrayedd
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Sorry, but widening those roads won't improve a goddamn thing
I disagree. Lee from Perkins to Highland is only 2 lanes and it's a very busy area that is only getting busier as all those apartment and housing areas spring up along Burbank as people try to go to and from there to the interstate.
Even just a turning lane would be a big boon. Adding an extra lane in each direction is a good idea, it's just about 20 years late.
Ideally a loop with a bridge south of LSU and 4 or 6-laning 32/Nicholson to it would pull a decent chunk of that traffic out of the equation, but I think we all realize that's not happening anytime soon.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 12:20 pm to Bard
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Even just a turning lane would be a big boon. Adding an extra lane in each direction is a good idea, it's just about 20 years late.
I think that is what they will end up doing.
Center turn lane on Lee between Perkins and Lee High (which would help traffic flow BIGLY) with bike lanes and sidewalks.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 1:02 pm to WeeWee
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Should already have been under improvement, but La is too stupid to understand the concept of a toll road.
How are you going to put a limited access toll road on a surface street laden with businesses? You'd waste a ton of money building frontage roads and overpasses, of which would narrow the remaining road to be used as a toll road.
Posted on 8/21/17 at 5:41 am to member12
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As far as infrastructure goes, Green Light was actually pretty successful. Certainly more so than anything the state has done in a long time.
True, but Green Light was the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig. But in a state as poor and corrupt as Louisiana you have to celebrate anything that even looks like a win.
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