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re: So the Baton Rouge loop is still a possibility?
Posted on 2/20/16 at 6:31 am to Croacka
Posted on 2/20/16 at 6:31 am to Croacka
I know but I don't think the thru traffic will take the loop. Not saying I'm right just what I think. People traveling thru BR don't want to take surface streets to bypass it. Sure if it was a brand new interstate type of loop I could see truckers using it.
I cross the bridge everyday. The people who live in central, Zachary, etc already take the old bridge. The people who are traveling to south BR, Gonzales etc have to take the new bridge...if there was a bridge in Addis I think it would help greatly.
ETA- if they built an extension from 415 to LA 1 south of intracoastal and connected to 30 I think people going to NOLA would take it
I cross the bridge everyday. The people who live in central, Zachary, etc already take the old bridge. The people who are traveling to south BR, Gonzales etc have to take the new bridge...if there was a bridge in Addis I think it would help greatly.
ETA- if they built an extension from 415 to LA 1 south of intracoastal and connected to 30 I think people going to NOLA would take it
This post was edited on 2/20/16 at 6:34 am
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Posted on 2/20/16 at 7:07 am to spslayto
It will never be ready in time
Posted on 2/20/16 at 7:10 am to Topwater Trout
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I know but I don't think the thru traffic will take the loop. Not saying I'm right just what I think. People traveling thru BR don't want to take surface streets to bypass it. Sure if it was a brand new interstate type of loop I could see truckers using it.
Truckers will use what is fastest. They will learn
Posted on 2/20/16 at 7:14 am to spslayto
Just give us 2 damn lanes off the bridge
Posted on 2/20/16 at 7:22 am to Dire Wolf
the old bridge isn't exactly a peach 
And that route is already a clusterfrick with less traffic...they would have to do some major improvements to get that route used by truckers. What exactly would the route be? Take airline to 110 and get off at the airport?
And that route is already a clusterfrick with less traffic...they would have to do some major improvements to get that route used by truckers. What exactly would the route be? Take airline to 110 and get off at the airport?
This post was edited on 2/20/16 at 7:35 am
Posted on 2/20/16 at 7:24 am to Nado Jenkins83
Yep close wash st and add a lane
Posted on 2/20/16 at 7:25 am to cssamerican
quote:yep. The state can take the land and pay for it. I'm just glad to still see this on the table. I thought the loop proposal was dead.
And this is why eminent domain is a good thing. Too many NIMBYs around here
Posted on 2/20/16 at 7:31 am to spslayto
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Bruce said once the study is approved by federal highway officials, Loop backers, with the little money left, will try to gauge interest for a possible public-private partnership to build sections of the Loop.
Bruce said polls show the broader public favors the concept.
“So there is very strong disconnection with what political leaders and a few anti-Loop opponents say and what the general public believes,” he said.
I would like to see this study personally.
Posted on 2/20/16 at 7:36 am to spslayto
Texas will literally build a toll highway over Louisiana before a loop in Baton Rouge happens.
Posted on 2/20/16 at 7:48 am to Topwater Trout
I worked for an environmental consultant that completed a NEPA study on a route connecting 415 to HWY 1 about 8 years ago.
Posted on 2/20/16 at 8:09 am to ThatMakesSense
quote:shite, it took like 10 years just to get the Causeway Blvd interchange built, and it is retarded anyway
I can only imagine how long that would take in Louisiana. 5 years?
Building that loop would be a minimum 10 year project
Posted on 2/20/16 at 8:24 am to spslayto
I've always maintained the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
An elevated roadway using the footprint of the existing I-10/12 roadways and another Mississippi River bridge just South of the I-10 bridge.
What you would save on land acquisition you spend on the additional construction costs.
Environmentally it's a win-win, less raw land disturbed and less extra fuel used by traffic as it will be miles shorter than a loop.
Make it have zero intermediate public exits/entrances all the way across, only for through traffic. Emergency accesses will be necessary.
An elevated roadway using the footprint of the existing I-10/12 roadways and another Mississippi River bridge just South of the I-10 bridge.
What you would save on land acquisition you spend on the additional construction costs.
Environmentally it's a win-win, less raw land disturbed and less extra fuel used by traffic as it will be miles shorter than a loop.
Make it have zero intermediate public exits/entrances all the way across, only for through traffic. Emergency accesses will be necessary.
Posted on 2/20/16 at 8:28 am to spslayto
Baton Rouge bypass to New Orleans on I-10 would take so much pass through traffic out of BR. That would be so clutch
Posted on 2/20/16 at 8:38 am to spslayto
Loop will never happen so i have a novel idea. How about people move closer to where they work....?
Nah, that would be too easy.
Nah, that would be too easy.
Posted on 2/20/16 at 8:43 am to Giantkiller
I feel another multi-million dollar study coming.
Posted on 2/20/16 at 8:45 am to spslayto
Bypassing Baton Rouge heading west would be awesome...
Posted on 2/20/16 at 8:47 am to Bourre
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That is one fricked up looking loop
My first thought is that it looks like an outline of one of Salvador Dali's clocks
Posted on 2/20/16 at 8:52 am to trom83
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I won't see this in my lifetime. shite takes too long to construct in LA.
It will happen right after they settle on a route, finish the environmental impact studies, and find funding.
Posted on 2/20/16 at 8:58 am to spslayto
I have come the conclusion that BR loves their traffic. Subconsciously they do not want to solve the problem.
Posted on 2/20/16 at 11:43 am to spslayto
I think the northern loop would get a ton of use. The southern loop, not so much.
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