re: WBRZ - Lawmakers to push toll route through Baton Rouge

where i used to live:

A better chance of having a loop built is for Iberville Parish and Ascension Parish to make a deal and contract with someone to build a private toll road. This will cut EBR and WBR parishes out of the discussion.

After the I-10 bypass is completed, a deal can be made with Livingston to extend the toll road over to I-12.

As long as there are 5 or more parishes (and their Kip Holden equivalents) involved, nothing will be accomplished.

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where i used to live:

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But the burg of Plaquemine is an insurmountable barrier to future highway construction in these parts.

That doesn't make any sense. A urban interstate is more for local traffic than it is for people passing through. Not sure why you think this way. Basically every city in the country operates wrong then according to your logic.

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Th. Not sure why you think this way. Basically every city in the country operates wrong then according to your logic.

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Well this is Louisiana

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Protected wetlands.

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Got it. The thing with wetlands though is as long as you set aside other land to make up for it, you can do it (at least it works that way with farm land). Interstate bridges like that are extremely low-impact once built. What I mean to say by all that is that is the same I mentioned above, if there is enough political will to do it then it would get done.

I looked back at the map to get an idea of where a good central point would be between the I10 bridge and the Sunshine bridge and it looks like the St. Gabriel area is pretty close to it (that giant horseshoe just north of White Castle/south of St Gabe would have much more limited growth potential even though it is much closer to being the center spot between the two bridges). Also, such a location would allow faster access to L'Auberge, a ll the chem plants around that area plus allowing people people living on either side of the river to work on the other side without having to wait on a ferry or crawl through the traffic to go to one of the two current bridges.

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It's mind blowing that there isn't Nola bypass. Why has all that traffic go right through downtown BR, regardless of the size Baton Rouge is "suppose" to be. Shreveport has it right but they are in Texas so it's no wonder

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I49 south is the intended bypass.

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a lot don't

they live in denham and ascension

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That and future expansion along what would be the new PVille/Denham corridor is why I have it to my map/wishlist.



After this discussion though, I am thinking a bridge south of Plaq might indeed be much better.

It could work.....they need to push the travel lanes on Airline Highway to the edge of its very wide right of way and install a 4 lane expressway in the median. That's not a difficult solution.....the hard part will be the southern leg and a potential new bridge somewhere around Brusly.

Florida blvd west of Airline could be converted to a freeway fairly easily. They feeder roads are already in place. They need overpasses at the exists, and then they need to make the feeder roads "one way" with dedicated u-turn lanes at every overpass.