re: What a F’n nightmare LA-1 has become.

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there was actually a thread where me and a few people discuses the most feasible option to have a southern loop. it has a MSR crossing and about 15 miles of bridges/roads/tieins on each side of the river from grosse tete to dutchtown.

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I know.

One problem.

That puts the 15 miles of roads on the West side effectively dividing my property with a major highway.

I would become a domestic terrorist/professional saboteur overnight

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hat puts the 15 miles of roads on the West side effectively dividing my property with a major highway.

I would become a domestic terrorist/professional saboteur overnight

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and you are part of the problem.

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That puts the 15 miles of roads on the West side effectively dividing my property with a major highway.

I would become a domestic terrorist/professional saboteur overnight

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You've got the wrong outlook on this, man. If they do that, you make damned sure there's an exit somewhere in the stretch of your divided property. Then you have all the land on all four corners of the exit and you make a fricking killing on developing gas stations, fast food restaurants, hotels, stripmalls and outparcels, etc.

As the West side cities inevitably grow toward the interstate bypass exits, guess who then owns all of that prime real estate and gets filthy rich selling it a piece at a time?

Rando: Landbaron.

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I would much prefer a quite cup of coffee on my front porch

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Done properly, you can have a quiet cup of coffee on an even nicer piece of property not too far away and have the money to make S and Paul Allen bring it to you and then hop into your helicopter to go on about your day.

I took the loop. It was real easy

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If they do that, you make damned sure there's an exit somewhere in the stretch of your divided property. Then you have all the land on all four corners of the exit and you make a fricking killing on developing gas stations, fast food restaurants, hotels, stripmalls and outparcels, etc.


I would much prefer a quite cup of coffee on my front porch

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then can be be friends? and i come out and hunt your land and help you do stuff you need to do? like drive tractors and kill hogs? I mean im married but if you do have a daughter, me and mrs ramrod could work something out if i inherited all that land.

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You've got the wrong outlook on this, man. If they do that, you make damned sure there's an exit somewhere in the stretch of your divided property. Then you have all the land on all four corners of the exit and you make a fricking killing on developing gas stations, fast food restaurants, hotels, stripmalls and outparcels, etc.

As the West side cities inevitably grow toward the interstate bypass exits, guess who then owns all of that prime real estate and gets filthy rich selling it a piece at a time?

Rando: Landbaron.

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Even if he's not directly adjacent to an exit, his land could potentially be much closer to major transportation routes and thus more valuable for industry, commercial, and residential development.

Most people have to be connected to politicians to have a highway run through their land.

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well to be fare, the cost of a new bridge in NOLA would probably cost 2-4x the cost than in rural LA.

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That wasn't a new bridge. That was just a new lane in each direction. And it cost over 3 times the cost of the entire Audubon bridge project.

The amount of cash spent on widening an existing bridge is staggering considering that the figure for the Audubon Bridge includes east and west side approaches and a new bypass route around New Roads - with enough right of way acquired to expand it to a divided highway in the future if they wanted to.

Not arguing that the Huey P Long bridge widening wasn't needed. Just shocked at the costs of the project - which ended up being $1.3 billion.

In that whole massive TIMED program, one single project costs $1.3 billion. $4 billion in total transportation projects statewide....and somehow East Baton Rouge got NOTHING out of it. $0.00.

Why don't they just take the Loop?



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