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re: What a F’n nightmare LA-1 has become.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 11:44 am to goofball
Posted on 10/16/18 at 11:44 am to goofball
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Most people have to be connected to politicians to have a highway run through their land.
and this is (one of) the biggest problems we have getting anything done on this issue. You start getting serious about a new or alternate connector and watch the politicians start squabbling about where it will be located. Ibberville and WBR will have a fistfight over where its located. And that doesn't even address the individual landowner or EBR & LP.
None will agree where to even put it. How are you gonna get any serious consideration when the local politicians are all dick-shaking about where the route goes?
the only way to fix that is to have the local voters put immense pressure on the parish presidents/mayor to come to an agreement on location. then you can start moving forward.
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Posted on 10/16/18 at 11:47 am to CarRamrod
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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.
ETA: you mow my back dog yard once every two weeks, you can bow hunt my 10 acres right behind the house for free.
Can't shoot rifles in there.
This post was edited on 10/16/18 at 11:54 am
Posted on 10/16/18 at 11:52 am to X123F45
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I would much prefer a quite cup of coffee on my front porch
Play it right and you can afford front porches in all sorts of quiet places.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 11:54 am to sec13rowBBseat28
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Meanwhile, the bridge up by St Francisville is empty.
Build it and they will come. It is just taking a little longer than they anticipated.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 11:56 am to goofball
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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.
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.
you dont know the cost of construction these days do you? New construction is usually cheaper than retrofits. but in some cases it just is not feasible. and no the cost isnt as staggering to me as it is to you. quote:look at the Bayonne Bridge retrofit. it cost almost 2 billion.
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.
quote:i dont have any argument against you here.
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.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 12:00 pm to X123F45
quote:10 acres? i thought you were OT ballin with lik 10k acres.
ETA: you mow my back dog yard once every two weeks, you can bow hunt my 10 acres right behind the house for free.
Can't shoot rifles in there.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 12:02 pm to PapaPogey
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What a F’n nightmare LA-1 has become.
It's been problematic around the Intracoastal bridge for a while. The bridge is not only functionally obsolete (too narrow), but it is in horrible structural condition.
As far as LA 1 between the bridge to about Brusly....I'm surprised that it isn't 6 lanes wide by now. I can't imagine an alternative crossing at LA415 (even a draw bridge) would be cost prohibitive. The state simply chooses to waste money on stupid shite instead.
This post was edited on 10/16/18 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 10/16/18 at 12:10 pm to CarRamrod
You clearly missed the pre edit post
Posted on 10/16/18 at 1:21 pm to X123F45
that i did.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 1:27 pm to Oilfieldbiology
The same thing was said when the Sunshine bridge was open. It was called The Bridge to Nowhere.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 1:34 pm to The Boat
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Maybe the Sunshine Bridge being shut down will get the state off their arse to build a bridge south of BR.
Maybe it will get state residents to realize that the entire annual DOTD budget couldn't afford to build a new BR bridge and therefore requires additional revenue to actually build it within a resonable time.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 1:35 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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You really are a terrible poster. We know that bridge was not meant to relieve traffic around Baton Rouge. What we are saying is that it was a colossal waste of resources that could have been used to build a bridge that would actually be used
Translation: "I never use it, so there can't possibly be a legitimate reason for it's existence."
Posted on 10/16/18 at 1:36 pm to PapaPogey
5 lanes between Mansura and Marksville in God’s country aka Avoyelles Parish! 
Posted on 10/16/18 at 1:39 pm to kingbob
quote:Brusly is a pretty good school actually
Middle class people live where they can send their kids to good public schools because they can't really afford private schools (and even if they could) would rather spend that money on a camp or a boat. Good public schools are where the middle class people live. It's kinda a chicken v. egg, but regardless East AP schools are waaaaaaaay better than West Bank schools and it's not even close.
Scored an A, just like Dutchtown
Posted on 10/16/18 at 1:56 pm to jctiger73
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The same thing was said when the Sunshine bridge was open. It was called The Bridge to Nowhere.
That was the Gramercy Bridge.
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