re: Why Was The Mississippi River Bridge In St. Francisville Built?

It’s the first time in history that Louisiana planned ahead for anything. Don’t bitch.

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Some politician needed to get to his fishing camp faster from St. Francisville.

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Fishing is virtually dead in False River. It's a rec lake now.

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The nuclear plant required it.

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River Bend opened 30 years before this bridge. Try again.

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What makes privately funded toll roads so difficult? Shitty investment and thus no interest?

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Yes. Not as much profit, if any, compared to large cities.

The legislature required it, state law. then it went to a vote and the citizens who voted approved it. Google TIMED program. An example of why people should be involved and informed.

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River Bend opened 30 years before this bridge. Try again.

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As I said earlier, the Audubon Bridge was supposed to have been built 30 years ago, which would have coincided with the construction of the nuclear plant. Politics as usual was involved with delaying it's construction. As I recall they decided to build the westbound side of the Crescent City Connection bridge instead of the Audubon Bridge because they wanted the CCC bridge to be completed in time for the World's Fair. After that they basically just continued putting it off and delaying it for other projects. The nuclear plant though was definitely part of the reason the bridge was built where it was. I know this because I had a relative that was on the planning committee for that bridge back in the early 80s and I also worked at that nuclear plant years ago.

They can build more than one bridge at a time and it is very necessary. They just need to build 2-3 more bridges now. Plus a highway system that actually pulls traffic away from the major cities. Instead of a loop, they just need to re-route I10 altogether..

Small towns make money off speeding tickets and on that bridge they're always clocking because people fly over it with no visability because there's no traffic

I have no problem with the Audubon Bridge. Before it was built there was no crossing from Baton Rouge to Natchez. It had been planned for years. It’s not like it took away from a bridge Baton Rouge would have instead.

I-12 to Bush is such a mythical project. It’s been planned for years and years. For someone asking what purpose it would serve it’s to divert tons of traffic out of Covington and off La 21.

I do this all the time in any form of traffic. As long as idiots keep letting me in, I’ll keep doing it. It beats being the pissed off guy waiting in line forever.