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re: Dear President Trump - the Baton Rouge bottleneck is a national security issue
Posted on 5/8/25 at 9:12 am to loogaroo
Posted on 5/8/25 at 9:12 am to loogaroo
Not soley but it played a big part in how it was designed. What
is crazy is Eisenhower took the idea for an interstate highway from the German Autobahn that was built by Hitler. So I guess in a weird way you can say Hitler was the reason we have interstates
is crazy is Eisenhower took the idea for an interstate highway from the German Autobahn that was built by Hitler. So I guess in a weird way you can say Hitler was the reason we have interstates
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Posted on 5/8/25 at 9:14 am to AubieinNC2009
In Baton Rouge that's a gamble still though. I leave for work at 5:30 in the morning to be at work for 6:30. Sometimes I get there at 6 sometimes I get there at 7 and sometimes I get there on Saturday. You just never know with Baton Rouge.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 9:30 am to udtiger
We need to incentivize private contractors to complete major roadwork in months, not decades.
Form nationwide “teams” of 500 men that will travel to where the worst bottlenecks are and get these jobs done in 6 months. Allow non violent offenders to work off their debt to society swinging a shovel and can stay and learn to operate heavy equipment.
It’s paramount to sabotage to allow a city to be in a never ending roadwork cycle. These liberal studies saying traffic is unsolvable because less traffic just means more will drive is absolutely bullshite. It’s their misguided feeble minded way to punish people for the great sin of driving.
Start with interstates. Set up detours. Get someone like Elon to run it. Bing bam zoom. 5 miles of interstate in 6 months.
Form nationwide “teams” of 500 men that will travel to where the worst bottlenecks are and get these jobs done in 6 months. Allow non violent offenders to work off their debt to society swinging a shovel and can stay and learn to operate heavy equipment.
It’s paramount to sabotage to allow a city to be in a never ending roadwork cycle. These liberal studies saying traffic is unsolvable because less traffic just means more will drive is absolutely bullshite. It’s their misguided feeble minded way to punish people for the great sin of driving.
Start with interstates. Set up detours. Get someone like Elon to run it. Bing bam zoom. 5 miles of interstate in 6 months.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 9:33 am to The Torch
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While you're at it ask why I-20 has been under construction between Shreveport and Monroe for 35 years.
Be patient. Ny my reckoning that still has 5 or 10 years to equal the time to build I-22.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 10:11 am to udtiger
We already have both bridges in place to make a loop. (Sunshine & St Francis ville) we just need to connect them with an elevated highway to minimize impact on the farmland it would cut through. Expensive but I think it would be the easiest way to push it.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 10:13 am to udtiger
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It could start at 12 between Walker and Colyell, so south/southeast and cross I-10 (with exist/access there) between 73 and Bluff Road overpass (near the landfill) and then cross over Spanish Lake/Swamp behind the prisons, cross the Mississippi below Plaquemine and bypass around it, running a separate road essentially splitting 77 and 1 and merging onto I-10 between Lobdell and Grosse Tete.
25-30 years ago, you absolutely could have and should have done this. Prairieville is way too populated to do anything like that now.
A southern bypass from Gross Tete to I-10 in Ascension could still be done with the new bridge coming, but a major upgrade of LA-30 would need to be done.
Treating LA-30 like a major highway instead of a 2 lane country road would be a major help in fixing Baton Rouge’s interstate problems anyway.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 10:29 am to Sweep Da Leg
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most travelled section for industry in the country dumbass
It was a joke about NIL money… dumbass
Posted on 5/8/25 at 10:42 am to udtiger
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He could declare it a national security/national economic emergency and bypass environmental impact and other bullshite delaying studies and start construction in weeks.
I made this a few years ago, based on the early list of potential sites for the new bridge because any location proposal should be (but likely isn't) taking a future loop into account.
Red line: an eventual northern loop
Purple line: most efficient driving path for a southern loop
Yellow line: a possible southern loop taking into account the current proposed options for the 3rd bridge
The purple line would add ~2-3 miles to a driver's journey, the yellow one would be something like 15-20.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 12:55 pm to Bard
Your yellow southern loop is an interesting one. It goes through Lexington Estates, Preserve at Harveston, The Country Club of Louisiana, Santa Maria, Manchac Plantation and Mallard Lakes.
Did you purposely make your line go through a bunch of neighborhoods with very expensive houses?
Did you purposely make your line go through a bunch of neighborhoods with very expensive houses?
Posted on 5/8/25 at 12:57 pm to udtiger
Start by firing every single traffic engineer (which is an oxymoron) in the public sector in Louisiana. Put it in private companies hands, you'll have a real solution before the apocalypse.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:00 pm to LARancher1991
Not all of Hitler's ideas were bad.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:06 pm to Bard
I like the yellow.
And instead of a bridge, get Elon's Boring company to tunnel under the river.
And instead of a bridge, get Elon's Boring company to tunnel under the river.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:22 pm to Bard
They need to make I-14 a real thing and start off by going from Saraland AL to Waco Tx. That would save lots of bottlenecks through several states. DOGE is finding money for all these elected officials to burn through, might as well make it for something worth wild!
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:49 pm to LSUbasketballfan
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Did you purposely make your line go through a bunch of neighborhoods with very expensive houses?
No, it's more a general idea than anything concrete. That those are highly expensive homes wasn't a consideration for me, but likely will be why we won't have a reasonable southern loop for at least 50 more years.Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:54 pm to TrueTiger
The idea for the autobahn came from Huey Longs highway 1.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:59 pm to LSUbasketballfan
Hwy 30 will be 4 laned in sections, that’s already in the works.
If they choose one of the sites near St. Gabriel, they could easily connect the new bridge through Spanish Lake back to the interstate near Bluff or 74.
If they choose one of the sites near St. Gabriel, they could easily connect the new bridge through Spanish Lake back to the interstate near Bluff or 74.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:14 pm to whoa
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Hwy 30 will be 4 laned in sections, that’s already in the works.
Has been “in the works” for 10 years. A clusterfrick of a repaving project north of LSU and a random roundabout in Gonzales is what has been done. Basically nothing.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:41 pm to LSUbasketballfan
The 1st segment (Brightside-Gourrier) is scheduled to go to bid in September, construction starts not long after. The other segments will follow.
Also, it’s 3 roundabouts by Tanger. Those will help traffic a ton right there.
Also, it’s 3 roundabouts by Tanger. Those will help traffic a ton right there.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:50 pm to back9Tiger
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Start by firing every single traffic engineer (which is an oxymoron) in the public sector in Louisiana. Put it in private companies hands, you'll have a real solution before the apocalypse.
I believe you meant 'civil engineer' instead of traffic engineer. I did have a 'traffic' class with Dr. Dart at LSU, but that was only one of my classes.
I work in private but I've seen both good and bad in both public and private.
Your statement at best is probably a wash. The real problem is a 'political ' one.
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:56 pm to udtiger
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the Baton Rouge bottleneck is a national security issue
No but just driving through Baton Rouge is a humanitarian issue.
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