Western Louisiana

[Great Lakes Roads]

Looks like the Louisiana leaders are talking about tolling the I-10 Mississippi River bridge in Baton Rouge...

[The Ghostbuster]

If it is tolled, I hope the money is used entirely for the upkeep of the bridge, and not diverted to other uses.

[bwana39]

Looks like the Louisiana leaders are talking about tolling the I-10 Mississippi River bridge in Baton Rouge...

This seems a little out of Sync with the reality and even what the video said.

Yes, Louisiana intends to toll the replacement I-10 bridge in Lake Charles.
Yes, Alabama intends to Toll the I-10 (BYWAY) bridge in Mobile.

Louisiana does not have a serious proposal to replace the current I-10 bridge at Baton Rouge. Right now the focus appears to be a bridge southeast of Baton Rouge.

There is a new bridge on LA-1 over the intercoastal waterway that is tied very closely to I-10 as there are no exits on LA-1 between I-10 and the south bank of the canal. It will be tolled.

None of the pictures in this video were of any Baton Rouge Bridge.

Here is a more in-depth discussion of bridges over the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=31267.100

[Anthony_JK]

Are you sure?? Because if you are talking about the LA 1 bridge replacement over the Intercoastal Waterway just south of the I-10/LA 1 interchange in Port Allen, that one is NOT tolled. There is a tolled high rise bridge that was built for LA 1 south of Golden Meadow going to Port Fourchon/Grand Isle.

The proposed new Mississippi River Bridge crossing south of Baton Rouge is tenatively planned to be placed just south of Plaquemine, but even that is now being questioned by locals as it would pass through some very sensitive wetland territory. I still think that a better location would be just east of Addis myself.

The existing I-10 bridge crossing the Mississippi is not tolled, and not planned for tolling any time in the future.

However, there is word afoot of a major shakeup of LaDOTD, with some legislators calling for breaking off of DOTD a new highway/roads department for non-NHS/FAP roads that would be privatized, and some limited talk of tolling all Interstates in order to fund new megaprojects (like I-49 South/I-49 Lafayette Connector, the new Mississippi River bridge south of BR; I-69; I-49 Shreveport Connector).

[Anthony_JK]

Meanwhile.....this looks more like a local replacement of a old bridge, but could it be a prelude to widening I-10 between there and the I-10/I-49 interchange in Lafayette to 3x3??

https://wwwapps.dotd.la.gov/administration/announcements/Announcement.aspx?key=38292#gsc.tab=0 

I-10 west of US 165 to the I-210 (East) interchange is already 3x3; and widening westward from there through Lake Charles is planned in conjunction with the Calcasieu River Bridge replacement project.