Originally Posted by vikingsfan68
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Widening I-12 by going to six lanes from Livingston to Baton Rouge, and widening Hwy. 190 to four/six lanes over the same stretch would obviously carry at least twice the commuter traffic load into and out of Baton Rouge every day. Our primary traffic problem occurs westbound in the mornings and eastbound in the evenings. This traffic comes from the Denham Springs and Walker areas. No one from these areas is going to use a loop north to Baker or south to Donaldsonville to go downtown and back. And no one has a legitimate gripe if an existing roadway truly needs to be widened. Hwy. 190, for instance, is a U. S. highway, and it is two lanes from Denham Springs to Covington. Does that make any sense?
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Of course no one from Walker is going to use the North or South Loop to get to downtown Baton Rouge, but 80% or more of the traffic passing through BR would be inclined to use the loop, thereby eliminating the load on the actual interstate. That is the entire point of the loop, to put the through traffic on it and keep them off of the business route and detour them around the city.
Widening the interstate even more then the already 3 lanes we have, will only get people to the east/west bottlenecks faster. Eliminate the out of towners by building the loop and the locals should feel the easement in town.
