BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Expect to more than double your usual drive time if you’re heading to Baton Rouge from the Lafayette area Tuesday afternoon, according to the WAFB First Alert Traffic Team. As of 12:45 p.m., the drive time from Lafayette to Baton Rouge was 2 hours and 27 minutes, due to emergency roadwork being done on I-10 eastbound near the Ramah exit.
At one point, the backup stretched for nearly 13 miles. Click on the FIRST ALERT TRAFFIC tab in your 9NEWS APP for live traffic maps…