The editorial published on July 9 on the Mississippi River bridge project ended with the statement, “Commuters and travelers, from Louisiana and everywhere, deserve to know when their long traffic nightmare will finally be over.” The short answer is never, based on the three location alternatives currently being proposed.
Far removed from the existing bridge and the Interstate 10 and Interstate 12 travel corridor and likely to be a toll facility, any such new bridge will not solve the traffic congestion problem on the existing I-10 bridge. Only a location close to the existing bridge that serves the I-10/I-12 corridor traffic would substantially relieve the traffic congestion that currently exists…