Jackson Jambalaya

The damn bridge is the bottleneck.

Wow! Must be nice - a functioning freakin' government that's focused on fixing sh*t, compared to these geniuses in the Mississippi legislature like Taterous Maximus and his alternative facts; saying the state is in great shape because of his massive tax cuts.

The tolls on the GNO went away in 2013. http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/05/crescent_city_connection_tolls_9.html

Um, I guess I was just donating to coffee fund the last time I crossed the Causeway.

Took a Democrat to finally do something about this bottleneck.

The bottleneck is the fricking hairpin turn on the westbound side after the bridge and then funneling into ONE lane. The moron that built that should have it shoved up his arse. Unbelievable that it's been like that for so long without being corrected.

2:10 - widening the I-10 is going to be good, but if you think it is going to get rid of the bottleneck, wait til you want to cross the river. If the bridge remains as it is without a new lane, the bottleneck will still be there.

Yes, if you are traveling local, and don't want to keep heading south (which is the route I take regularly) this will be nice - maybe even worth borrowing $600M from the feds. But, don't get your hopes, or your Dem pecker, up thinking this will eliminate that cluster.

210. Guess in your mind it takes a Democrat to fix the mess a Democrat made? That I10/110 exit, nor any of the rest of this ill designed cluster was not created during any Republican administration. And that has as little to do with the price of eggs as does your attempt at a meaningful comment.

I always thought that Eisenhower was a Republican, he created that mess in BR.

KF, regarding your 2:04 comment, the Causeway isn't the GNO. The Causeway isn't the Mississippi River Bridge.

Taterous Maximus! I like that!

That "bottleneck", or whatever you call it, is TERRIFYING - in both directions. I have more trouble heading EAST, as the bridge ends, for some reason. It IS unbelievable - impossible. But then, in Louisiana, you'd better be prepared to believe far more than six impossible things before breakfast. Basically, it's not really America. Louisiana's like Puerto Rico: a Latin American "protectorate" of the USA.

The condition of the Louisiana interstates, on the way between Jackson and Baton Rouge - PLUS that weirdness at the bridge - have pretty much stopped our travel to Lafayette. I don't think we've been, in thirteen years. And Lafayette's our favorite place in the world. Some Mardi Gras royalty has a big house for sale in River Ranch, right now - amazing - right on the river, modeled after a palace in Salzburg, and priced to sell. Perfect to retire to, in a few years. But then, how would we travel to Mississippi (other than by plane)?

Which leads me to a couple of questions. Has anybody taken the Audubon Bridge? Does it take forever to go that way? Does the route take you over scary roads, and put one in peril of crooked backwoods "law"-enforcement speed-traps/shakedowns? The connecting roads look pretty rural - middle-of-nowhere.

And how about the bridge connecting 'Airline Highway' with 'Ronald Regan Highway'? Is it as horrible as the Airline Highway bridge in New Orleans used to be (da Huey Long, which I hear has been improved)? Does that take you through super-scary areas?

Any OTHER alternate routes over the river, which don't run through the notorious speed-trap areas?

the 4:02 comment meant Eastbound, not westbound.

Thank you, 6:26!!! I read that comment twice thinking "that's not how I remember that" but it has been 15 years since I lived there.

It probably doesn't have as much traffic as I10 in BR, but the 85/65 interchange is ridiculous.