Hyundai plant

[Duckster]

Good pickup for Louisiana. Our State needs to develop a strategy to deepen the draft of a few more major waterways deemed navigable by the Corps of Engineers. The Atchafalaya ship channel and Red Rv. below Alexandria come to mind. Otherwise everything will continue concentrating on Miss. Rv. between BR and NOLA. Imagine that new steel mill locating near Krotz Springs/Melville area. That would be huge for our region. Port of Iberia expansions heavily influenced by improving its deep water access to GOA.

[CajunAmos]

Being a native of the river parishes, I’m glad for them. Good jobs. But I’m glad I don’t live there anymore. It’s good not to be near major river. I appreciated the opportunities I had being a Shell Oil brat but that whole region is paying a price for it.

I'm one of those brats as well. We're you around for the employee club days?

[ZoomZoom]

Speaking of big projects, the Lafayette 49 Connector. The “excuse” has long been “we have to do it in phases.” How the heck do you do an elevated roadway in phases?

And seeing this article linked below, have to call our local delegation out. Too busy playing in the Huey Long parochial game with “One Acadiana” instead on manning up. Alabama is getting a 3 billion dollar project, 3 times what the Connector is estimated at.

https://www.fox10tv.com/2025/03/24/a...b4hBSqpiws3ag#

But just watch, the BR delegation will unite soon and push the necessity of the new bridge south of BR based on the steel mill while Acadiana will still be in a circle jerk with the tail wagging the dog.

Kind of like consolation. Seen this dance before, Lafayette gives their leverage away.

[RaisingCajun08]

We dont need an elevated roadway. We need a loop. Hwy 90 between airport and I-10 just needs to be left alone.

[ZoomZoom]

We dont need an elevated roadway. We need a loop. Hwy 90 between airport and I-10 just needs to be left alone.

Never happen. Basic geometry, shortest distance between two points. Die was cast in 1959. Besides, NOBODY in the outlying areas want a limited access road, they want Ambassador Caffery south.

[RaisingCajun08]

Never happen. Basic geometry, shortest distance between two points. Die was cast in 1959. Besides, NOBODY in the outlying areas want a limited access road, they want Ambassador Caffery south.

I agree 100% that it will never happen. But that is what's needed.

[HelmutVII]

The connector should have been built years ago. Many influential people were pushing for the Teche Ridge project. Some were concerned about the issue with the ground contamination at the old Southern Pacific roundhouse. (there is an abandoned freight facility there now). My view is this. They have settled on the route and the damn thing needs to be built. The condition of the area around the through way is deplorable the only things that cannot be disturbed are the water plant, St. Genevieve church and the railroad tracks. To me everything else is fair game because there is not much in the route worth saving. If today, they got 3 or 4 Cat D9 bulldozers and started at willow street followed the adopted route and stopped at the river, it would be a good thing.

[VObserver]

Speaking of big projects, the Lafayette 49 Connector. The “excuse” has long been “we have to do it in phases.” How the heck do you do an elevated roadway in phases?

And seeing this article linked below, have to call our local delegation out. Too busy playing in the Huey Long parochial game with “One Acadiana” instead on manning up. Alabama is getting a 3 billion dollar project, 3 times what the Connector is estimated at.

https://www.fox10tv.com/2025/03/24/a...b4hBSqpiws3ag#

But just watch, the BR delegation will unite soon and push the necessity of the new bridge south of BR based on the steel mill while Acadiana will still be in a circle jerk with the tail wagging the dog.

Kind of like consolation. Seen this dance before, Lafayette gives their leverage away.

You are a little late. The BR delegation got that bridge [the Sunshine Bridge] built decades ago; probably to give legislators a shortcut to the Basin to go fishing.

[ZoomZoom]

When the state had the dog and pony show last year, “allegedly” they overlooked the ROW for the service road overpasses at the train tracks. Also was concerned about the present I-10 overpass and the start of the rise for the overpass at Willow.

You’d think these details would have been considered already.

Got a governor, a lame duck president and legislative alignment nationally. Get it funded now, these stars won’t stay aligned forever.

[Duckster]

We dont need an elevated roadway. We need a loop. Hwy 90 between airport and I-10 just needs to be left alone.

What Helmut said about the thruway area, the mega project Connector footprint is decided upon. Get it done.
There's been lines on a map for a western (Duson to Youngsville) bypass since at least the 80's. The region could use the western bypass, maybe if were a limited access toll road it could get built, not interfere with I-49 financing. There's still lines on map for Ambassador Caffery north. I don't know why, but still dead in the water. Would be nice if at least extended to Hwy 98/Gloria Switch. Makes you wonder where all our taxpayer money goes.