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re the Causeway:  my daddy used to "kid" us by saying there is nothing on the other side of the hump and of course, being gullible little kids, we believed him.  "Im gonna press this button" (the A/c switch or whatever) "and we're gonna turn into a boat and fall into the water whoooooo all the way down!!!" EVERY TIME we went over it.  

We didn't go in the parts where the Huey bridge is very often.  As long as I can see where we're going, I"m good. 

I'm from the MS coast, we just took a lot of weekend family trips to NO.   My uncle was a season ticket holder for the Saints in their paper bag heydays.  If we were lucky he'd ask one of us to go with him. 

Scuffed many a tire on the Huey. They're in the process of widenling it now, I hear. Supposed to be finished in 2013. I should live so long.

http://www.timedla.com/bridge/long/overview/

Headed to the Big Easy this weekend. My son's HS football team has a playoff game against OP Walker, Behrman Stadium in Algiers. Asked my younger sons what the wanted to do most in NO< they said go to that store than sells coffee and those doughnut things (Cafe du Monde!).

Yeah, like the I 49 expansion from Lafayette to NO... they started that when I was a kid... still not done.

My two most scareist moments in the Huey...

1.) School trip to zoo, n School bus while train is passing, traffic bad (almost stopped), and bridge was shaking like a bush in a hurricane.

2.) In my mom's old riveria (that bridge was not made for the wide cars of the 70's and 80's) we're trying to pass a truck hauling tree branches and my aunt (who's lived in Marrero for over 30 years and crossed the river maybe three times on her own) tells my mom - who's driving (in high pitched voice), "Just close your eyes, that's what I do"

Sorry, but they still haven't started this, beyond designating the corridor it's still a plan in search of funding. OTOH, they're actually working on the Huey.

No, they started, it took them quite some time just to build the four-lane bridge by my old house.  You can actually go from Berwick all the way to Luling or is it the Lapalco turn-off (which ever is first heading east) without a red light.  And if I recall correctly, you can go west from Bayou Vista all the way to Broussard without a light.  So all they have to do is figure out how to convert Acadian Thruway to Interstate (hahahaha) and change the three intersections in Bayou Vista and Berwick and it'll be fourlane all the way.

Nope. I rode 90 from Lafayette to New Orleans and back yesterday, so I'm intimately familiar. I've also worked on some of the grassroots I-49 planning here in Lafayette. It's interstate quality only from Berwick east to Raceland, the rest is far from limited access. Still several red lights between the Wax Lake outlet west to Broussard, though they build an overpass or so every year, eliminating red lights as they go. None of this makes it an interstate, nor is there funding to accomplish any part of the plan to make it so.

They do have a plan to make Evangeline Thruway into an interstate, if that's what you mean. A nice pretty unfunded plan. That's the biggest challengs, along with the eastern end from Raceland through Des Allemands and Boutte to hook up with the Westbank Expressway. St. Mary Parish represents minor challenges by comparison.

The work you're talking about (new bridge between Berwick-MC and four-laning 90 east of there) was nearly finished before there was any serious talk about extending I-49 South.

Here's a site that outlines the segments, but again as I said it's all in the planning/environmental stages with little real funding for real construction.

http://www.i49south.org/

I always get Evangeline and Acadian mixed-up (two totally different cities - I know)  I grew-up in the MC area, it's interstate comparable to what we used to drive on old 90.  Heck, just the fact that you can get from Lafayette to NO on 4-lanes has been an improvement.  I recall it taking me up to 45 min some mornings to get to school in Thibodeaux.  Now you can get to Thib. in 20.

Haven't done the route your talking 'bout since Jan. (Buried grandpa in Eunice, then went back to Marrero via pitstop in MC) Actually, that was my last drive in La.  Still, there have been quite the improvements.  Hey, look how long it took them to finish the hwy from S Houston to Galveston (59 I think)

Oops... Accidentally hit "submit" too soon.

LMOL

Hahahaha!  In the days of the pogie plant at that (pre-Marine Shale) I remember being on the bus in those days. (parents sent me to private school in MC in early days, lived in Amelia.)  Damn!  and I thought I had it bad having to catch the bus at 630am... leaving Centerville to Nicholls, that must have been like 530am

Good times !!