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Louisiana pre-research tips

#1 Post by 55sixxx » 18 Sep 2021 01:23

There wasn't one for Louisiana yet and since i created the "Discussion" thread for it, i might as well do the same for the "pre-research" too.

My concept map:

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It may be a bit too dense but it could work.

This state will introduce a whole new scenery to the game, a scenery know as "Bayou". In usage in the Southern United States, a bayou is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area; it may refer to an extremely slow-moving stream or river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), a marshy lake or wetland or a creek whose current reverses daily due to tides, which contains brackish water highly conducive to fish life and plankton. Bayous are commonly found in the Gulf Coast region of the southern United States, especially in the Mississippi River Delta. A bayou is frequently an anabranch or minor braid of a braided channel that is moving much slower than the mainstem, often becoming boggy and stagnant.

A small part of I-10 from Louisiana:

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Louisiana Truck speed limit: 70MPH

Cities that must be in the DLC: Shreveport, Monroe, Alexandria, Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, New Orleans.

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Since i'm an outsider (I'm not from the US), i don't have that much knowledge about this subject, but i try my best to learn more everyday. This OP may not be as detailed as it would be if made by a US resident but I'll try my best at posting more relevant stuff as time goes by.
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LA-23

#2 Post by plinio.lisboa.br » 20 Sep 2021 13:11

Hello.
Today we are going to make a contribution on the American state of Louisiana. More specifically, the LA-23 highway.
The highway connects New Orleans to the southernmost point of the state. Along the highway there are several small towns and communities, and important economic activities such as: fish fishing, seafood capture, and also significant industrial activity: fish and seafood processing, petroleum processing. And some companies even have heliports (from where workers on the oil rigs depart and arrive) from oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico.

Route: https://www.google.com.br/maps/dir/29.9 ... 0?hl=pt-BR

The route also has its natural attractions such as the "swamp biome", and cultural attractions and historical landmarks worthy of ATS.
- State extreme south sign: Located at the end of the route.
- Fort Jackson: Important in US history during the Civil War. A beautiful star-shaped fort.

1. LA-23 South - Gretna / Terrytown. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLzNnnIS2yY


2. Louisiana Hwy 23 South - Belle Chasse (Tunnel). Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1HPG8yiThA


3. Louisiana Hwy 23 South - Belle Chasse – Oakville - Jesuit Bend (Mile 61 to 5 1mile).
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxgx-2EYDFA


4. Louisiana Hwy 23 South - Myrtle Grove (Mile 51 to 41 mile). Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ0gFT82vlk



5. Louisiana Hwy 23 South West Pointe a la Hache (Mile 41 to 34 mile). Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsolO5agHI8



6. Louisiana Hwy 23 South - Port Sulphur. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cIbpG0wLmQ



7. Louisiana Hwy 23 South: Port Sulphur – Empire. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IBTl810pkg



8. Louisiana Hwy 23 South: Empire - Buras – Triumph - Buras/Triumph. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJucigXL8VQ



9. Louisiana Hwy 23 South - Boothville/Venice - The End of the Road. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKu2_lCtMY



The region's economy is well diversified. Some companies are worth mentioning. And they could be major assets for ATS, DLC LOUISIANIA, route LA-23.


1. Chevron Oronite
Site: https://www.oronite.com/
Localization: https://www.google.com.br/maps/@29.8099 ... 3?hl=pt-BR
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XW2Dz3OYxI



2. Saxon Becnel and Sons
Site: https://www.saxonbecnelandsons.com/
Localization: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.721252, ... a=!3m1!1e3
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LhaZD61Q5g



3. Phillips 66 Refinery Alliance - Belle Chasse
Site: https://www.phillips66.com/refining/alliance-refinery
Localization: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.6811181 ... a=!3m1!1e3


4. International Marine Terminals
Site: https://www.bluewatershipping.com/locat ... .php?ld=18

Pdf: https://www.kindermorgan.com/WWWKM/medi ... minals.pdf

Localization: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.6228746 ... 3?hl=pt-BR

Other pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lowermiss ... 528020402/



5. Tenesse Gas Gas Pipeline Company L.L.C
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Gas_Pipeline
Localization (station): https://www.google.com/maps/@29.5162368 ... a=!3m1!1e3




6. Daybrook Fisheries Inc.
Site: https://daybrook.com/
Localization: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.3823721 ... 3?hl=pt-BR




7. Targa Resources.
Site: https://www.targaresources.com/
Localization: https://www.google.com.br/maps/@29.2371 ... 3?hl=pt-BR
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LA-11

#3 Post by plinio.lisboa.br » 22 Sep 2021 12:07

Good morning, today we are going to bring the road complement close to the LA-23 highway. It is current LA-11, ancient LA-23.

It can be very useful as a built-in area on the ATS Louisiania map, but there are no relevant industrial attractions on its route.
The highway could be used for loads in the "ATS - DLC: LOUISIANIA", with the transport of "pre factory houses", "construction machinery" (perhaps with: ''bob cats", "excavators") as it already exists in the game. the southernmost area is usually a hurricane
route, and has many oil companies, fish companies and some citrus.


The choice of some area to represent the delivery of:

a) "prefab home": arrival and departure destination for cargo from "prefab homes" from other regions of Louisiana and other states to working housing areas on route LA-11. Exemple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxOd_hHfpQc

b) "construction machinery": destination and arrival of construction machinery for earthmoving prefab houses. Construction machinery in arrival and departure flow on LA-11 from other regions of Louisiana.
1. Exemple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTDcuy0ZnX4
2. Exemple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krdW-GB58B0
3. Exemple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbO_4_eJW_o


I hope the searched content is useful. Greetings. "Towards South Louisiana".

Photos:
Below is a brief survey of types of trailers capable of transporting the machinery "small loader" also called; "skid steer loader".
And also some combinations of accessories and products related to the activity of using machinery in civil construction.

Photo 1: https://freedomheavyhaul.com/wp-content ... sport.jpeg
Site reference:https://freedomheavyhaul.com/experience ... transport/

Photo 2: https://d9z1tpn605xsl.cloudfront.net/up ... nt_img.jpg
Site Reference: https://www.plantandequipment.com/news/ ... -groningen

Photo 3: https://www.tractortransport.com/blog/w ... 8x576.jpeg
Site Reference: https://www.tractortransport.com/blog/s ... transport/

Photo 4: https://www.rkenergyservicesinc.com/sit ... teenth.jpg
Site Reference: https://www.rkenergyservicesinc.com/default.htm

Photo 5: http://scottwoodstransport.com/wp-conte ... 1266-1.jpg
Site Reference: http://scottwoodstransport.com/our-services/open-deck/

Photo 6: https://mms.businesswire.com/media/2017 ... ue_sky.jpg
Site Reference: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/ ... ith-Daseke

Photo 7: https://1-87vehicles.org/images/misc_co ... _ls_lg.jpg
Site Reference: https://1-87vehicles.org/photo521/ford_ ... obcats.php

Photo 8. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qO2I-xmsP-Y/maxresdefault.jpg
Video Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO2I-xmsP-Y



1. Louisiana Hwy 11 North (Old Louisiana Hwy 23) Part 1
Video:

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LoBi4kRKIs

Reference point in video: 07:06 vintage oil station. Ancient iconic point in highway.
Street view: https://www.google.com.br/maps/@29.3415 ... 6?hl=pt-BR


2. Louisiana Hwy 11 North (Old Louisiana Hwy 23) Part 2
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmcuzPFy9Pg


3. Louisiana Hwy 11 North (Old Louisiana Hwy 23) Part 3
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izfdT4BLBIY
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Re: Louisiana pre-research tips

#4 Post by GT182 » 19 Oct 2022 18:31

I've been thru Louisianna several times back in the 80s. Even had an accident on a rainy night where a woman was making a right turn.... no signal light. She stopped right in the middle of the turn, and I couldn't stop fast enough. Caught her with the right side of my bumper. She wasn't too happy. She'd just bought a big ol bucket of shelled oysters and it tipped over. All over her trunk. The cop and I went to a restaurant 500 feet down the street to fill out the paperwork. No ticket for me. He even laughed about. I even bought his coffee. And no, not as a bribe.

I had a friend in St. Francisville that also had a GTO. I even spent a week with him and his wife. She passed away a couple of years ago and he passed on back in January. All the people I met there were as nice as can be. Even to a Yank from Northern NY. The best part of that trip was seeing the National WII Museum, the rebuilding of PT 305, and the colonial mansions. As for the museum, if you ever get to New Orleans, you have to go see it and the movie "Beyond all Boundaries", narrated by Tom Hanks. I guarantee will not leave with dry eyes and will not be able to speak for a while. Plus, something happens in the theater that will make you say, "Oh crap!" That's how moving it was.

As for a mod. I'm glad to see St. Francisville included. Looks to be a great mod. :thumbup:
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Re: Louisiana pre-research tips

#5 Post by cydonianmystery » 01 Jan 2023 15:57

55sixxx wrote: 18 Sep 2021 01:23 Louisiana Truck speed limit: 70MPH
Just FYI for OP and devs alike, on I-10 across the Atchafalaya Basin the truck speed limit is reduced to 55 mph.
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Re: Louisiana pre-research tips

#6 Post by cydonianmystery » 15 Feb 2023 23:00

I got tagged by one of the devs, so I'm going to summarize some stuff that I know about the Florida Parishes region of Louisiana.

Geographic Summary
The Florida Parishes are all of Louisiana east of the Mississippi River excluding New Orleans. They got their name from being the westernmost part of Spanish Florida, and being part of a very briefly lived republic known as West Florida in 1812. New Orleans was acquired seperately, and is culturally still very much its own thing. I would defer to an actual NOLA native to detail that city.

Much of the Florida Parishes (from now on "FP") are flat, dominated by forests of deciduous trees. Southern Pines are also common, especially the further north you get toward the Mississippi border. As you go along the northeast part of the FP, you get into Saint Francisville and its prominent bluffs. The bluff lands continue all the way to the Mississippi border, with the famed Tunica Hills.

Agriculture and Forestry
The notorious Angola State Penitentary is also in this area; it might be too political and controversial for SCS to include, but it is essentially a modern day plantation using prison labor to produce large quantities of agricultural and animal products. It is also home to a very popular local event, the Angola Prison Rodeo. Consider at your own discretion.

Beyond that, there is abundant pasture land in the FP. Animal husbandry is the main form of agriculture here, and most crop farming consists of hay and corn raised for cattle. We have ranches, cattle farms, and a prominent dairy industry centered mainly in Washington Parish.

There is also extensive tree farming and company forests, mainly used for making paper. Near my home town, Zachary, is a large Georgia Pacific paper mill that takes loads of trees and wood chips from vocational truckers and makes various paper products. Due to map scale however, I'm not expecting Zachary to be more than a scenery town. It has no other trucking-related stuff to speak of outside of a small cement plant and the usual retailers, but it is a major route through which trucks travel on LA-19.

Baton Rouge and the Petrochemical Industry
The largest city in the FP is the state capital, Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge is a major center of the petrochemical industry, with the Exxon (would be ARON or Gallon Oil in-game) refinery being one of the largest employers in the city. There are also warehouses, smaller workshops and industries, with one of the main hubs of this being Industriplex Boulevard, which would be an important location in ATS. Also adjacent to the Exxon refinery is a Kansas City Southern rail yard.

The massive oil refinery is not the only petrochemical facility in Baton Rouge. In Scotlandville, the northern part of Baton Rouge, is the Exxon plastics plant. It specifically specializes in, you guessed it, polymer production.

The former Cortana Mall was recently demolished and a massive Amazon (Sell Goods in-game) warehouse is under construction there. It will be a critically important depot by the time any Louisiana DLC is in development, and I would strongly recommend its inclusion.

Beyond BR and the FP
The Port of Baton Rouge is located across the river, in Port Allen. It is the last seaport on the Mississippi River, as the nearby Huey P Long - OK Allen Bridge (literally nobody calls it that locally; it's "the Old Bridge") is too low for seafaring vessels to cross and this is the point that the river stops being dredged. Beyond this, only barge traffic may pass; and pass they do, coming and going with cargo across the Mid-South and Midwest thanks to the vast inland waterways provided by the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. As a result, the Port of BR would be an extremely important depot.

Port Allen itself is also at the heart of Louisiana sugar cane farming and milling. Trucks are extensively used to haul freshly harvested cane in specialized trailers from the fields, and also transport fuel as the fields are subjected to controlled burning after harvest. Also nearby are a number of chemical plants, making up the infamous "Cancer Alley" of Louisiana. Players who do hazmat loads will love this area. And all are vitally important to the greater Baton Rouge economy.

Other Industries
Vocational trucking is seen extensively in the FP. We have prominent sand and gravel mining industries, particularly along the Amite River. Carbon black is also transported to plants here. Trucks in general are very important here because of a decayed rail infrastructure. Y'all can thank Canadian National for that after they bought out Illinois Central. :roll:

If you consider adding a nuclear industry, as was done in Vive La France!, Saint Francisville is home to the River Bend Nuclear Generating Station. The nuclear industry in the US is very heavily guarded, and any inclusion should reflect this accordingly. What SCS calls "feature rich" checkpoints. I would not hold my breath on its inclusion for the same reason; a lot of information on these facilities is closely protected.

Major Routes

Interstates
Baton Rouge is served by I-10 and I-12, with the Ten-Twelve Split being located in South Baton Rouge. I-10 also splits into I-110 at the Horace Wilkinson Bridge (again; nobody locally calls it that, it's "the New Bridge"). I-110 goes north and ends at Southern University in Scotlandville, terminating at US-61; while I-10 crosses the river at the New Bridge and continues on toward the Atchafalaya Basin and Acadiana.

I-110 was built while the Interstate Highway System was still teething out issues, and is replete with obsolete features such as left-hand exits. A prominent cloverleaf at Airline Highway (US-61) reflects abandoned plans to transform it into an Interstate 410, essentially a loop/bypass. This never happened. Nonetheless it's an important thoroughfare on the way to the "Old Bridge".

I-55 is a significant north-south route, terminating at I-10 in Laplace (pronounced the French way; lah-plahs) after threading between Lake Ponchartrain (ponch-ah-train) and Lake Maurepas (more-eh-pah), and continuing north all the way to Chicago. Locally it intersects with I-12 at Hammond, with nearby Robert being home of Walmart's (Wallbert's) main grocery distribution center in Louisiana. From there it continues on to Kentwood, again home to locally important dairy industries, and on to the Mississippi border.

I-59 splits off from I-10 at Slidell, on the banks of the Pearl River. It will not play much of a role in Lousiana, but will be one of the main north-south routes in Mississippi. So not much more than a stub for this DLC.

Other Highways
US-61 is a major north-south route that goes from New Orleans all the way to Memphis, and locally connects NO, BR, and St. Francisville. It is a very important truck route, and includes the aforementioned paper mill as well as a Marathon terminal, among many other industries.

US-190, known in Baton Rouge as Florida Boulevard, is a major east-west route that connects Baton Rouge with points east, terminating in Covington. Though I-12 runs nearby, it is still a heavily trafficked road.

LA-10 is a curious east-west route that runs from just past I-55 toward St. Francisville. It then runs simultaneous with US-61 between St. Francisville and a tiny community called Star Hill (whose name always reminds me of Super Mario RPG). There it splits off and runs through forested swampland until it crosses the Mississippi via the John James Audubon Bridge, toward New Roads.

LA-19 connects Baton Rouge with Norwood, running alongside the Canadian National railway route. It is also a major trucking route, especially for vocationals. It includes the aformentioned city of Zachary, as well as Baker and Slaughter. Slaughter is home to a number of workshops, and has surrounding farmland. It runs to the Mississippi state line, where it terminates in Cenreville, Mississippi as MS-33.

LA-25 is a special case of a north-south route. It terminates in New Orleans at the end of the famed Ponchartrain Causeway, and continues north past Franklinton before terminating as MS-27 in Tylertown, Mississippi.

Conclusion
Alright, this is already an extremely long post, and a lot to read in one sitting, but it should cover the bases. But if any dev has any further questions, feel free to ask ITT or even DM me. I know I didn't cover much about monuments and sightseeing, but I can cover that later.
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Re: Louisiana pre-research tips

#7 Post by GT182 » 21 Feb 2023 02:07

Shell had a refinery in Convent, LA. I delivered high pressure ball and gate valves there a couple of times that came out of Velan Valve of Burlington, VT. Same valves I delivered to Houston's refinery and a So. Los Angeles warehouse. It's now being repurposed from refining crude oil to aviation and diesel fuels. It would be a good business addition from Burlington to Louisiana, Texas and California. We need the variety.

Velan Valve products: https://www.velan.com/en/products

Actually, now that Quebec has been added as a mod, trips out of Burlington, VT to the west carrying valves; and return trips of produce back to Montreal's grocery warehouses would be a great addition.
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Re: Louisiana pre-research tips

#8 Post by GT182 » 21 Feb 2023 02:23

cydonianmystery, you didn't mention the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. ;) https://www.bing.com/images/search?view ... ajaxserp=0

I was actually on PT-305 while it was being rebuilt. And I even have a 16"x8" section of the original side planking as a souvenir, given to me by the museum. The Higgins built PT-305 was sold after WWII and came to Delaware to be a crabbing boat. Once here 15" was cut off the stern and... if I recall correctly, 1 Packard engine was removed. It is now fully restored to as it was when it left New Orleans for WWII with 3 Packard engines.

And yes, I have been there and was gob smacked by it. Especially by the movie "Beyond All Borders". That movie left me with a loss for words. I could hardly talk for a hour after seeing. It was that moving, it even made us cry. Oops... don't spread that around.
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Re: Louisiana pre-research tips

#9 Post by GNatZ915 » 03 Mar 2023 06:51

I live in Clinton Louisiana and commute to Port Allen everyday (about 36 miles one way, 5-7 days a week). On top of that my family and friends are quite spread out, so I have almost a half million miles driven in Louisiana over my life as I drive around 30,000 miles a year on average. I run a dashcam, and it wouldnt be much to save recordings and photos of areas that I drive regularly. I also know of some areas that are quite photogenic for scenery, have a rough estimate on truck usage for many highways around the Baton Rouge area and average traffic conditions.

cydonianmystery's post well summorizes what input I would add also as we live in the same general area (I went to school in Zachary, La as they talked about above). I will add points of interest as I remember them in this area. I recommend considering adding LA 10 from US 61 to I 55 as mentioned above along with the Audubon bridge, as in recent times with completed road repairs/repaved along this route and worsening traffic issues in Baton Rouge its becoming a more common bypass around the city from Alexandria to I 55. The I 10 bridge backing up is a daily occurance, slowing to 5 mph or less along the bridge to continue down I 10 until meeting I 110. The I 10-I 12 split to the town of Denham Springs on I 12 also backs up daily. Wrecks are a nearly daily occurance along this area. The route total from I 49 in Alexandria to I 12 in Hammond by taking I 49 to I 10 to I 12 is 10 miles longer and yet only 20-25 minutes shorter than taking LA 1 from Alexandria down to LA 10 and the Audubon bridge, to go north on US 61 a few miles to continue down LA 10 to I 55, then south to I 12. The backup on the I 10 bridge alone not including any backup on I 12 can well exceed this additional time that the rural route takes. The 2018 estimate of traffic that crosses the I 10 bridge is 125,000 per day, given my own observations from my work being within sight of this bridge I can tell yall now that the traffic is much higher today. Truck traffic makes up at least 20% of this traffic on I 10. The traffic when I cross the Audubon bridge with a backup of both Baton Rouge bridges is probably a tenth of that, but still daily truck traffic total well into in the 1000s on a heavy traffic day for truck traffic based on just a few miles of being on LA10. The US 190 bridge is quite unfriendly for trucks, there is only 24 feet of road deck for two lanes minus the guardrails its quite a tight fit for trucks, the uphill and downhill gradients are steep and blind over the top so when wrecks occur they are severe, and on the Baton Rouge side there is a railroad underpass with a height limit of 13ft 6 in, which is the same height as a standard dry van trailer. There is also a temporary weight restriction on the underpass bridge under the plank road crossing over US 190 of 65,000 gcvw. With the buffeting wind from the one kilometer wide river at this crossing its quite unnerving in a car for most let alone a truck. Despite how far out the way the audubon bridge is, the truck traffic is fairly similar on I 10 backup days.

In addition to the roads and locations listed in the above mentioned post, LA 67 (known locally as Plank Road) has several potential delivery/shipper locations. Its main used run by trucks is from US 190 (Airline Highway) to my town of Clinton, running generally parallel to LA 19. Although its considered a less major route than La 19, plank road is more commonly used by trucks to get to/from US 190/US 61 to bypass most of the I 10 and I 12 back up as 190 runs more or less parallel to I 12 through to slidell. The bus US190 route is Florida blvd, Airline hwy is both US 61 and US 190 from the meeting of scenic highway (US 61 from St Francisville) until it meets Florida blvd where US 61 continues to new orleans and US 190 heads east. Plank road has the private/helipad terminal entrance to the Baton Rouge Metropolitan airport, and runs along the direct edge of the airport fenceline. A large CocaCola bottling plant is across plank road from the airport also, this is only a few miles north of US 190. Included also along plank road is some of the towns listed in the above mentioned post for LA 19, Brownsfield, Baker, Zachary, Slaughter, then Clinton. In Slaughter and Clinton there is a pallet repair and distributer, several large cattle farms, a rodeo arena/cattle auction, waste containers manufacturer, and a small operation decal graphics/sign producer located on or directly off of plank road. More than one of the cattle farms are located on very scenic and unique gravel roads that are unique due to the soil type in that area in how the roads sink below normal ground level. On request I can provide pictures or even video of these. With adding the audubon bridge, LA 1 from LA 10 to US 190 should be considered. It sees about the usage of plank road in traffic but less truck traffic. False river along this route is very scenic and unique also.

The town of Clinton is located at the junction of LA 10, LA 67 and LA 63, and also is the setting for many different B-list movies. Louisiana provides major tax cuts for movie filming, so lower budget films like to film in the state. Clinton is common for filming colonial or civil war era films thanks to its large columned courthouse, rural location, and welcoming people. Although the full year population is around 2000 for the town, given its central location and being the parish seat of East Feliciana there are far more people in the town at any given time during the day than the normal population.

In the town of port allen, in addition to the points already given about the port of Baton Rouge and sugar cane being grown starting at the perimeter of the town, there is a kenworth dealer, community coffee (thats the brand name of the coffee) manufacturing plant, several steel recycling plants and piping manufacturers, and a car shipment railyard all located around I 10 between LA 415 and LA 1.

Common speed limits of roads is fairly similar to texas in towns, gradual progression from the rural speed limit to the town limit of 25. More major roads have higher limits, such as LA 19 and LA 67 are 45 for 4 lane total or 40/35 for 2 lane through the towns. It varies based on the town, La 67 in Clinton heading north starts at 55 then town limit is 45, then goes from 2 to 4 lane and drops to 40, then gets to the town center and drops to 35. La 10 through Clinton does the progression from 55 down to 25, but stays 2 lane. The major US highways are 50 in cities with stoplights, and outside the city if the highway is divided is 65 mph. Interstates in the city or long overpass bridges such as I 110 or the I 10 basin bridge is 60mph, suburban areas are typically 65, and rural tree lined interstate is 70. Truck speed limits are almost never different with the exception of a few of the major long run bridges that also have lane restrictions. Rural 2 lane roads are 55, 45 near towns, and as low as 25 in town. Particularly curvy 2 lane roads may be 45.
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Re: Louisiana pre-research tips

#10 Post by GNatZ915 » 06 Mar 2023 00:25

Here are some relevant links to my post above for more information.

John James Audubon Bridge LA 10 Mississippi river bridge ("audubon bridge" locally)
https://www.johnweeks.com/river_mississ ... iss19.html

Horace Wilkinson Bridge I 10 Mississippi river bridge ("new bridge" locally)
https://www.johnweeks.com/river_mississ ... iss12.html
Realistic colors photo of the I 10 bridge and port lighting at night
https://www.dreamstime.com/mississippi- ... e147072515

Hewy P Long Bridge US 190 Mississippi river bridge ("old bridge")
https://www.johnweeks.com/river_mississ ... iss11.html
More recent picture of its current paint color and more information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_P._L ... ton_Rouge)

Although these are out of date for the details such as traffic flow (which is far higher for all the bridges) and paint (and the extra equipment around the audubon bridge) they are very realistic views of the bridges there with lots of detailed stats. The US 190 bridge is now painted a light silver/grey color instead of orange/brown. That website has many of the new orleans bridges also listed.

Up to date photo of the Baton Rouge sign on the Mississippi waterfront on the levee also including the state capitol building in the background as seen from the I 10 bridge
https://www.swedishnomad.com/things-to- ... louisiana/
There is no good photos of this sign at night, but it is lighted in the same red also.

State capitol building, up to date photos, and information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Capitol
"At 450 feet (137 m) tall and with 34 stories, it is the tallest skyscraper in Baton Rouge, the seventh tallest building in Louisiana, and tallest capitol [building] in the United States."
Capitol Building at night.
https://64parishes.org/entry-image/the- ... e-at-night
It is visible clearly from over 15 miles away, I cannot upload but I have a photo I personally took of the capitol building and the I 10 bridge at night from LA 1 between I 10 and US 190 about 3 miles away. It sticks out clearly visible day and especially nighttime on the skyline from the I 10 bridge and the majority of I 110.

Zachary-Taylor Parkway, LA 1 in Alexandria and LA 10 through to Mississippi including parts of US 61 in St Francisville.
https://byways.louisianatravel.com/bywa ... or-parkway

LA 10 from the Audubon bridge to the Mississippi border is also now officially designated as a Scenic Byway as part of this parkway only in recent years, which only even more recently came with road improvements and speed limit revisions that has seen the traffic flow dramatically increase in the section between the bridge and I 55. There are no current official traffic flow numbers on this section after the majority of these improvements have been done, but given I've lived in the LA 10 area all my life, I can tell that the official numbers are half or lower than what it is actually today on the parkway.

The current as of 2016 traffic flow of the audubon bridge is 3400 per day, this is probably 2/3 to half of today in my own observation, and up into the 10,000s when the other Baton Rouge bridges (specifically when US 190 has issues as its the alternate route for I 10 for its normal backup) have a closure/standstill which happens a few times a month. LA 10 sees about 1/4 the traffic of the audubon bridge across the whole length with higher amounts around the towns, but the high traffic days of Baton rouge bridge issues I avoid entirely as a good portion of this overflow above normal takes that route.
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