BATON ROUGE- Legislators heard progress on the brand new Mississippi River Bridge venture to hopefully alleviate dangerous visitors within the Capital Area.
As of now, every part is on schedule with the venture, however which means residents should wait till 2024 till any building might be accomplished.
The ultimate location of the bridge has been narrowed down to a few potential locations, all of them in Iberville Parish.
Fred Raiford is on the bridge initiatives committee, and says there must be an environmental examine earlier than a ultimate location might be picked and building can begin.
Michael Eby lives in Iberville. He instructed WBRZ, the visitors might be actually dangerous typically, and is glad the the bridge will probably be coming to Iberville. He simply desires it now.
“They need to have been completed with that years in the past. On the fee they are going I do not know if I’ll ever see it,” Eby mentioned.
WBRZ requested Raiford if he was involved that the bridge is not going to be inbuilt East Baton Rouge Parish. He instructed us a bridge in Iberville ought to nonetheless assist out with visitors in Baton Rouge.
“That was what the unique examine decided,” Raiford mentioned.
Many on the east facet of the bridge like Barbin Graham inform us visitors is terrible.
Graham instructed WBRZ a brand new bridge cannot come quickly sufficient.
“I want they’d pull the set off. They’ve been speaking about it for 25 years, so I want somebody would simply make a transfer,” Graham mentioned.