Start: Baton Rouge, LA – End: Jefferson City, MO
Est. Length: TBD
Benefits: Economic Growth, Population Centers, Evacuation Route, Existing Highways
Connecting: LA: Baton Rouge, Monroe. MS: Natchez. AR: Pine Bluff, Little Rock. MO: Branson, Springfield, Jefferson City
Intersections: I-20, Monroe, LA; I-30 & I-40, Little Rock, AK; I-44, Springfield, MO; I-70, Kingdom City, MO.
Extending Interstate-110, an I-10 Spur in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, north to connect with a southern extension of Interstate-530 – an I-30 Spur - from Little Rock, Arkansas would form a new North-South Interstate with the suggested new designation of I-11. This suggested new and extended interstate would allow critical north-south evacuation route as well as much needed economic development for Louisiana and south Arkansas.
Further, co-routing with I-40 north of Little Rock and extending I-11 north to Branson, Missouri, Springfield and Jefferson City providing an interstate link between three capitol cities in the region. Future extensions north might eventually provide a north-south route from population centers and Great Lakes shipping centers to new population centers and Gulf Coast shipping centers.
3 comments:
Opposed to naming this I-11, on the numbering sequence principle alone; in fact, the plan for I-11 is currently from Phoenix, Ariz., to Las Vegas, Nev. (with an extension northward to Reno, very likely).
Agreed with Anonymous. The logical numbering for this interstate to fit the existing scheme would be I-51 or I-53, probably I-53 since US 51 is not far away and US 53 is.
Indeed, Interstate-11 is underway in Nevada.
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