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Livingston committee reviews draft transportation plan; members weigh 'complete streets,' road classifications and funding strategy
Summary
Parish staff presented a draft master transportation plan that includes several priority corridors, parish-wide pavement assessment results, and proposals for road-classification, tailored geotechnical designs and phased 'complete streets' adoption; committee agreed to seek outside experts and invited further briefing at Nov. 3 meeting.
Livingston Parish staff and committee members spent the Oct. 6 Master Plan Review Committee meeting outlining a draft master transportation plan and discussing how "complete streets" principles, road classification, and targeted engineering could shape future projects and unlock funding.
Parish staff described the draft plan as a living document focused on moving people rather than storing vehicles. "Traffic should move people. So, you know, asphalt shouldn't be parked on," a presenter told the committee, summarizing the plan's intent.
Key projects discussed included an expressway extension north into Watson (an extension of Juban), a proposed connection of Highway 449 to the interstate envisioned as an economic corridor, and extending Highway 63 south to Whitehall to create an evacuation route and support the Lower Port area. The draft also calls for intersection and safety improvements, multiuse and "safe routes" projects around denser areas such as…
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