FAQs

No. The College Flyover project is limited to reconfiguring the I-10/I-12 westbound interchange and building a new College Drive exit ramp. The larger I-10 widening project will improve the I-10 corridor from LA 415 in West Baton Rouge Parish to the Essen Lane exits on I-10 and I-12. For more information about that project, please visit www.i10br.com.

Construction is anticipated to be completed in early 2025, weather permitting.

Some intermittent, temporary lane closures will be necessary to accommodate construction, but most of those lane closures will last no more than a few days and will be done at night and on weekends.

This project is designed to improve traffic flow and safety at the I-10/I-12 westbound interchange through an updated design and the addition of a dedicated College Drive exit ramp. Upon completion, I-12 westbound lanes approaching the I-10 merger will be shifted to the south, next to the I-12 eastbound lanes. The elevated section of I-10 westbound that now passes over I-12 eastbound will be expanded to pass over I-12 eastbound and westbound. These rebuilt sections of I-12 and I-10 each will have a separate lane for traffic exiting at College Drive, and those separated lanes will merge to form one dedicated College Drive exit ramp. Through this new design, drivers on I-10 will no longer have to change several lanes of traffic in a short distance to exit College Drive.

In a design-build project, a construction contractor and engineer-designer work as a team on design and construction plans for large-scale projects. This allows construction to move forward on some aspects of the project while design plans for later tasks are being finalized. This differs from the traditional design-bid-build process, in which an engineering team designs the project, the owner bids out the construction work, and a contractor builds the project.