Engineers trim proposed routes for BR loop

Riley ‘Pee Wee’ Berthelot, West Baton Rouge Parish president, left, Kip Holden, East Baton Rouge mayor-president, center, and Ronnie Hughes, Ascension Parish president, listen as engineers at the Baton Rouge Loop Executive Committee meeting on Thursday discuss the elimination of proposed routes through Port Vincent, French Settlement and several Ascension Parish areas as well as eliminating two of 12 proposed river crossings.