Dear Baton Rouge Folk, Your Traffic Sucks arse

Protip: Take the Loop.

You may not know, but some people shoot other people in Baton Rouge too.

and they act like everywhere is like that hell hole. Its hilarious

What sucks is I went to those damn loop meetings back in the early 2000s. Twenty years to complete seemed like a long time, but much of it would have been done by now. But damn it. Why couldn't they make it work?

I hated the Baton Rouge bridge and the traffic when traveling in my RV.

I avoid BTR like the plague. It just sucks at all times of the day now.
Shreveport has many many problems, but hot damn, BTR needs to copy their road infrastructure. LOOPS & parkways on either side of the river.

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I know not telling you fine ladies and gentlemen anything you don’t already know, but I seem to completely forget how horrible it is trying to traverse, especially via the interstate, then I’m reminded each time.

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It's horrific. There has been far more traffic than lane capacity for at least 20 years now.

And there aren't enough alternative routes so a minor tie up can shut the whole region down pretty easily. And the bridges over the Mississippi river are so dysfunctional and insufficient that the inevitable suburban sprawl spreads farther and farther down I-12 and I-10 rather than moving west.

There are some pretty major things we need very soon:
- Widen I-10 between LA415 and College Drive
- Widen LA30 between Airline Highway (in Gonzales) to LSU
- Build a new bridge over the Mississippi somewhere around Plaquemine that connects I-10 and LA1 to LA30
- Build a new bridge over the Amite River at Hooper Road and S. Harrel's Ferry Rd.
- Widen Airline Highway
- Fix College Drive
- Widen US 190 through Livingston
- Widen most parish roads in Livingston, Ascension, Central, Zachary, and WBR
- Build some kind of street car system connecting LSU and downtown, and eventually downtown to mid city and beyond.

Sweet! Now people on this board can’t always bitch about Atlanta traffic!

It still pretty funny. Just awful traffic no matter where you go.

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Good news is, this will all be MUCH better when the loop is completed and open in Q3 of 2025. It’ll be more enjoyable visiting then.

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Just wait till we tear down the elevated eastbound side of I-10 from Acadian to the I-110 interchange this summer, I’m going to need a helicopter to go to work for the remainder of my life.