re: Is BR traffic really that bad?

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However, I do not disagree that the infrastructure in Baton Rouge is adequate

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It is totally inadequate for a metro area our size.

It started with a poorly designed interstate with poorly planned exits and entrance ramps.
Examples; I-10/I-110, I-10 at Washington, Dalrymple, Perkins (all within a mile and a half of each other), Millerville which goes nowhere, and Essen which ends at BRCC.

It continues on with few primary cross streets that aren't also used to enter and exit the interstate; thus putting cars who want to cross town in competition with cars who want to get on and off the interstate.
Prime examples; College, Sherwood Forrest.

And the fact that the north side of town has an excellent grid system, while the south side is terrible.

Then there's no loop for truckers and interstate travelers or a by-pass which sends traffic from Ascension thru EBR who wants to get to Livingston and vice versa.

Then you have residential streets like Kenilworth, parts of Sherwood, parts of Bluebonnet, Staring, etc. which are major cross streets and the efforts are made not to move traffic through smoothly but to discourage traffic and make it slow down.

And streets like Lee that can't be touched.