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re: Crash at Burbank and E. Boyd
Posted on 9/30/14 at 10:54 am to The Boat
Posted on 9/30/14 at 10:54 am to The Boat
I actually really like the burbank/e. boyd intersection now. I have been through it every Friday since football started and people dont stop anymore. They continue on burbank like they should. Have had zero issues.
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Posted on 9/30/14 at 10:58 am to Golfer
quote:No, not exclusively. Fourth street is 2-way, and has a center turn lane.
Downtown is a grid of one way, 2 lane streets.
quote:This doesn't preclude a narrow signal spacing provided that they are interconnected. It's actually fairly simple to coordinate the timings. It would be similar to a typical interstate interchange, where the main line gets cleared through the intersection, the minor streets then get a green indicator, and vehicles that turn left onto the main line sit at the red light.
This is four streets, all two way with three running parallel (and only one connecting through), one being 5 lane undivided, one being 2 lane divided, and two 2 lane undivided.
The only problem with interconnecting the signals is that they'd have to upgrade the controllers and run fiber, which isn't cheap.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:00 am to Grit-Eating Shin
quote:
No, not exclusively. Fourth street is 2-way, and has a center turn lane.
No shite. It's center streets on the grid are two way...Florida and 4th...that doesn't change the light sequences, though because you don't have turning issues.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:24 am to Golfer
quote:That's why god made turn signals. Again, this is not an issue that would preclude such a close signal spacing. In the absence of turn lanes, the minor streets can have split phasing. That isn't ideal, but it's probably the only thing that would work. The traffic on Burbank would just have to sit a little while longer than if the minor streets did have turn lanes.
that doesn't change the light sequences, though because you don't have turning issues.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:25 am to PigglyWiggly
quote:
Crash on Burbank at E. Boyd near LSU
Where they took out the fricking traffic signal of course!
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:27 am to Geauxld Finger
quote:
that its a strange place to only have a right turn only in both directions
It's not right turn only any more. It's a traffic free for all.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:32 am to Red Stick Tigress
quote:
Where they took out the fricking traffic signal of course!
I've seen more than one car pushed into the trees where the Sonic now is when the light was there.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:32 am to Grit-Eating Shin
quote:
That's why god made turn signals. Again, this is not an issue that would preclude such a close signal spacing. In the absence of turn lanes, the minor streets can have split phasing. That isn't ideal, but it's probably the only thing that would work. The traffic on Burbank would just have to sit a little while longer than if the minor streets did have turn lanes.
Meh. It's fine as it is now...people just suck at driving.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:34 am to PigglyWiggly
There are wrecks there daily now. And there were wrecks there daily before they took the light out. As long as people ignore the signs or lights, there will continue to be wrecks there.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:38 am to Rabbs and QStick
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Smartest suggestion to date.
I live on Burbank. I suggested this as soon as the change was made. I have been emailing an idiot at DOTD for months.
I am one of the left turners from Boyd to Burbank as I live just past Jennifer Jean. I'm not willing to deal with the traffic on College or Lee to Burbank to get home. Hence, the left turn. Boyd is way better than dealing with the Lee/Highland and Lee/Burbank intersections.
They should take the signal out at Jennifer Jean and put it back at E. Boyd.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:41 am to Red Stick Tigress
quote:
I am one of the left turners from Boyd to Burbank as I live just past Jennifer Jean. I'm not willing to deal with the traffic on College or Lee to Burbank to get home.
You are the problem. The current set up works fine, when people abide.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:44 am to Artie Rome
quote:
You are the problem. The current set up works fine, when people abide.
I am hardly the problem. I don't travel during rush hour.
I have had no problem turning left. I don't use E. Boyd when it is backed up from Burbank to Highland.
There's more of a problem at Highland when people ignore the NO LEFT TURN from E. Boyd.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:50 am to Red Stick Tigress
What direction are you coming from that you have to take Boyd and turn left?
Could you not take one of the streets with a signal to turn left?
Could you not take one of the streets with a signal to turn left?
This post was edited on 9/30/14 at 11:51 am
Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:00 pm to LNCHBOX
quote:
A little common sense would go along way to fixing the issues with traffic around here
The single digit IQ's don't help either. Can't fix stupid, and it's dammed hard to design around it. I truly believe there are many parallels between Louisiana's educational level and traffic woes. Add the poor design of most of Baton Rouge's infrastructure and more per capita 18 wheelers than anywhere else in the country and it's a recipe for traffic disaster. At least it keeps a boatload of shysters and their ad agencies employed.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:03 pm to OneMoreTime
quote:
What direction are you coming from that you have to take Boyd and turn left?
Could you not take one of the streets with a signal to turn left?
From interstate.
Yeah, I could go further away from my condo just to turn left. But I won't. As I said before, I am not out and about during rush hour, so I am not causing traffic problems.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:20 pm to Red Stick Tigress
From college or Stanford?
quote:I think that this stunbornness causes a lot of traffic issues. Not saying that you're causing issues since you don't travel at rush hour, but a lot of people thinking this way causes a ton of issues.
Yeah, I could go further away from my condo just to turn left. But I won't.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:23 pm to OneMoreTime
in one of the first 3 or 4 Burbank/Boyd threads, we went over this same concept with her. she's entitled to turn left at Boyd, and that's all there is to it.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:29 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
I think it's funny that a big reason for taking the light down in the first place was safety. They argued that people turning left onto burbank were causing collisions, so the solution was to eliminate left turns.
So they take out the light and implement right turn only.
Then, they TAKE AWAY the right turn only rule, but do not put the light back up. So now, we have no traffic enforcement at that intersection AND people going straight/taking lefts at an intersection with 5 lanes.
So they take out the light and implement right turn only.
Then, they TAKE AWAY the right turn only rule, but do not put the light back up. So now, we have no traffic enforcement at that intersection AND people going straight/taking lefts at an intersection with 5 lanes.
This post was edited on 9/30/14 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:33 pm to When in Rome
I'm sire IBM will solve this issue along with all other traffic woes we suffer here in Baton Rouge. As I'm sure there was an extensive bidding process and not a favor to pour money at a company that for some reason chose baton rouge.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:36 pm to xLxSxUxFxAxNx
Heard they're putting the signal back up. Idiots won't obey the signs.
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