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The Advocate wants to hear about your parking/traffic issues
Posted on 9/19/14 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 9/19/14 at 3:42 pm
LSU game day traffic, parking plan gets biggest test yet; let us know how it works for you
now we're talking. hopefully, this will bring out some real answers to the traffic problems people are having after the games.
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The Advocate would like to hear about your experience with parking and navigating traffic to and from the game. Did contraflow help or hurt? Contact reporter Ben Wallace at bwallace@theadvocate.com, (225) 388-0370, or on Twitter @_BenWallace.
now we're talking. hopefully, this will bring out some real answers to the traffic problems people are having after the games.
This post was edited on 9/19/14 at 3:44 pm
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Posted on 9/19/14 at 3:43 pm to The Truth 34
quote:It's baton rouge. There's your problem.
the traffic problems
Posted on 9/19/14 at 3:45 pm to ell_13
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It's baton rouge. There's your problem.
:upvote:
Posted on 9/19/14 at 4:00 pm to The Truth 34
Posted on 9/19/14 at 5:41 pm to ell_13
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It's baton rouge. There's your problem.
Well sure, but he's obviously talking about game days.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 5:48 pm to The Truth 34
I've got a simple idea that would really help.
Release an accurate map of closed streets and intended traffic flow routes.
It boggles my mind they won't do this. The current map is useless.
Release an accurate map of closed streets and intended traffic flow routes.
It boggles my mind they won't do this. The current map is useless.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:08 pm to The Truth 34
Biggest problem cops and various other traffic personnel are not on the same plan. You just drive in a complete circle looking for parking
Posted on 9/19/14 at 8:26 pm to Oyster
Problem with that idea is that the "plan" is tentative and changes weekly.
When you think you know what route to take and what lane to be in, it's blocked off the next week.
When you think you know what route to take and what lane to be in, it's blocked off the next week.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 9:10 pm to The Truth 34
It is Louisiana
Posted on 9/19/14 at 9:24 pm to RealityTiger
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Problem with that idea is that the "plan" is tentative and changes weekly. When you think you know what route to take and what lane to be in, it's blocked off the next week.
I understand they need to tweek the plans. How hard is it to share the map with the people driving the route? How the hell do I know how to get home if I don't know the route? Not letting us in on the map only adds to the confusion.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:52 pm to The Truth 34
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Did contraflow help or hurt?
After the SHSU game, I was cruising in the left lane on River Road all the way into downtown... Aside from a few cars behind me, no one else seemed to understand the idea of contra flow. I think it would have worked well had people understood this very simple concept and utilized it.
This post was edited on 9/19/14 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 9/19/14 at 11:24 pm to The Truth 34
If you ride a bike, you have no parking problem.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 11:28 pm to NameWithheld
Old habits die hard. Contraflow goes against our natural tendencies as much as driving on the left side of the road in countries that do it.
Posted on 9/20/14 at 2:14 am to Mudminnow
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You just drive in a complete circle looking for parking
Post-game. Unless you're looking for parking after the game.
This post was edited on 9/20/14 at 2:16 am
Posted on 9/20/14 at 2:17 am to Mudminnow
Yep
Posted on 9/20/14 at 2:29 am to The Truth 34
I hope the people who can't get home because of blocked off streets respond to The Advocate.
Making Nicholson between N. and S. Stadium a pedestrian zone screws up those people trying to get to the MRB.
Local people who live close to campus but not close enough to walk can't get home timely.
Things were better before they started screwing with traffic patterns leading away from campus.
In the way old days, it took us 1/2 hour to get off campus and onto the interstate for the drive back to NOLA. We'd park by the Student Union, behind the law school or where the bookstore is now. Get on Dalrymple I-10 W, exit Louise, do a u-turn and back on I-10 E. Or around the lakes to Morning Glory and/or some back streets to Perkins to Acadian to I-10.
I still say, get rid of the cops, the rent-a-cops, and just have a few on hand to change the traffic lights back to normal. A longer cycle on green lights may make you sit for a few minutes but more people would get through in any direction.
This traffic plan makes everyone go the same direction regardless of where they need to be and that's where and why it's screwed up.
I used to have a parking pass next to the LSU police station and I couldn't get home which is south of LSU (without going miles out of my way and then getting stuck in traffic held up by roadblocks)
Making Nicholson between N. and S. Stadium a pedestrian zone screws up those people trying to get to the MRB.
Local people who live close to campus but not close enough to walk can't get home timely.
Things were better before they started screwing with traffic patterns leading away from campus.
In the way old days, it took us 1/2 hour to get off campus and onto the interstate for the drive back to NOLA. We'd park by the Student Union, behind the law school or where the bookstore is now. Get on Dalrymple I-10 W, exit Louise, do a u-turn and back on I-10 E. Or around the lakes to Morning Glory and/or some back streets to Perkins to Acadian to I-10.
I still say, get rid of the cops, the rent-a-cops, and just have a few on hand to change the traffic lights back to normal. A longer cycle on green lights may make you sit for a few minutes but more people would get through in any direction.
This traffic plan makes everyone go the same direction regardless of where they need to be and that's where and why it's screwed up.
I used to have a parking pass next to the LSU police station and I couldn't get home which is south of LSU (without going miles out of my way and then getting stuck in traffic held up by roadblocks)
Posted on 9/20/14 at 4:31 am to Red Stick Tigress
frick the advocate and frick ben wallace !
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