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Explain to me the plan for Downtown BR traffic
Posted on 10/10/14 at 11:20 am
Posted on 10/10/14 at 11:20 am
Currently the South River Road shrinkage (heh!) project is well under way. South River Road is a pretty busy artery during the work week, but now it's not only being made smaller, the two-lan aspect is being moved back to well prior to Florida (with the 2nd ending at Florida, southbound traffic turning left had a handy lane to turn on). This is having the effect of creating traffic lines that sometimes reach all the way back to the Capitol Annex building.
With the coming of the new offices on Third and the couple-hundred jobs (and vehicles) that will accompany that, what are the plans to help move traffic through? Everything I've looked at (downtownbatonrouge.org, the greenlight page, etc) doesn't seem to make any sense, traffic-wise.
I've heard there is some sort of master traffic plan, but it would seem to me that you make flow on your ancillary streets more palatable before constricting a primary artery.
I understand they want to make the downtown area around the LASM/OSC more "pedestrian friendly', but arguably the thing that draws the most crowds is events at the Riverfront and Live After Five. How does making traffic flow in this area worse draw more people to it?
With the coming of the new offices on Third and the couple-hundred jobs (and vehicles) that will accompany that, what are the plans to help move traffic through? Everything I've looked at (downtownbatonrouge.org, the greenlight page, etc) doesn't seem to make any sense, traffic-wise.
I've heard there is some sort of master traffic plan, but it would seem to me that you make flow on your ancillary streets more palatable before constricting a primary artery.
I understand they want to make the downtown area around the LASM/OSC more "pedestrian friendly', but arguably the thing that draws the most crowds is events at the Riverfront and Live After Five. How does making traffic flow in this area worse draw more people to it?
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Posted on 10/10/14 at 11:22 am to Bard
It's simple: make it so people can't leave downtown. By trapping them there, they will have to stay and spend money and it will grow. Otherwise, nobody wants to go there.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 11:23 am to Bard
Wrong board, Downvoted.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 11:26 am to Bard
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but it would seem to me that you make flow on your ancillary streets more palatable before constricting a primary artery.
I might be misunderstanding what you are saying, but I would think you put in the major artery to clear up the mess then work backwards. That way you dont cause even more concongestion then shut down the primary for expansion.
I have a degree, so I am over qualified for road planning.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 11:27 am to Bard
The downtown crowd wants Govt. to shrink, they are shrinking River Road, and they are planning other changes around the area to slow traffic down and to provide parking.
Posted on 10/10/14 at 12:45 pm to TT9
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Wrong board, Downvoted.
Traffic board is closed due to an overtuned 18-wheeler so
Posted on 10/10/14 at 12:57 pm to Mr.Perfect
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I might be misunderstanding what you are saying, but I would think you put in the major artery to clear up the mess then work backwards.
Strangely enough, that's not what's going on. South River Road is a main artery for N-S traffic flow in Downtown area. It used to go from 2-lanes with a wide turning/middle lane and street parking in front of the Old State Capitol to 4 lanes once you got to Florida. Now they've ripped up enough of the 2-lane to remove not only the parking but the turning lane as well in order to put more greenery (lawn, trees, etc) and make it more "pedestrian friendly". They've also moved the 2-to-4 lane change north about a block and a half with the outer lane merging into the inner lane (thus any traffic wanting to go East, as much would do) must now wait until both lanes are merged before they can turn.
And just a block or so north of this is the future home (under construction) of some sort of ATT call center or somesuch that will employ 200-ish folks.
The plan is to drive more east-west traffic, but it completely ignores that a lot of traffic is north-south and the traffic lights are synch'd for faster east-west flow. The route along the river allowed north-south travellers (especially those crossing the bridge) to not clog east-west paths. So where we are at the moment is we've moved from north-south travel and east-west travel being moderate to east-west travel being good and north-south travel being a rolling clusterfrick because they didn't develop a new artery before closing constricting the current one.
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