re: WBRZ: LSU said what happened with traffic last Saturday will not happen again

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The City should not let the cops control it.

Find the smartest traffic engineer in the country and make him/her/them the traffic czar. Let them observe traffic flow via helicopter, video, etc. for a few games and then devise a plan to best empty the lots. Implement it.

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LSU already did that, though I guess I don’t know if it was the smartest traffic engineer in the country.

TAF hired an outside firm to do a traffic study a few years back. I’m sure there have been some changes to the roads in the area since then, but I’m fairly certain it was after the south upper deck opened at least.

Somebody in one of the other threads posted this link from 2014:

Officials implementing new traffic plan for Saturday’s LSU game

It’s certainly possible that the plan just didn’t work. But keep in mind that LSU doesn’t have full control of everything with regards to traffic management - they are at the mercy of the city/parish (to an extent).

But probably more importantly, LSU relies on law enforcement to actually execute the traffic plan. I thought this quote from the 2014 article was interesting:

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More than 200 officers from a variety of agencies, including 169 from the Baton Rouge Police Department, will be on hand.

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The entire plan was heavily reliant on BRPD for execution. I’m curious how much that has changed given BRPD’s staffing woes the past few years.

My guess is there’s probably plenty of blame to go around. Particularly if nobody was enforcing permits in the paid lots. You would think that responsibility would fall on LSU regardless.

Finally, a practical solution.