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2 hours to get through Baton Rouge today

Posted on 2/1/23 at 10:36 pm
Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
46322 posts
Posted on 2/1/23 at 10:36 pm
I mean seriously WTF? I can’t even count the wrecks. Waze wanted to send me 40 miles around the city
Posted by Splackavellie
Bayou
Member since Oct 2017
11465 posts
Posted on 2/1/23 at 10:36 pm to
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send me 40 miles around the city

At least you would be safer.
Posted by TDsngumbo
Member since Oct 2011
45738 posts
Posted on 2/1/23 at 10:39 pm to
Wait until the interstate work starts.
Posted by armsdealer
Member since Feb 2016
12019 posts
Posted on 2/1/23 at 10:39 pm to
Two wrecks crippled Baton Rouge and they want to shut the interstate down to one lane for a few years. Our government is so smart.
Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
46322 posts
Posted on 2/1/23 at 10:41 pm to
Not the way it wanted to send me brother, no way was I doing that shite again.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
37053 posts
Posted on 2/1/23 at 10:43 pm to
I thought you lived in Mississippi or Alabama. What were you doing in BR?


Giving them design plans for the wall?
Posted by BilbeauTBaggins
probably stuck in traffic
Member since May 2021
7284 posts
Posted on 2/1/23 at 11:42 pm to
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Two wrecks crippled Baton Rouge and they want to shut the interstate down to one lane for a few years. Our government is so smart.


Government was about to imminent domain the hell out of some houses AND widen the interstate for a tenth of the current price, but it happened during the George Floyd situation and they backed out from political fear. Hate to see it.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
68395 posts
Posted on 2/1/23 at 11:44 pm to
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2 hours to get through Baton Rouge today


Sounds like you got lucky.
Posted by Tigersbr2nola
Member since Aug 2015
321 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 3:53 am to
So glad I don’t live there anymore.
Posted by Armymann50
Playing with my
Member since Sep 2011
20672 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 4:07 am to
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2 hours to get through Baton Rouge


should have taken the bypass
Posted by DR93Berlin
Member since Jul 2020
1305 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 5:58 am to
Forgo the 2-piece spicy at the Sherwood exit and you’d make it thru in one hour
Posted by TheSadvocate
North Shore
Member since Aug 2020
4523 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 6:08 am to
quote:

I mean seriously WTF? I can’t even count the wrecks. Waze wanted to send me 40 miles around the city



And that's with 3 lanes

Wait'll the 1 lane apocalypse kicks in
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
12509 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 6:18 am to
Subtle “I’m still alive” brag
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
10010 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 6:50 am to
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40 miles around the city


So Baton Rouge has a loop. You just have to take strange 2 lane residential roads, stop at several stoplights, and get stuck at a railroad crossing.

Depending on your route, 90 is better to get to Lafayette. 70-75% is interstate grade. Last light out of metro New Orleans is in Des Allemands. It is interstate grade between Raceland and Morgan City. Bayou Vista/Patterson has another section of lights, but DOTD j turned most of the intersections to limit the lights. Between there and Lafayette, most of the route is limited access except for the urban area in Lafayette, and in Scott where they went J turn crazy.

It has been almost 25 years since 90 was finally 4 laned. The section between Gray and Morgan City was completed in the late 1990’s. It has been designated to extend I49 to New Orleans on this route. By the time the state gets off its arse to finally finish it, it will be another 25 years. I will almost be 70 when that happens.
Posted by OceanMan
Member since Mar 2010
21564 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 6:51 am to
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mean seriously WTF? I can’t even count the wrecks. Waze wanted to send me 40 miles around the city


Waze is part of the loop lobby.
Posted by Snipe
Member since Nov 2015
14094 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 6:53 am to
quote:

Waze wanted to send me 40 miles around the city



This should be your first option even in good days.
Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
20194 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 6:53 am to
You drove over the new bridge when you could’ve detoured to the old bridge at lobdell

Sad
This post was edited on 2/2/23 at 6:56 am
Posted by Tomatocantender
Boot
Member since Jun 2021
5317 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 8:12 am to
It was weird last night on WBRZ. Michael Shingleton, who's usually laid-back, was losing his shite saying people in BR shouldn't complain about 90 mins of traffic to get to Livingston Parish when Dallas has 4-hour commutes. Scratching my head, we are now comparing BR to Dallas? wtf
Posted by perch
Member since Jul 2013
232 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 8:58 am to
2hours and 31 minutes from denton to waxahachie one day.
Posted by A Smoke Break
Lafayette
Member since Nov 2018
2175 posts
Posted on 2/2/23 at 9:02 am to
So fricking happy I commute to lake Charles now and don't live in that shithole.
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