re: Game Traffic

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Why is it so bad exactly? I’ve been to 9-10 SEC venues as well as semifinals and national championships. NOTHING is as bad as traffic after an LSU football game. It makes no sense really how awful it is compared to literally everyone else.

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I think to some degree it is the location of TS and where the fans who are attended are coming/going from.

West of TS is the river
North is downtown and NBR
East is the lakes and SE BR
South is the most "open" area...but its undergone a lot of development over the decades and continues to do so.

I would guess the majority of fans at the game (at least the ones who are driving home after) are from the BR metro area, or areas SE down the river to Nola. Given you probably don't have a large group of people from NBR attending the games, that means the majority of people are trying to got East and South following the game. That causes a ton of congestion because you'll find that if you are traveling North or West after the game traffic isn't all that bad. For instance, if you are traveling out towards the west side of the river it is not all that difficult to take river road to downtown BR and hop on I-10W there. Same if you are going north (Baker, Zachary, St. Francisville, parts beyond). Once you can get to downtown it's pretty easy to get where you are going.

Not so if you want to go east. Everyone has to wind their way through campus, the lakes, Burbank, etc. In BR most of the people attending the games live in the eastern/southeastern part of the parish. You also have a lot of people from the Nola metro area attending the game all trying to go in the same direction.

If you are in other, smaller, towns. Starkville, Oxford, Auburn, College Station, etc, not that many people live in the same town where the stadium is located. So everyone is taking an outlet out of town.