re: Dear Baton Rouge Folk, Your Traffic Sucks arse

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I know not telling you fine ladies and gentlemen anything you don’t already know, but I seem to completely forget how horrible it is trying to traverse, especially via the interstate, then I’m reminded each time.

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It's horrific. There has been far more traffic than lane capacity for at least 20 years now.

And there aren't enough alternative routes so a minor tie up can shut the whole region down pretty easily. And the bridges over the Mississippi river are so dysfunctional and insufficient that the inevitable suburban sprawl spreads farther and farther down I-12 and I-10 rather than moving west.

There are some pretty major things we need very soon:
- Widen I-10 between LA415 and College Drive
- Widen LA30 between Airline Highway (in Gonzales) to LSU
- Build a new bridge over the Mississippi somewhere around Plaquemine that connects I-10 and LA1 to LA30
- Build a new bridge over the Amite River at Hooper Road and S. Harrel's Ferry Rd.
- Widen Airline Highway
- Fix College Drive
- Widen US 190 through Livingston
- Widen most parish roads in Livingston, Ascension, Central, Zachary, and WBR
- Build some kind of street car system connecting LSU and downtown, and eventually downtown to mid city and beyond.