This. Baton Rouge suffers from a massive lack of redundancy in its road grid. Due to the number of water ways and bridges required to cross them, there are so few consistent north/south or east/west roads. The south half of the city is filled with choke points.

To leave the city going south, there are 3 choke points: 30 at Gardere, I-10 at highland/perkins, and Airline at 42.

To leave the city going east, there’s only 3 options: Magnolia Beach Road, Florida, and I-12.

To leave the city going west, there’s only 2 options: old bridge or new bridge.

It’s easy to go north, but there’s not nearly as much development north of the city.

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Posted by lostinbr

Baton Rouge, LA

Member since Oct 2017

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Posted on 4/24/24 at 4:51 pm to kingbob

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It’s easy to go north, but there’s not nearly as much development north of the city.

I don’t even think going north is necessarily “easy.” Scenic Hwy and Plank will both take you out of the city to the north, but to get to either you have to take I-10 to I-110.. which effectively means fighting bridge traffic. Either that or you get to take Airline to the foot of the old bridge.

There are at least multiple routes to Central (Central Thwy, Sherwood, Joor, Hooper) but I don’t know many people in Central who would describe commuting to/from BR as “easy.” Depends where you work, of course.

This post was edited on 4/24/24 at 4:58 pm

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Posted by nicholastiger

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Posted on 4/25/24 at 5:52 am to kingbob

You can blame state and federal govt incompetence going back to the 80s but thanks for your astute observations about the traffic
The fix won’t be easy as it’s easily 25 years of work just to get it functional

One bridge is not the solution when the. Infrastructure around city can’t support it

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