re: Dear Baton Rouge Folk, Your Traffic Sucks arse

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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.

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True. But I do think US61 combined with Plank, Scenic, Hooper, 964, etc. do have "good bones" when it comes to routing. They can be upgraded fairly easily. We are far more limited to address the routes west, east, and south without spending a fortune. I-110 is a lot easier to handle than I-10 or I-12, although it's clearly approaching a point where the elevated sections will also need an upgrade.

61 is the biggest and probably needs to be turned into a freeway to the Mississippi state line. It has some pretty big issues itself with alignment, multiple rail crossings, and weird traffic lights where overpasses should have been built. But otherwise I'd have to agree that more development north makes more sense from an infrastructure and typography standpoint. The chokepoints in that direction are easier to address. Also a little less vulnerability to hurricanes.

West Feliciana and Pointe Coupee vary between being militant to resistant to development. But they are making more and more sense now to commuters to the big employers in Baton Rouge's downtown, industrial section, or the LSU area than the distant, outlying areas on the far ends of Ascension or Livingston.

When I commuted I took GS Road all the way down and then cut over to Florida Blvd. to get downtown. Keep it “difficult” to keep the masses out of Central and beyond. It’s bad enough and a quick route will bring more.