re: Dear Baton Rouge Folk, Your Traffic Sucks arse

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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.

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Idk man. Commuting from (for example) Zachary may be fine if you work downtown or in north Baton Rouge. But there are just so many people commuting to the I-10 & I-12 corridors and so few ways to get there.

110 is mostly fine while you’re actually driving on it. But how do you get there if you work off of Siegen, Essen, or Bluebonnet? You either fight traffic going damn near all the way to the old bridge on Airline, or you fight traffic going all the way to the new bridge on I-10. Those are basically the only ways to get there other than weaving through neighborhoods in NBR. On top of that, all of that elevated freeway is eventually going to cost a shitload to update.

I’m not saying it’s worse than going east or west, just that it’s still bad.

The problem in BR is that no amount of road upgrades can undo 100 years of shitty urban planning.