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re: Worst speed limits in the Baton Rouge area
Posted on 5/29/14 at 9:42 am to Grit-Eating Shin
Posted on 5/29/14 at 9:42 am to Grit-Eating Shin
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There was always a rumor that they aligned it that way so that southbound traffic would have a head-on view of the state capital when heading through the curve. He said that wasn't true, and that alignment was the only way that they could connect the two portions of the freeway, due to existing adjacent properties and the railroad track. I don't know how true that is, but I doubt he would have lied
Yeah, one of my professors in college who worked on it said that the view of the Capitol was a side benefit that they just tweaked a little bit. The rest had to do with existing infrastructure and making it work within those confines. I don't have a problem with the 50 MPH there. I've seen some bad wrecks there. People and loads going over the walls into oncoming traffic and such.
Now Bluebonnet extension is some BS.
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Posted on 5/29/14 at 9:49 am to BottomlandBrew
Yeah, 50mph through "Corruption Curve" (what I call it) is definitely justified. There's also a left-side exit just past it. People get pissed when I drive 50mph in the left lane through the curve, but you have to get in that lane early to make that exit at Laurel, so frick 'em.
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