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re: Is BR traffic really that bad?
Posted on 7/1/15 at 12:56 pm to Wasp
Posted on 7/1/15 at 12:56 pm to Wasp
However, I do not disagree that the infrastructure in Baton Rouge is adequate. There should be more connectivity but if people didn't live in CCL and send there kids to Catholic High/SJA or live between perkins/highland and send their kids to episcopal or other similar scenarios some of our traffic problems would not exist.
I also agree that we should have neighborhood schools. People should also shop at neighborhood grocery stores instead of driving across town to whole foods.
I also agree that we should have neighborhood schools. People should also shop at neighborhood grocery stores instead of driving across town to whole foods.
This post was edited on 7/1/15 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 7/1/15 at 1:30 pm to Wasp
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However, I do not disagree that the infrastructure in Baton Rouge is adequate
It is totally inadequate for a metro area our size.
It started with a poorly designed interstate with poorly planned exits and entrance ramps.
Examples; I-10/I-110, I-10 at Washington, Dalrymple, Perkins (all within a mile and a half of each other), Millerville which goes nowhere, and Essen which ends at BRCC.
It continues on with few primary cross streets that aren't also used to enter and exit the interstate; thus putting cars who want to cross town in competition with cars who want to get on and off the interstate.
Prime examples; College, Sherwood Forrest.
And the fact that the north side of town has an excellent grid system, while the south side is terrible.
Then there's no loop for truckers and interstate travelers or a by-pass which sends traffic from Ascension thru EBR who wants to get to Livingston and vice versa.
Then you have residential streets like Kenilworth, parts of Sherwood, parts of Bluebonnet, Staring, etc. which are major cross streets and the efforts are made not to move traffic through smoothly but to discourage traffic and make it slow down.
And streets like Lee that can't be touched.
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