I've sat in traffic in Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, DC, Chicago, Austin, Seattle and many many other places with terrible traffic. Yes, they all have bad backups and you sit there for hours... but those cities also have more people trying to get from one place to another than the entire state of Louisiana has at any one time. Baton Rouge can't get a couple hundred thousand people to not want to kill each on the road other EVERY DAY. It really is sad.

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Posted by johnnyrocket

Ghetto once known as Baton Rouge

Member since Apr 2013

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Posted on 8/27/15 at 12:30 pm to lilsnappa

Charlotte is alot nicer city than BR. Visited Charlotte a few times and I can see why they moved. Alot better education system, airport that is a major hub, and better interstate system.

Baton Rouge Area's interstate system is behind the times. One major accident and half the metro area is shutdown. Bigger cities are expanding their major hwy systems.
Meanwhile in Baton Rouge a study to expand the I-10 interstate built in the 1960's has not even started.

This post was edited on 8/27/15 at 12:32 pm

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Posted by lsu13lsu

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Posted on 8/27/15 at 12:48 pm to lilsnappa

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but those cities also have more people

So would you say they have more tax revenues to fund roads? Just a thought. You make the same point I make. Traffic sucks everywhere. It is all relative to which traffic you sit in. How many people is irrelevant because LA has way larger interstates and way larger population. The ratio of people to traffic is probably the same.

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