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re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?
Posted on 6/23/16 at 1:49 pm to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 6/23/16 at 1:49 pm to Tigeralum2008
I'm not reading all the pages but I will speculate that I-12 and I-10 are what did most of it. I know that 12 was just getting finished around 1972 or so and at the time NBR was just fine. But with I-12 much further south all the new development was pulled down there, leaving NBR to stagnate.
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Posted on 6/23/16 at 1:59 pm to foshizzle
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I'm not reading all the pages but I will speculate that I-12 and I-10 are what did most of it. I know that 12 was just getting finished around 1972 or so and at the time NBR was just fine. But with I-12 much further south all the new development was pulled down there, leaving NBR to stagnate.
Not really, the big question is why did NBR proper (the area around Istrouma High School, Plank Road, etc go into decline while an area like Southdowns, Terrace, and around Webb Park which isn't an upper scale area and it is also made up of older wood frame housing thrived and is still hanging on today.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 1:59 pm to foshizzle
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I'm not reading all the pages but I will speculate that I-12 and I-10 are what did most of it. I know that 12 was just getting finished around 1972 or so and at the time NBR was just fine. But with I-12 much further south all the new development was pulled down there, leaving NBR to stagnate.
That doesn't really explain it, though, because for years the best interstate infrastructure in BR was in NBR. That was the only 6 lane interstate for the longest time and the traffic there to get to and from downtown was a breeze. I guess the fact that it was just a spur road and not a through way, played some part, but it was pretty negligible, I'd say. I still stand by my original hypothesis, which has been woefully misunderstood by all but a few posters (Martini, most notably) who similarly understand the city's history beyond just the most superficial perspective.
This post was edited on 6/23/16 at 2:01 pm
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