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re: New BR mayor speaks on traffic (more OT than Poliboard)
Posted on 1/3/17 at 9:46 am to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 1/3/17 at 9:46 am to Tigeralum2008
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NBR would do well to receive a major infrastructure investment. You want to eliminate the NBR development black hole, create an attractive alternative to what is driving the flight to the suburbs.
Bingo, and the number one reason people are fleeing EBR to outlining parishes is the pitiful school system, EBR is compared to our neighbors.
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NBR is a short drive from large employers and most neighborhoods are open grid. All it would take is some real investments such as a Northern loop/raised airline expressway to begin the process of revitalizing NBR.
Unlike SBR, NBR has an excellent grid system of streets. Traffic isn't really an issue. The issues are poverty, crime, and pitiful schools.
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But Ascension could use some major investments on HWY 30, 42, and 74 as well. A new MS bridge where 74/30/River Road meet would be ideal too.
The problem with EBR traffic is a regional problem, and can only be abated by a comprehensive plan including the entire region (Livingston, Ascension, Iberville, EBR and WBR.
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Posted on 1/3/17 at 10:00 am to doubleb
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Unlike SBR, NBR has an excellent grid system of streets. Traffic isn't really an issue. The issues are poverty, crime, and pitiful schools.
I worked in NBR for a number of years and agree traffic is not an issue. My thoughts would be bringing in a bypass would increase volume to NBR and allow real estate developers to begin the process of rebuilding blighted areas around the new highway leading to a trickle down of investments eventually spreading through all of NBR.
We could also simply buy up a huge tract of NBR, demolish, and build a white utopia such as The Woodlands in Texas. That will really spur development of the Northside
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The problem with EBR traffic is a regional problem, and can only be abated by a comprehensive plan including the entire region (Livingston, Ascension, Iberville, EBR and WBR.
wholeheartedly agree and I have continuously posted on TD about the need for a regional transportation authority that can userp the NIMBYism so pervasive in the outlying parishes.
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