re: BR traffic today was an assraping. When will it be time?

The only traffic problem in Baton Rouge that might have a solution is the movement of through traffic on the I-10/I-12 corridor. It will be ridiculously expensive to build a bridge/bypass, toll road or whatever, but it could be done so that people who must pass through this bottleneck of a city could do so. The federal government should address the problem for the INTER-state traffic and leave the local problems for the city/state to address.

But the internal traffic problems of Baton Rouge can probably never be fixed due to geography, politics, prior poor planning, and the parish's political future.

North-south surface streets are beyond capacity with only a few that cross the interstate. Existing residential and commercial development on those streets make effective expansion physically, financially, and politically impossible. Undeveloped corridors for new north-south highways do not exist.

East-west surface streets are a little better, especially in the northern half of the parish, but that is not where the growth is. In the southern half of the parish, Perkins Road is being pushed to its limits, and Highland will never expand.

Our democrat governor and mayor have gone all out with the "every problem and every opportunity starts with a new tax" mantra. No matter how much they get, they'll be sure that it was less than they first proposed, so they can always point to selfish taxpayers as the reason for their own inevitable failures.