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re: Its a good thing we have that new bridge in St. Francisville...
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:42 am to LSUTigerFan247
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:42 am to LSUTigerFan247
I don't miss it. Not...One....Bit....
Except my LSU days, those 10 years I'd relive.
Except my LSU days, those 10 years I'd relive.
This post was edited on 8/30/18 at 7:43 am
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Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:52 am to LSUTigerFan247
Oh good. Getting an early start on the. Baton Rouge / NOLA / LA sucks and is trashy thread today. Fresh take OP.
Why do you people populate this state and board? MOVE THE frick AWAY AND GET OFF OF TD IF YOU HATE THIS PLACE SO MUCH.
Why do you people populate this state and board? MOVE THE frick AWAY AND GET OFF OF TD IF YOU HATE THIS PLACE SO MUCH.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:52 am to SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:54 am to Ace Midnight
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Honestly, what can be done about Baton Rouge? Build another bridge? Where?
There are plenty of places to build a bridge actually. In fact, multiple Parishes have been fighting over it. White Castle and Sunshine are two proposed places. Bridges places outside of BR would funnel traffic away from the city. It would do wonders for the current traffic nightmare.
This is an issue where people only care about what is good for them though. Anything else is perceived as stupid.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:54 am to LSUTigerFan247
Building a bridge elsewhere is not the reason Baton Rouge traffic remains fricked. They don't even know what they can do to fix it. Are we supposed to paralyze infrastructure everywhere else across the state while they conduct more studies that likewise conclude that they don't know how to fix it?
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:54 am to SlowFlowPro
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Nola and BR get a disproportionately high amount of public money
For transportation infrastructure spending, NOLA eats the rest of the state’s lunch. Until recently, it was like Baton Rouge or Lafayette don’t exist to the state legislature.
This post was edited on 8/30/18 at 7:55 am
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:55 am to jbgleason
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Why do you people populate this state and board? MOVE THE frick AWAY AND GET OFF OF TD IF YOU HATE THIS PLACE SO MUCH.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:55 am to tigersbh
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Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:56 am to cahoots
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. The state will not improve unless those places do.
then we won't improve
and yeah they may have half the population, but they probably account for 65-70% of all public spending
the government employees and public benefits alone severely skew those numbers, let alone things like the $45M children's museum in Nola that isn't necessary or needed
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:57 am to SlowFlowPro
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e the $45M children's museum in Nola that isn't necessary or needed
Still baffles me that a local New Orleans amenity was largely covered by taxpayers throughout the state when Shreveport, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge used local tax dollars and donations to build their children’s museums.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:58 am to SlowFlowPro
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the $45M children's museum in Nola that isn't necessary or needed
And where are they going to send their under privilege chirren? AMC? Top Golf?
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:58 am to member12
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For transportation infrastructure spending, NOLA eats the rest of the state’s lunch. Until recently, it was like Baton Rouge or Lafayette don’t exist to the state legislature.
oh yeah it's insane
i did almost make a brag thread yesterday morning b/c there was a really bad wreck on i10W out here that was delaying traffic 1-1.5 hours. so what does SFP do (i had to go west to Sulphur)? hops on the 210 loop and adds maybe 5 minutes to his trip (suck on that BR)
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:59 am to member12
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Still baffles me that a local New Orleans amenity was largely covered by taxpayers throughout the state when Shreveport, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge used local tax dollars and donations to build their children’s museums.
oh there was a huge thread on this board when this story dropped and i am pretty sure cahoots was arguing for the spending on the museum (Why i made the reference
)Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:59 am to ChewyDante
Not only is that merging into one lane the problem, but the sharp arse curve is too.
I travel the bridge 4-5 days per week, and there are times that traffic gets bottlenecked there going westbound. And there are two lanes going westbound. What happens, is people slow way the frick down on that sharp curve (mainly big trucks carrying cargo), and it creates a chain reaction of traffic. As soon as you get over the bridge, traffic is flowing like shite through a goose. I see this all the time, thinking there's an accident that's causing the wreck.
A bridge placed where the Plaquemine Ferry is would divert all those 18 wheelers to bypass Baton Rouge to keep going east on I-10 towards New Orleans. Of course, would need to 4 lane Hwy 30 to the interstate as well.
I travel the bridge 4-5 days per week, and there are times that traffic gets bottlenecked there going westbound. And there are two lanes going westbound. What happens, is people slow way the frick down on that sharp curve (mainly big trucks carrying cargo), and it creates a chain reaction of traffic. As soon as you get over the bridge, traffic is flowing like shite through a goose. I see this all the time, thinking there's an accident that's causing the wreck.
A bridge placed where the Plaquemine Ferry is would divert all those 18 wheelers to bypass Baton Rouge to keep going east on I-10 towards New Orleans. Of course, would need to 4 lane Hwy 30 to the interstate as well.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:00 am to LSUTigerFan247
Don't worry the state is getting it's money back one speeding ticket at a time on that bridge. BTW I am glad it is there. 
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:01 am to SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:03 am to LSUTigerFan247
BR has its own traffic problems but that bridge to nowhere was an idiotic waste of money that benefits relatively no one.
Does make the camp on False River an easier drive from Natchez though.
Does make the camp on False River an easier drive from Natchez though.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:04 am to SlowFlowPro
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cahoots was arguing for the spending on the museum
Knock Knock in Baton Rouge was funded by BREC and a series of private donations.
The taxpayers in Baton Rouge and in the rest of the state then had to pay to build a new facility for the Children’s Museum in New Orleans on top of that.
It’s astounding how much of the state’s tax dollars New Orleans still consumes while neither being the largest parish in the state nor being the economic driver the state needs it to be for the last 35+ years.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:08 am to cahoots
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Dude, the NOLA and BR metros account for almost half of the state's population. The state will not improve unless those places do. There is no other way.
New Orleans is like the state’s crack head daughter. She will always need hand outs from the rest of the state, and everyone has to sit there and watch her fade away knowing that she’ll never amount to anything again.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:09 am to dewster
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New Orleans is like the state’s crack head daughter. She will always need hand outs from the rest of the state, and everyone has to sit there and watch her fade away knowing that she’ll never amount to anything again.
spicy, hot, true, and depressing take
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