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re: any of you hate BR?
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:07 am to Tres7139
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:07 am to Tres7139
I find the only things I love about BR are LSU, friends/family and food.
Take that away and BR is a horrible city. More than half of the city is overrun with poverty and crime, traffic and roads blow, weather mostly sucks, public schools suck, trash everywhere....it's just not good.
Until the inner city and NBR folks start getting more education and better jobs, the public aspect will continue to suck.
Take that away and BR is a horrible city. More than half of the city is overrun with poverty and crime, traffic and roads blow, weather mostly sucks, public schools suck, trash everywhere....it's just not good.
Until the inner city and NBR folks start getting more education and better jobs, the public aspect will continue to suck.
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Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:07 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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My dad lives in Pollard Estates and I hate to go to his house after work. It's not unusual for the traffic to be backed up from College/Lee all the way to Pollard Parkway. We won't even discuss Essen Lane or College Drive.
Gotta go the back way
I have lived there for the past 3-4 years, and I do think the traffic has gotten worse at rush hour. I am typically coming from downtown, so there isnt much past College, but I do feel sorry for the poor souls sitting in traffic between College and Pennington.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:09 am to c on z
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and there is no bypass to get around it.
yea there is. just gotta hit the hood a little to get around it.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:14 am to More beer please
I know you'd love to make an excuse for the cluster frick that is BR traffic but you naaaa
When I started LSU in 2002 the traffic was she same bullshite it is today or that it was in 2007 when I lived there...
All the arteries were slammed pack with fricked up turning lanes. No traffic lights in the same schedule. The interstate was often grid locked, LOLEssen LOLane... college drive bwahahaha.... Nicholson and bright side hahaha
When I started LSU in 2002 the traffic was she same bullshite it is today or that it was in 2007 when I lived there...
All the arteries were slammed pack with fricked up turning lanes. No traffic lights in the same schedule. The interstate was often grid locked, LOLEssen LOLane... college drive bwahahaha.... Nicholson and bright side hahaha
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:17 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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I've had it take me over two hours to get from the old bridge to my house in Woodlawn during rush hour.
you are talking about extreme circumstances. I work in PA and have friends that live in Walker and as far as Hammond and it never takes them that long
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There's no reason why a city the size of Baton Rouge consistently has such bad traffic.
I agree but you can typically go anywhere in town in 30 min even during rush hour.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:18 am to SuperSaint
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When I started LSU
When school is out traffic is great
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:21 am to More beer please
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So yeah the city wasnt built to handle all of the people that started moving here.
No doubt this is part of the problem, but there has also been an endimic lack of foresight with respect to infrastructure coupled with gross overdevelopment over the last 20 or so years.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:22 am to Topwater Trout
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When school is out traffic is great
I wouldn't say great by any means. It's better. Still horrid.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:26 am to Topwater Trout
I hate that my post will be lost in a sea of negativity, but:
I'm not from Baton Rouge or even Louisiana, but I lived there for a time. I loved it and miss it more than I ever thought I would.
I lived in Beauregard Town which is a great area. Outside of I-10 traffic, I have no complaints.
Crime is not good, but it doesn't have much effect on the areas of town you would live in if you have a choice.
The nightlife scene isn't Atlanta, but between downtown, Mid-City, and LSU, there are enough bars to keep any drunk satisfied.
Food is what you would expect from South Louisiana.
LSU football season is an absolute blast.
Overall, I just found it to be a very comfortable place to live. I live in a place now that I thought would be a breath of fresh air after Louisiana, but if I could transfer my job to Baton Rouge and move back into my old place, I would without question.
I'm not from Baton Rouge or even Louisiana, but I lived there for a time. I loved it and miss it more than I ever thought I would.
I lived in Beauregard Town which is a great area. Outside of I-10 traffic, I have no complaints.
Crime is not good, but it doesn't have much effect on the areas of town you would live in if you have a choice.
The nightlife scene isn't Atlanta, but between downtown, Mid-City, and LSU, there are enough bars to keep any drunk satisfied.
Food is what you would expect from South Louisiana.
LSU football season is an absolute blast.
Overall, I just found it to be a very comfortable place to live. I live in a place now that I thought would be a breath of fresh air after Louisiana, but if I could transfer my job to Baton Rouge and move back into my old place, I would without question.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:27 am to Tres7139
I'll never "hate" BR because I love LSU so much, but it's pretty bad.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:30 am to Tres7139
I don't hate it per say, but I don't love it. I lived in H town for a little while, but the drive back to go to the games got tiring. I now live about a hour and a half away and it's much better, but can't wait to get out of LA all together since HD coverage on almost every game now.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:35 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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I've had it take me over two hours to get from the old bridge to my house in Woodlawn during rush hour.
I drive that route often, that's not "rush hour" that's and major accident. That drive in rush hour traffic is 45 minutes to an hour tops on the worst of normal traffic days with no real accidents.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:40 am to TigersSEC2010
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Exactly. She's the type who thinks NBR doesn't get its fair share of the tax dollars, despite the fact that they easily get back double what any SBR resident receives. She also doesn't believe it's their own fault NBR looks like a third world nation.
^^^^^ Bingo.
She'll use more of our tax dollars to buy bright new shinny things for the hood rats to destroy.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:50 am to Snipe
Make baton rouge great again and get rid of city bar downtown.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:52 am to lsu2006
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No doubt this is part of the problem, but there has also been an endimic lack of foresight with respect to infrastructure coupled with gross overdevelopment over the last 20 or so years.
Yeah but when the boom came no one expected that. frick the inner city had like 10k back in the late 1890s. At that same time Nola had about 250k.
By the time the industrial boom hit it was already too late for BR traffic.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:52 am to lsu2006
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I wouldn't say great by any means. It's better. Still horrid.
its a noticeable difference...especially in the morning
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:54 am to Tres7139
I love Baton Rouge.
I hate shitty people like you.
I like that you're leaving and I hope you never have to return.
Buh-bye.
I hate shitty people like you.
I like that you're leaving and I hope you never have to return.
Buh-bye.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:57 am to zacata88
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Outside of I-10 traffic, I have no complaints
i do think its embarrassing that the bridge is essentially one lane entering BR
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Crime is not good, but it doesn't have much effect on the areas of town you would live in if you have a choice.
I have lived in SBR all my life and have never had a problem.
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I just found it to be a very comfortable place to live.
this is how I feel. BR doesn't offer everything but if I want I can drive an hour to a city that offers a helluva lot of things to do.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 12:04 pm to Topwater Trout
as a child, youth and young adult, loved it.
Now, not so much but that is more about me than the city itself
Now, not so much but that is more about me than the city itself
Posted on 1/4/17 at 12:23 pm to Tres7139
After living in rural Gumpistan, I came to appreciate B Ara.
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