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Posted on 2/15/23 at 9:50 am to DaBeerz
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Did you know there is a fault line in Baton Rouge that crosses college drive as you go up past that little hill north of I-10 just past the auto shop
Holy crap
Posted on 2/15/23 at 9:55 am to Areddishfish
Some of the limited connections between major roads in SBR is due to the bayous and creeks that fans out like fingers. Ward Creek, Dawson Creek, Bayou Fountain, Bayou Duplantier, Claycut Bayou, etc. all discouraged connections because bridges are more expensive to build and maintain.
So you end up with all the traffic going anywhere across the city having to route via a few major arteries for the most part.
So you end up with all the traffic going anywhere across the city having to route via a few major arteries for the most part.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 9:59 am to DaBeerz
quote:is that the same supposed fault line at O’Neal and Old Hammond?
Did you know there is a fault line in Baton Rouge that crosses college drive as you go up past that little hill north of I-10 just past the auto shop
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:03 am to GreenRockTiger
Posted on 2/15/23 at 12:05 pm to el Gaucho
quote:Jim Snow Laws
Systematic racism against white people...James Crowe laws
Posted on 2/15/23 at 11:39 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
As I understand Highland Rd, it followed a path that was a road back to very early times. Kind of like the Natchez Trace.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 6:02 am to GreenRockTiger
That whole area around Exxon and redemptorist and Tony’s seafood was the nice part of town believe it or not
Posted on 2/16/23 at 7:40 am to MikeBRLA
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where they intersected was a traffic circle, which is where Circle Bowl bowling alley got its name.
Now that’s interesting
Posted on 2/16/23 at 7:41 am to LSUBoo
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Because that area was developed first... and used to be full of decent blue collar folk.
Correct, my pawpaw lived in Scotlandville in the 40s and early 50s before buying land and moving out to LP
Posted on 2/16/23 at 8:12 am to lepdagod
That's because most of BR streets started as cow paths in the field and unlike traffic engineers most cows knew how to walk a straight line to get to where they were going.
Posted on 2/16/23 at 2:52 pm to Toptigerfan86
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where they intersected was a traffic circle, which is where Circle Bowl bowling alley got its name.
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Now that’s interesting
I grew up in the Old Goodwood area in the 50's and 60's and I remember the "Florida circle". It was way bigger than the size of the new Round-a-about, but functioned the same. I looked at old pictures, and the "circle" was really shaped more like a football and was maybe 60 yards long. The picture shows about 20 big trees in the "circle".
I don't remember the construction of the Overpass which replaced the circle.
The Circle bowling ally was built in 1959 and closed just a year or so ago.
The Independence park [area between Goodwood Blvd and Florida Blvd] was an airport for small planes when I was growing up not far from there.
The Tara subdivision was just a big field area with a few cows and nice pond which had a few fish in it. Goodwood AVE stopped at the SE corner of the airport.
This post was edited on 2/16/23 at 3:16 pm
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