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re: Baton Rouge is trying to improve Lee Drive - good luck to them!
Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:27 pm to SantaFe
Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:27 pm to SantaFe
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Do this and it will destroy another great neighborhood of Baton Rouge. It will literally phucking destroy this neighborhood.
Everyone who lives there should fight this with torch fire.
Best solution is to close Lee Dr. and have it only open to those people that live on that street. Have a gate card system, I am serious.
The OT: Baton Rouge traffic is horrible and needs to be fixed
Also the OT: this will ruin the community!
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Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:28 pm to mikelbr
This will not be built because of the massive costs associated with wetlands mitigation. For every acre you destroy, you have to mitigate 5 acres or more. Unless you already own a bunch of marginal wetlands which you can reasonably mitigate yourself by planting trees and insuring enough of them survive to maturity, you have to pay buku money to a wetlands mitigation bank to do it for you.
Plus, any project requiring wetlands mitigation means an environmental impact study, which means that every enviro wacko from the canuing baws to the psycho commies will turn out to oppose it. That means the project likely would take 20 years to get approved even if there was money for it to be built.
I hate how this country builds and maintains infrastructure. It's a wonder how anything is ever built in America at all!
Plus, any project requiring wetlands mitigation means an environmental impact study, which means that every enviro wacko from the canuing baws to the psycho commies will turn out to oppose it. That means the project likely would take 20 years to get approved even if there was money for it to be built.
I hate how this country builds and maintains infrastructure. It's a wonder how anything is ever built in America at all!
Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:30 pm to The Pirate King
Typical government trick on eminent domain is to announce they are going to consider it, which depresses the market value of the property in question because no one wants to buy something the government is about to pay peanuts for.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:32 pm to goofball
Adding a middle lane is doable. Very minimal would have to be done to actual houses. Adding a bike lane and a sidewalk I dont think is possible. Sidewalks would be at peoples front doors.
The construction during this will be a disaster
The construction during this will be a disaster
Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:36 pm to goofball
They will probably frick it up like they did Government street. They added a turning lane but every spot you want to turn left they put in a damn flower bed so you can't. The road is too narrow to comfortably take u turns when you can't turn left. You have to have one of the other, ability to turn left or easy u turns. Just thinking about this pisses me off. We should have all private roads, frick the government.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:37 pm to goofball
They need to have an elevated Lee Drive exit that goes over college drive and brings you down to near the 4 way stop at highland. Clear some of that shite out for people trying to get to the interstate from over there and clear College at the same time.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:40 pm to metallica81788
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That second plan with the median and no turning lane is idiotic - does nothing to solve the problem of when someone needs to make a left turn and backs everything up.
It's labeled as at a bridge. You can't make a turn directly off of a bridge so you don't need a middle turn lane.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:46 pm to junkfunky
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You can't make a turn directly off of a bridge
Not with that attitude
Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:46 pm to PureBlood
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What cracks me up is that they want to make Lee Dr faster so you can go sit in gridlock on College because SWB and her ilk are too fricking retarded to figure out how to synchronize the lights.
Yep. Lee Drive isn't perfect, but it isn't anywhere near as bad as College Drive the parking lot. I haven't driven on College in probably weeks, and I live off Lee
It's that bad to me.Posted on 2/15/22 at 12:47 pm to kingbob
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For every acre you destroy, you have to mitigate 5 acres or more
Unless this has changed very recently, the ratio is 1:2
Posted on 2/15/22 at 1:10 pm to goofball
Lee Drive needs a road diet. Also in desperate need of bike lanes. I used to ride it and highland to LSU and it was dangerous 15 years ago.
Highland also needs bike lanes too. Who ever put together those super tight right of ways back in the day was an idiot.
Highland also needs bike lanes too. Who ever put together those super tight right of ways back in the day was an idiot.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 1:13 pm to MojoGuyPan
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Who ever put together those super tight right of ways back in the day was an idiot.
i would imagine the road was built when there wasnt much of anything around there
Posted on 2/15/22 at 1:27 pm to goofball
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Lee Drive needs a road diet. Also in desperate need of bike lanes. I used to ride it and highland to LSU and it was dangerous 15 years ago.
Highland also needs bike lanes too. Who ever put together those super tight right of ways back in the day was an idiot.
Highland is designated as Historic Road and cannot be modified.
Highland was originally a wagon road and that is why it is narrow.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 1:31 pm to goofball
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Why would this destroy the neighborhood?
Examine Cal Rd. and what Bluebonnet did to that once quite neighborhood.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 1:47 pm to SantaFe
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Examine Cal Rd. and what Bluebonnet did to that once quite neighborhood.
Looks nice to me.
Although the hundreds of new homes on the far end of it probably made that road a bit busier than it used to be.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 2:34 pm to goofball
Just 3 lane it and forget the sidewalks. The houses are too close to the road.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 3:03 pm to SantaFe
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Highland is designated as Historic Road and cannot be modified.
that might be the dumbest shite ive ever heard in my life
Posted on 2/15/22 at 4:25 pm to SantaFe
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Highland is designated as Historic Road and cannot be modified.
I am actually ok with this. Highland is probably the most scenic road to drive in BR.
The problem for BR has less to do with capacity of surface streets and more to do with design and layout. There are far too few grided streets on the south side of town and that is a major cause of the delays. Too many neighborhoods with no thru traffic and dead end streets.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 4:31 pm to Crucial Taunt
I lay a lot of this on really bad foresight by the city parish, especially as entities like OLOL moved out of the city limits to places like Essen.
That area was the country before OLOL opened. About the only thing out there was NBC33.
That area was the country before OLOL opened. About the only thing out there was NBC33.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 4:35 pm to goofball
Good luck, they've been working on Sullivan Rd. in Central it feels like as long as that's been it's own city.
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