re: Baton Rouge Traffic Engineers hard at work

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My favorite is the absolutely and completely unneeded new traffic light at Burbank and that subdivision a few hundred yards west from Traction. It's the dumbest fricking light in existence now.

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There are a lot of houses in that subdivision. My sister has lived back there for a couple of years. Trying to leave that neighborhood without that light was like a suicide mission. There were plenty of accidents as a result and there would've no doubt been fatal ones in the future.

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And what's even more stupid is it gives the turn arrows (left turn heading east, and u-turn heading west) regardless of if there is anybody waiting as well. God forbid we actually put a smart light there that changes when actually needed by traffic.

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This is the only B.S. part about it. It's maddening.

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and I may just start running it in the mornings when I get a red light and I'm the only car that I can see on any of the roads.

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I've already done this once.

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Trying to leave that neighborhood without that light was like a suicide mission.

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Maybe try to use one of the other 2 exits? Inconveniencing the thousands of drivers that go down Burbank for that neighborhood that has 2 other exits, is fricking absurd.

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Maybe try to use one of the other 2 exits? Inconveniencing the thousands of drivers that go down Burbank for that neighborhood.

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It's not about convenience, diptshit. It's about safety.

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that has 2 other exits, is fricking absurd

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What kind of banana world are you living in? That's the only exit for people in that neighborhood to hop onto Burbank westbound without going out the back of the neighborhood and detouring through Gardere to get to Burbank or taking Innovation to an out-of-the-way 1 lane highway in Nicholson where traffic is a joke. The only other option is to drive through the length of the neighborhood, if you live on the east side, to take the west side exit eastbound for half a mile down Burbank, and then U-turn.

The light is not THAT big of a nuisance. It's just another light at the end of the most crowded stretch of Burbank, then you get over 2 miles of no lights before you get close to LSU, where during the semester, traffic is backed up anyway.

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There are a lot of houses in that subdivision. My sister has lived back there for a couple of years. Trying to leave that neighborhood without that light was like a suicide mission. There were plenty of accidents as a result and there would've no doubt been fatal ones in the future.

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I drive past it at least once or twice a day since it has existed and have never once seen a wreck there. Or beyond that, never even seen more than one or two cars waiting to turn out of it.

They could have very easily kept it as-is and made a better u-turn spot a little ways down without having to put in the dumbest traffic light in town.

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That's the only exit for people in that neighborhood to hop onto Burbank westboun

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It’s the “only exit” yet you proceed to list the 2 other ways to exit the neighborhood. Sounds like it was just inconvenient to exit the other two ways.

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It's just another light at the end of the most crowded stretch of Burbank, then you get over 2 miles of no lights before you get close to LSU, where during the semester, traffic is backed up anyway.

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For now… That land they’re clearing out right now will want their own light too.

The light was malfunctioning Saturday and had traffic backed up almost to Gardere. Imagine that light, Starring & Gardere being out and the clusterfrick it will cause. Hell, I’m waiting for football season to see how far traffic will back up to let those 5 people out.

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They could have very easily kept it as-is and made a better u-turn spot a little ways down without having to put in the dumbest traffic light in town.

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My issue is that it is not timed with other lights going down Burbank in that area. All the other lights in that area are timed to be green before you get there.

However, today it looks like that was fixed.

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Speaking of bad traffic engineering... Who has set the timing for the light on Jefferson at Towne Center?

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Turning left from Old Hammond onto Jefferson Skips two or three cycles in the afternoons. It’s a total shite show that someone should be fired for.

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It’s the “only exit” yet you proceed to list the 2 other ways to exit the neighborhood. Sounds like it was just inconvenient to exit the other two ways.

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You're being disingenuous. That light is the most logical exit for that neighborhood. The light simply being there is not the issue. The sequencing is the issue. Fix that and no reasonable person will complain about it.

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For now… That land they’re clearing out right now will want their own light too.

The light was malfunctioning Saturday and had traffic backed up almost to Gardere. Imagine that light, Starring & Gardere being out and the clusterfrick it will cause. Hell, I’m waiting for football season to see how far traffic will back up to let those 5 people out.

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So then it becomes just another major thoroughfare in Baton Rouge with a lot of traffic flowing through. I don't see the use in complaining about that.

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I’ve never met people so determined to be miserable as I have in BR.

Look for the root cause of the misery.

I dislike intervention into issues that DIRECTLY and Negatively impact me.




It is a traffic sign that reflects law. I obey traffic signs, thus I express my dislike. Don’t get me started on my true opinion of Baton Rouge.

Yes they’re all over America, it appears you gladly assume the position of submittal, I don’t.

Southern University drop outs and nepotism seem to be the BR way.