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.

Estimate $1,200,000.00 but we don’t have money for useful projects.

I don’t want to hear 80/20 or 90/10 Federal funding, they’re 40 trillion down.

I just can’t wait for elevated section of 10/12 construction begins. The short sided crap being done will be on display. Look carefully as you’re parked in traffic.

Clowns all of em!

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No cops will stop you.

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The last traffic ticket I got was in 2006 for a right on red in Hammond at Linden onto Thomas. Lamest ticket ever - there was absolutely nobody coming and a lardass Hammond cop came flying from four blocks away like I was robbing a bank.

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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.