re: Baton Rouge traffic losing its collective mind

I-10 West is now stopped too, I guess so they can try and put the fire out.

I can't imagine there being a stretch of road that has more car fires than that area of I-10 near/on the bridge.

cell phones, myriad distractions, etc

Looks like Spencer Callahan's new office/helipad will have a prime ad spot for the DOTD cameras.

HOLY shite - I do not believe it!

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Perkins

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Essen

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The Perkins/Essen intersection at 5pm is so horrible. What the hell is the deal with people going through a light when traffic is stopped so they'll be sitting in the middle of the intersection? Every day this happens at this intersection, and people can't cross when they green light purely because there are others sitting in the intersection blocking them.

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The interstate only having one lane only exists in Baton Rouge.

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If that was the only problem, it wouldn't be that bad. The problem is you have a major interstate heavily traveled. Add 2 on ramps converging (each having 2 lanes of traffic of their own, la 1 from plaq, and from port allen) in one spot at the beginning of the bridge (heading eastbound). So now you have 3 areas of traffic all slammed together at the base of a bridge on a major interstate.
Now, to make it even more fricktastic, let's jam all of that traffic into 1 lane as you are coming out of a decline.
And if that isn't fun enough for you, we'll throw in another twist and merge 3 lanes of traffic from I-110 and 1 lane of traffic that was previously 3 lanes from the bridge, all into 3 lanes of traffic. And just to frick with you, we'll throw in an exit ramp to Washington street on the right hand side just to tempt the idiots to cross all lanes of traffic to get to.

and there's more... now you have 3-4 lanes of interstate traffic going directly through the middle of baton rouge and no service roads, only on ramps and off ramps. You have majority of the people on the road live outside of BR city limits to escape the shitty schools, crime, and traffic (irony). You again, have no service roads to I-12, and heavy 18 wheeler traffic attempting to bypass New Orleans heading Eastbound. On I10, you have multiple people living in prairieville and gonzales again, with no service roads except to the mall, and each have roughly 1500 feet of exit lane length, compacting traffic even more, and the closest exit to P'Ville is at highland road, where the majority of P'ville residents live at least 10-15 miles further than that exit.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

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I just don't understand how that bridge leads to so much shite going down. It's a straight stretch

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idiots.

I think about 75% of the issues of BR bridge woudn't exist if 18 wheelers didn't exist. I don't understand how a freight driver can make it over the bridge in Lake Charles that is at a near steep 45 degree angle, but have trouble going up a soft gradual 15-20 degree incline in BR. They should do mass executions for the heads of freight companies if their trucks break down at the bridge.

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Make a law requiring all 18-wheelers to take the North Bridge (East and West bound).

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I rest my case.