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Baton Rouge’s interstate system is unacceptable for a city of its size.
Posted on 2/28/21 at 7:29 am
Posted on 2/28/21 at 7:29 am
Lake Charles has a loop, Shreveport has the 220 loop and southern bypasses and ample lanes, Alexandria has good lane and ramp design structure, and even Pineville, LA, has an expressway!
It makes me so frustrated that 10 miles of traffic going EB every Friday from Grosse Tette to the curve past the bridge has been somehow okay to last this long. The Washington St. exit EB needs to be blown up and they can just make that lane continue I will give credit for the I-10 portion from bluebonnet to prairieville for getting revamped, but the rest is just so ugly and rugged.
New Orleans has a lot of problems but they’ve done a much better job with their interstates
It makes me so frustrated that 10 miles of traffic going EB every Friday from Grosse Tette to the curve past the bridge has been somehow okay to last this long. The Washington St. exit EB needs to be blown up and they can just make that lane continue I will give credit for the I-10 portion from bluebonnet to prairieville for getting revamped, but the rest is just so ugly and rugged.
New Orleans has a lot of problems but they’ve done a much better job with their interstates
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Posted on 2/28/21 at 7:31 am to schwartzy
I'm glad someone finally had the guts to say it.
Posted on 2/28/21 at 7:33 am to schwartzy
That’s why you don’t live in BR baw
Posted on 2/28/21 at 7:33 am to schwartzy
Fresno, California has a metro population of 970,000 and has no interstate at all.
Posted on 2/28/21 at 7:34 am to schwartzy
Posted on 2/28/21 at 7:38 am to TigerGman
Moving to st.george today
Posted on 2/28/21 at 7:42 am to schwartzy
210 has been here 40 years. What would loop construction even look like in BR today? I can’t imagine. I’ve always felt BR could do itself a huge favor with some better placed/constructed on/off-ramps where I encounter bottlenecks.
Posted on 2/28/21 at 7:53 am to AmosMosesAndTwins
a loop in BR would be more like 610 or Beltway 8 than 210, b/c it will have to take you FAR away from the i10 path on BR at this point
BR's problem is that they built their road system in increments with only the immediate area a concern. major roads simply do not connect in BR and it forces people to use the interstate for intracity trips. i've never seen a city or town so obsessed with planned limitations on access where huge neighborhoods have 1-2 ways in/out
BR is bottleneck city
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I’ve always felt BR could do itself a huge favor with some better placed/constructed on/off-ramps where I encounter bottlenecks.
BR's problem is that they built their road system in increments with only the immediate area a concern. major roads simply do not connect in BR and it forces people to use the interstate for intracity trips. i've never seen a city or town so obsessed with planned limitations on access where huge neighborhoods have 1-2 ways in/out
BR is bottleneck city
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:03 am to schwartzy
Hell, even natchitoches has a loop
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:05 am to SlowFlowPro
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a loop in BR would be more like 610 or Beltway 8 than 210, b/c it will have to take you FAR away from the i10 path on BR at this point
That is what old loop proposals from 10-12 years ago were going to do anyway.
This post was edited on 2/28/21 at 8:07 am
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:06 am to schwartzy
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The Washington St. exit EB needs to be blown up and they can just make that lane continue
Screw that! That’s how you pass all the traffic!
We have the best 1 lane interstate in the country.
This post was edited on 2/28/21 at 8:07 am
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:07 am to schwartzy
If you’re old enough to member. The interstate was more than adequate 20 years ago. It was a dream to drive on 30 years ago.
This was solely a product of a mass population displacement event - Katrina. If you remember traffic problems started the day after and never returned to normal levels.
They had and still have no solutions for this because the city wasn’t designed for such a rapid growth.
New Orleaneans are to blame for your woes
This was solely a product of a mass population displacement event - Katrina. If you remember traffic problems started the day after and never returned to normal levels.
They had and still have no solutions for this because the city wasn’t designed for such a rapid growth.
New Orleaneans are to blame for your woes
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:07 am to schwartzy
Now that you brought it to me attention, I think I have to agree with you
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:08 am to schwartzy
Best thing would be for some other city in Louisiana to start building a better system and take over. Ain’t gonna be St George as they’re too close to the problem.
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:11 am to SlowFlowPro
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a loop in BR would be more like 610 or Beltway 8 than 210, b/c it will have to take you FAR away from the i10 path on BR at this point
It should really be a bypass type loop that lets you just totally avoid the city limits, but the more I think about it, if they would finish i49, that would basically make a 610 out of i10 but on a much bigger scale, maybe it would cut the New Orleans and beyond bound traffic in half.
Edit: sorry the Nola 610 I mean, by making a giant triangle.
This post was edited on 2/28/21 at 8:12 am
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:12 am to schwartzy
Everyone always complains about Washington Street exit. I agree people on 110 should not be able to take it anymore since there is an exit from 110 now. The problem is 10 going to 1 lane. If 10 stays 2 lanes having the Washington Street exit there is immaterial. If it's closed now how would that help traffic? We just need a barrier so drivers on 110 cant use it.
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:12 am to schwartzy
A friend enlightened me on this subject last week. BR had a mayor, Woody Dumas, in the 60s and 70s who ran and won on what was essentially an anti-growth platform. He wanted BR to remain as small town as possible and the people seemingly agreed.
So BR had essentially a 15-20 year stretch where the rest of the country was planning and growing dramatically and BR embraced an anti growth platform. That is exactly what you have to thank for the interstate and roadway system in BR being such dogshit.
So BR had essentially a 15-20 year stretch where the rest of the country was planning and growing dramatically and BR embraced an anti growth platform. That is exactly what you have to thank for the interstate and roadway system in BR being such dogshit.
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:14 am to schwartzy
Hot take.
Posted on 2/28/21 at 8:16 am to schwartzy
Well look who those people keep voting in for mayor and big gravy and his biscuit crew only race bait so real actual issues go unheard
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