re: Baton Rouge’s interstate system is unacceptable for a city of its size.

100% agree. But how do you fix it? It's easy to say "just fix it". It's difficult to take a map, draw a loop or an expansion (since you have to take away private land). And it's difficult to find the funding for it. Just now, they are moving forward with expanding I10 in BR and you have black citizens complaining because they are going to add to it in the black neighborhood and that's racist according to them. Then, you have experts saying a loop would have to go so far out, it would NOT be a quicker route around Baton Rouge, so nobody would take it anyway.

I agree, it should be funded and it should be fixed. But I'm realistic enough to understand what it takes.

I always wondered what a toll road from Grosse Tete area, down to White Castle, cross the river and connect to 10 near Sorrento would be like. It would take the New Orleans traffic out of BR, but not the I12 traffic. And would it be quicker?

Cities don’t build freeways. States do with federal help.

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This was solely a product of a mass population displacement event - Katrina. If you remember traffic problems started the day after

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This simply is not true. Baton Rouge had traffic problems long before 2005.

Wasn't the interstate the federal gov'ts method of crippling places they saw were uncooperative with racial matters or something? I seem to remember reading something like that like that. Just building a giant road through the middle of the city to destroy it or whatever.

Some Baws hitting on Woody today. Woody was from Baker, originally from Opelousas , and had no formal training in planning that I know of. True the state planned I-10/I-12 but the person who was responsible for its location was mayor Jack Christian. His plan was that if I-10 was located in the city then business opportunities would spring up along it. At that time (late 1950s) I-10 should have been located way south of BR near the parish line (out in the country). This would have allowed for future expansion without tearing down someones's "historic" neighborhoods.

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Kip holden tried to build a loop.

It was shot down by neighboring parishes and BR communities.

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He did. He knew a northern bypass would be the most reasonable path but people in Central blocked it, and people in Ascension parish were upset that it didn't help their local traffic/commute issues.

Baton Rouge’s issues start with I 10 an 110.
The 10 bridge is in a bad spot. Too close to the Intercoastal Canal on the West and on the edge of Downtown on the West.
Throw in the immediate junction with I 110 and the severe turn south and it’s a big engineering problem,

Then they felt the need for ramps at Louise/Washington, Dalrymple, Perkins, Acadian, College. That’s too many ramps in a small distance to streets that really aren’t major four lane, crops through streets. Wadington/Louise, Dalrymple, Perkins aren’t major streets where the interstate crosses. Why have do many Ramos for them?

Then you have ramps further east that didn’t serve major north/south arteries. Essen., and Bluebonnet both dead ended on the north end, Essen still does. On 12, Millerville dead ends on each end. Drusilla goes nowhere.

The 10/12 split itself is an engineering problem. It’s a long ways between two big east/west corridors (Airline and College) and the College corridor is substandard. The split acts as a major damn through the heart of the parish.

All of these issues are built in issues. They have been present since day one. They are very costly to overcome.

I was at LSU prior to Katrina and it was a nightmare then. You are wrong, sir.

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Also, I-12 should be named I-10 and then part of I-10 that goes through New Orleans should have been called I-12, or something other than I-10.

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Yeh that can be confusing if you don't know your way around once you are in New Orleans.

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That’s why you don’t live in BR baw

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Isn’t not living in BR part of the problem?