re: Does Louisiana get all of the reject traffic engineers?

Have you ever driven around in a city?

Drive around BR all the time.

I just don't use main streets or the interstate because there's no need.

Sheltered bubble?

For arguments sake about that comment I'll simply say, yes, of course I get out, often. I do encounter traffic but it's not a big deal. It can be frustrating, sure. My point was, live where you don't have to deal with it as much, don't let it stress you out to the point of having to reach out to a message board. To further my point, there's a reason traffic is so bad. The population flourishes because the economy here is relatively good for lots & lots of people. That will never change regardless of the bad infrastructure, money is money and living comfortably isn't a bad trade off for most. Houston is just as bad or worse, and I say that because the petrochemical industry there almost mirrors the one in BR.

Causeway Blvd interchange might've taken 15

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Living in North BR must be a dream. I lived basically everywhere around LSU, plus Nicholson Lakes, the garden district, and Southdowns. You get traffic anywhere you go. Hell, College Dr will sometimes have traffic at midnight

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My customer base is the Petrochemical industry, I make $175k+ per year, I live in close proximity to my work territory, traffic is a non issue for me. All of this right in the BR area. Move and/or change your profession if you don't like it. Life is what you make it & I'm happier than a pig in shite

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1. Nice brag. No one cares.
2. The BR traffic, esp east bound, is an embarrassment. Just Bc you aren't affected by it doesn't mean it's not a problem. My friend said it took her two hours today to go 25 miles. That's disgusting. And no effort whatsoever is being made to alleviate the problem.

No, our traffic woes are not due to shitty engineers nearly as much as they are due to:
"Cheap" government trying to cut corners
"Corrupt" government trying to cut corners to avoid destroying the property of connected benefactors and so they can pocket the savings via graft.
"Incompetent" government that refuses to plan for growth.
Really really unstable soil which causes construction to be more expensive and causes roads to break down more rapidly over time.

La gets the rejects of most people other than chefs and football players.

It's moslty a funding issue from what I can tell.
I do remember many bitching about on ramp lights when we finally got some of them. Other states had them 10 years before

If everyone wasn't a passive pussy racist running off to flood zones and just stayed close to where they worked.....traffic and Baton Rouge wouldn't be a problem

Do the designers of these clusterfricks get any blame in your mind? Seems like you're trying to stick the design faults on politicians. Do politicians set traffic lights and design intersections?