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re: Essen lane
Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:00 am to BLIZZAKE7
Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:00 am to BLIZZAKE7
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the decision to demolish and replace jefferson highway during the interstate construction is mind boggling to me
It's not supposed to be done until the middle or late 2025 too so get used to it
This post was edited on 3/15/24 at 11:09 am
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Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:03 am to LemmyLives
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Half of my commute to NBR was spent trying to get to I-10 from 2 miles away from Essen. But yeah, EBR, BTR, and Louisiana are good at fixing things.
Live off Staring and Waze always sends me down Perkins to I-10 instead of trying to get on I-10 at Essen.
What's insane is that sometimes you can catch every light without even having to slow down. Lights are timed very well... at 5AM.
This post was edited on 3/15/24 at 11:08 am
Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:04 am to TigerFan0225
It is the non stop development by the city parish on this stretch, and other areas in this parish. They think they can build with little connectivity between businesses (aside from the one road) and add signals constantly. They have never met a developer they could not say yes to.
Baton Rouge development is a cluster. They build locked parking lots that have no access to the next parking lot accept for the road.
A good example is the area in front of Flander's Drive. If you are at Walgreens and want to go to Wendys you have to pull out on Essen to drive 100 feet to pull back in. This alone adds ridiculous traffic to Essen. They also never build back streets with access to businesses. There should be access to all the businesses on Essen through a drive way from Flanders Drives.
On the NB side of Essen there is no back street at all. Mancuso is the closest thing and it ahs access to nothing on Essen, so you have to go down Summa and get on Essen to go 100 feet and try to cross over 4 lanes to get coffee.
Everyone has to use Essen to go 100 feet everywhere and this bogs down the traffic trying to get to the Interstate. There are part of Coursey and Siegen where you have this interconnectivity but they are small.
Baton Rouge development is a cluster. They build locked parking lots that have no access to the next parking lot accept for the road.
A good example is the area in front of Flander's Drive. If you are at Walgreens and want to go to Wendys you have to pull out on Essen to drive 100 feet to pull back in. This alone adds ridiculous traffic to Essen. They also never build back streets with access to businesses. There should be access to all the businesses on Essen through a drive way from Flanders Drives.
On the NB side of Essen there is no back street at all. Mancuso is the closest thing and it ahs access to nothing on Essen, so you have to go down Summa and get on Essen to go 100 feet and try to cross over 4 lanes to get coffee.
Everyone has to use Essen to go 100 feet everywhere and this bogs down the traffic trying to get to the Interstate. There are part of Coursey and Siegen where you have this interconnectivity but they are small.
This post was edited on 3/15/24 at 11:06 am
Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:46 am to winkchance
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Baton Rouge development is a cluster. They build locked parking lots that have no access to the next parking lot accept for the road.
Man this is such a good point and it’s a problem all over the fricking city.
The little strip mall with the Verizon store on Siegen is another example. The parking lot is inexplicably not connected to the streets behind it (which connect to Target, Chik Fil-A, etc.) despite butting up right next to each other. So if you’re going south on Siegen and need to go to the Verizon store you can either A) try to make a left turn across 3 lanes of Siegen traffic with no signal, B) drive down to the other side of I-10 and make a U-turn somewhere, or C) turn left at the red light, park on the Target side, and walk around the building.
There is a lot of shite on Siegen that is actually connected but Essen is worse as you said.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:47 am to TigerFan0225
Hmm, i always hated essen, rarely used it, always traffic around perkins and the hospital.
Posted on 3/15/24 at 12:06 pm to dgnx6
It’s no coincidence that Siegen, Bluebonnet, and Essen are all clusterfricks around I-10. Basically all of south Baton Rouge was developed around the interstate. I-10 became the main thoroughfare for people commuting to work which caused even more development and now we’ve reached a critical mass where everybody is trying to get to the same place and there’s no amount of lane expansion that can make it reasonable.
Perkins from College to Highland/I-10 actually isn’t bad for a surface street with a fair number of lights. Burbank from Lee to Highland (and even Siegen from Highland to Perkins) isn’t bad at all. The city has actually built out some capacity on surface streets in the southern part of town over the past couple of decades. But there’s no way to unring the bell and move half of the Siegen/Essen/Bluebonnet commercial development further south. Especially not when so much of that land has already filled up with residential development.
Some of the newer projects will help around Siegen - particularly the Pecue overpass and connecting Rieger road all the way, as it will give people an alternative route. They really need to connect the frontages between Siegen/Bluebonnet all the way to Essen IMO but not sure if that’s actually feasible.
Perkins from College to Highland/I-10 actually isn’t bad for a surface street with a fair number of lights. Burbank from Lee to Highland (and even Siegen from Highland to Perkins) isn’t bad at all. The city has actually built out some capacity on surface streets in the southern part of town over the past couple of decades. But there’s no way to unring the bell and move half of the Siegen/Essen/Bluebonnet commercial development further south. Especially not when so much of that land has already filled up with residential development.
Some of the newer projects will help around Siegen - particularly the Pecue overpass and connecting Rieger road all the way, as it will give people an alternative route. They really need to connect the frontages between Siegen/Bluebonnet all the way to Essen IMO but not sure if that’s actually feasible.
This post was edited on 3/15/24 at 12:08 pm
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