re: Good Riddance Baton Rouge

I can get from my driveway to mid city Baton Rouge in ~20 minutes. I can also get from driveway to mid city New Orleans in ~45 minutes.

And that's just going the flow of traffic, with normal traffic.

I'm failing to see where all the added stress is?

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I hope you don’t have to drive 42 regularly.

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Or Airline, or Hwy 44 or Hwy 935, or Gemany Road, or Black Bayou or Hwy 74 or Hwy 30 or............ anywhere

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I believe they call it Galvez or Lake depending on how far east you are.

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Lake here

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These numbers are 100% false even on the best of days. I have driven those stretches in every conceivable manner, at every conceivable speed, in every conceivable condition and time of day combination, and these numbers are not simultaneously plausible from any location in Ascension Parish.

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No they're not. I do too. I live off Hwy 73/74 and drive into Baton Rouge every single day. And I don't drive like a maniac. But if you thinking that I'm lying makes you feel better, have at it my man.

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Off 73, between I-10 and Airline

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So you moved away from Baton Rouge and all its negatives just to go to THE - WORST part of Prairieville for traffic? I hope you're working from home.

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Good Riddance Baton Rouge

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Ok...

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awaiting closing on new house in Prairieville

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Wait. Really?

So you’re leaving the metro and now just going to drive further to get into town. It’s not like you’re leaving for a better city with new/improved amenities.

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These numbers are 100% false even on the best of days.

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Not at all, at least to BR. It depends on when you travel.

I leave at 6a from Airline at Bayou Manchac and get to work near BRCC in 20 mins easily. Coming back around 4 it’s maybe 35 mins.

ETA: Airline to Florida route

The New Orleans part of his comment I find unlikely

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Bruh, it takes damn near 20 minutes just to get from Airline to I-10 on 73 during traffic times.

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Bruh, I don't live on that side. I live by the intersection of Hwy 74 and Hwy 73. On a bad day (wreck on the interstate, wreck on Hwy 73 it will take me 15/20 minutes to get to I-10). Those days are WORST CASE SCENARIOS, and are few and far between. Most days, I'm on I-10 heading towards Baton Rouge from my driveway in a few minutes. Pay attention to the commute times on the traffic reports in the morning and evening (12 minutes to downtown on average). All of these super exaggerated traffic times that y'all give to paint this horrible picture is just not accurate. ESPECIALLY SO after they added a third lane all the way to Hwy 73.

Now am I going to lie and say traffic is not an issue? No way. But it's not the picture you're trying to paint of it taking years off my life and my retirement . And it's certainly not any more added stess to my life than it is to BR residents, I can assure you. Y'all aren't immune to that traffic stress either.

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45 minutes down I-10 east will get you no further than MSY in Kenner in free-flowing traffic.

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bullshite. I don't know how to say any other way. bullshite. I will go to New Orleans at various times of the year, and will pay attention to that. I'm hitting the Spillway within 20 minutes or so. I can be PARKED within 45 mins to an hour tops, depending on traffic, in THE FRENCH QUARTER from my driveway. In fact, the last time I went to the French Quarter was fan fest for the National Championship, and was parked at right about 50 or some odd minutes from my driveway. I pointed that specific fact out to my wife about the convenience of the location of our home. That's going about 80 on the interstate, which is not at all unreasonable.

Again, my neighborhood is nearest the intersection of Hwy 74 and Hwy 73. Maybe you're going off times of when you lived in St. Amant.

I mean, I don't know how else to tell you I'm not lying?

Last 2 months, I have been leaving at 6am to head to NOLA from BR to a project. From garage to project, 80-90 minutes every time, 80 mph avg speed

I see traffic going in BR and looks the same leaving, so I am assuming leaving at 6am, all will be ok