re: Government St road diet.... Barber Bros....... jus dam

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One of the stupidest ideas I’ve ever seen. Very glad I no longer own a business on government street.

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As usual the politicians and consultants force feed the engineers (that told them this ain't gonna work) a shite sandwich. Blame them.

This is a totally dumb idea that is going to destroy traffic. Creating bike lanes? Like there are so many fricking bikers in Baton Rouge around government street. Give me a fricking break.

I love how all these people who dont live in the city think that government street is a main east-west street for traffic in mid city. Even as a four lane road there are 4-5 different roads that are better to take. If you need to go east/west.

Sometimes it's fun to just listen to you Baton Rouge baws complain about traffic.

But serious question, since when in hell did bike riders need a path on both sides of the road? Is it that hard for those dumb fricks to cross the road? It's like a damn sidewalk, it only needs to go down one side in most places unless you are in a commercial section or something.

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If you needed a reason as to why Baton Rouge hasn’t made the jump from suburban sprawl/strip mall wasteland to nice mid sized American city the comments in this thread are a good indicator

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Yeah well bottom line is these dumb fricks haven't figured out what to do about the buses. They're currently "looking into" cut outs from private owners.

Who along Govt is going to give up precious parking space for a CATS bus stop?

LINK

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City trying to figure out how to deal with stopped buses on a two-lane Government Street
February 01, 2018 5:13 PM in News Source: WBRZ By: Trey Schmaltz Share:
BATON ROUGE – There are no designs on paper to allow buses to pull off of Government Street once the highway is trimmed from four lanes to one travel lane in each direction, though officials are hoping to fix an issue that could lead to annoying congestion and frustrated drivers.

CATS confirmed "the current plan, as we understand it, does not have planned bus pull-outs," however both bus company and city officials said Thursday, they hope to find ways to fix the potential problems.

"[The city is] looking at some areas working with CATS to see if we can acquire some pieces of property to construct bus pull-offs," Fred Raiford, with the city of Baton Rouge said. Warning, though, that "traffic could be impacted during certain times of the day."

CATS also added: "We have discussed this issue with City officials and DOTD on several occasions, expressing that a place for buses to safely pick up and drop off riders is of the utmost importance."

Work to eliminate a travel lane in each direction – cunningly dubbed a "road diet" by those backing the project – started this week.

Officials hope reducing the number of travel lanes would force commuters to parallel throughways such as North Boulevard or Florida Street. Local drivers would have a more laissez-faire drive and, the dream is, spur a revitalization of the city's Mid City community – hopefully to rival New Orleans' Magazine Street.

> CLICK HERE for project images/plans

In addition, authorities suspect fewer travel lanes will reduce crashes as drivers try to make left turns. Drivers would turn left from a shared turning lane, not the available left east/west lane currently traversing Government Street.

As construction got underway on the project, CATS announced Thursday that some Government Street routes were being temporarily canceled due to the work. CLICK HERE for route information.

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