I thought these new Baton Rouge taxes were supposed to synchronize

They have to study it first. Can't just go out and change them all willy nilly.

This is the tax most of the people on this board supported because “our streets need it.”

I knew it would be wasted.

Well, traffic and red lights were screwed up 30 years ago and some of the same people who were in charge then are still in charge now.

I didn’t vote for it but I’m pissed that they aren’t even implementing what they said they were when they said they would.

This just reminds me of the work going on at Lee and Nicholson that is going on a year now. It was supposed to be completed last year.

DPW directors responsible should be fired, contracts should have penalty provisions when not timely completed .

I though kip raised a tax for this when he was in office. I remember him talking about it.

You dumbasses voted for it

I pimp slapped the NO button

A shocking revelation.

laying several miles of cable isn't going to get done overnight... It's only been 8 months since the tax was passed. While yes, this is probably the easiest project in MoveBR, it still takes a good bit of planning and coordination. I'm no SWB fan, but let's try to be somewhat realistic here..

Actually the big thing was that this could be done very quickly. I’m being realistic about what was told to me by our mayor who pushed for this tax.

By the way, I see th e rapid transit thing is going to happen now. I’ve never quite understood its purpose. Are they trying to bus the criminal element from the plank road corridor down to LSU for some particular reason? The only plausible reason is for the employees that live there but even that isn’t a significant amount from plank road. They are from baker and Zachary not Plank.

Your tax dollars went into effect on April 1st
The Advocate from March 30th

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But it could be fall before drivers start to see signs of their tax money at work actually providing traffic relief.

The city-parish first has to hire program managers to prioritize the more than 70 projects outlined in the roads improvement plan. And that likely won't occur until the summer, said Kelvin Hill, Broome's assistant chief administrative officer overseeing the city-parish public works departments.

Although that schedule could feel like forever to drivers frustrated by the region's traffic woes, Hill says the city-parish has an aggressive timeline to get the projects moving forward. 

"This is moving extremely fast," Hill said. "If you look at other big cities that have done big projects like this, it usually takes them a year or so to get organized." 

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Do y'all not keep up with this stuff? Just complain without looking anything up first?

Tax didn't take effect until April 1st. Did you expect them to just press a button that synchronized all the lights? I know we all like to bitch about studies, but you 100% want studies for signal synchronization. Every traffic signal has an impact on the traffic load at other signals. How many traffic signals are in EBR? Idk, but you don't want a half assed job implementing it... While it's not an automatic fix, it will be the first thing you notice and the first thing complete, which is exactly what was promised. Mainly because it doesn't require any sort of construction or traffic diverting.

ETA: I can understand complaining about the how the PM decision took forever. They say it's not taking long in comparison, but I don't follow other cities infrastructure taxes. Just seems like they could have had that stuff all figured out prior to 4/1/19. Either way I don't think this stuff would be done by now.

ETA2: They have started clearing land across from Kenilworth @ Perkins. Could be work on the Hennesy/Perkins connector (w/ railroad underpass). Don't know what else it would be.