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re: Instant simple fix that would improve BR traffic
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:38 pm to Brageous
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:38 pm to Brageous
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Instant simple fix that would improve BR traffic by BrageousThat's what I was getting at. Let Nicholson traffic going north go all at once and then let the traffic going south go all at once instead of both with cars turning left creating all sorts of back up.
It's too simple of a plan and too easy to implement.
Instead they are trying to do some massive deal, but the RR is blocking it.
The truth is something could have been done to help 30 years ago and they didn't need the RR's permission. They just don't care.
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:40 pm to Jim Rockford
Look at the picture posted in the thread again. The sign doesn't say what you posted at all. New Orleans and Hammond are on top of one another, not side by side.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:40 pm to Jim Rockford
The sign should say I-10 East and just say New Orleans. Later signs should indicate I-12 but not at that juncture.
Good call IMHO.
Good call IMHO.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:46 pm to doubleb
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The truth is something could have been done to help 30 years ago and they didn't need the RR's permission. They just don't care.
30 years ago that was all farmland.
You really think our short sighted "leaders" were troubled by that small intersection?
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:46 pm to doubleb
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The sign should say I-10 East and just say New Orleans. Later signs should indicate I-12 but not at that juncture. Good call IMHO.
I get what they doing there and I also foresee old lady drivers fricking it up.
Oh well.
Nobody pays attention to my simple fix of taxing/penalizing commuters working in the parish but living outside of it. That's instant and will most definitely help! Thanks for not paying attention to my idea guys.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:46 pm to doubleb
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The truth is something could have been done to help 30 years ago and they didn't need the RR's permission. They just don't care.
The government bodies around here have traditionally been reactive to traffic, not pro-active. The worst part is all it would take is someone in the state and someone in DC to expropriate on the grounds of public use and the NIMBY's would just have to take their checks and STFU (I know this from personal experience).
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:48 pm to magildachunks
1985 that wasn't farmland. And our leaders have left that intersection decay and have done little or nothing to help traffic in that area.
FACT
FACT
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:53 pm to doubleb
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1985 that wasn't farmland. And our leaders have left that intersection decay and have done little or nothing to help traffic in that area. FACT
Seconded. I went visit my grammy in the apartments behind the circle k on Brightside back then. The stores on the corner at lee and Nicholson were there as well as Mike Andersons I believe.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 3:56 pm to mikelbr
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Nobody pays attention to my simple fix of taxing/penalizing commuters working in the parish but living outside of it. That's instant and will most definitely help! Thanks for not paying attention to my idea guys.
Would help infinitely.
But nobody is going to carpool in Louisiana.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:33 pm to magildachunks
I'm so glad I don't have to deal with the shithole, that is BR.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:54 pm to mikelbr
I lived nearby and dealt with that intersection at least once a day for over 4 years. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside that it's still the same. How the hell do people expect the city and parish governments to build a loop or bypass when simple, "traffic engineer 101" problems like this persist? If I see shite like this in Houston I dial up 311 on my phone and more times than not, it gets resolved.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:58 pm to sneakytiger
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I lived nearby and dealt with that intersection at least once a day for over 4 years. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside that it's still the same. How the hell do people expect the city and parish governments to build a loop or bypass when simple, "traffic engineer 101" problems like this persist? If I see shite like this in Houston I dial up 311 on my phone and more times than not, it gets resolved.
We dial 1-800-excuses
Posted on 4/14/15 at 5:27 pm to doubleb
Idea #2038.4: Tell the dumb fricks that inhabit this festering shithole that they don't need to use the interstates to get around the city. Getting on at Sherwood and off at Airline, on at Essen and off at Siegen - those aren't the intended uses for the interstates.
That clears up 20% of the traffic.
That clears up 20% of the traffic.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:00 pm to Horsemeat
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Idea #2038.4: Tell the dumb fricks that inhabit this festering shithole that they don't need to use the interstates to get around the city. Getting on at Sherwood and off at Airline, on at Essen and off at Siegen - those aren't the intended uses for the interstates.
That clears up 20% of the traffic.
They have to use I-10 because all that traffic completely clogs Perkins, Highland, Nicholson, Airline, and Burbank. Do you not remember carpocalypse a few years ago and what removing I-10 as an artery did to this town?
As someone already said, the problem is that the surface streets can't support the people moving around town and the useless fricks that run this town and the NIMBYs make damned sure that nothing is ever done to fix it. Nobody's got the balls and the political capital to bulldoze several 1/8th mile wide stripes clear across town both E/W and N/S to handle the town's traffic and interconnect everything. If they would, maybe we'd actually be a city.
I hope the do-nothings and the NIMBYs all die of arse cancer.
EDIT: Actually, getting crushed to death under the treads of a bulldozer because they refused to leave their condemned houses and make way for progress would be better.
This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:04 pm to JumpingTheShark
I avoid traffic by actually living and working in Baton Rouge. 10 minute commute.
One time I drove to Denham for an appointment from Baton Rouge and there was NO TRAFFIC.
One time I drove to Denham for an appointment from Baton Rouge and there was NO TRAFFIC.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:08 pm to Jim Rockford
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Coming off the bridge EB at the 10-110 split, the sign points to the left lane for I-10, right lane for I-12. So everybody going to NOLA stays in the left lane and it backs up when the right lane is still moving. The actual 10-12 split is several miles further on. Change the sign to reflect that, and the bottleneck speeds up.
No the problem at that bottleneck is that 2 lanes of interstate traffic really narrows down to one because of that AWFUL exit location. Remove that exit and extend the right lane a ways, and congestion would be eased a lot.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:11 pm to Brageous
Green Light Project is planning to fix now.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:11 pm to steeltiger17
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remove the trash so we can build better infrastructure
What trash?
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:15 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 4/14/15 at 6:15 pm to Hulkklogan
This. The I-10, 110 interchange is a fricking joke. It's probably the only segment of I-10, or maybe any interstate for that matter, that was intentionally designed with one single through-lane.
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