re: Mandeville to Madisonville traffic is out of control these days

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All the ghetto trash in Hammond hasn’t woken up yet.

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could be
if having trash around (that I never see) is the trade off for not spending half my day in traffic, gimme the trash. Stay out of Walmart and dollar general and they may as well be invisible

those who know, know

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The traffic in West St. Tammany sucks arse.

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Nothing new. They've been bitching about traffic in the Mandeville/Madisonville area for almost 30 years. The politicians need to stop playing small-ball.

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Madisonville

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I don’t remember a traffic issue in Madisonville until after Katrina. Then again, I remember water skiing on the Tchefuncte and not worrying about some asshat knee-capping me with his boat. I guess I’m showing my age.

I think we can all agree that Slidell is the butthole of the eastern I-12 corridor.

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This should have been slowed years ago until infrastructure could catch up, but it is still WIDE OPEN.

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LADOTD summed up: the only way to get them to actually move on a major project is for it to be a few decades too late (yes, this goes the interstate as well LINK). See also: the Baton Rouge loop.

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I don’t remember a traffic issue in Madisonville until after Katrina.

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May 13, 1994

TOWN TO SEEK TRAFFIC STUDY - MADISONVILLE Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA) - May 13, 1994 | Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA) | MICHAEL S. ARNOLD St. Tammany bureau | Page B1

With traffic from new subdivisions north and west of town clogging its streets, Madisonville -population 650 - has decided to ask the state for solutions. Mayor Peter Gitz said at Wednesday'stown meeting that he will ask legislators to push for a Department of Transportation andDevelopment study of the town's traffic congestion. "Our traffic problem on Madisonville streets isvery high, and I don't know what we can do," Alderman Jean Pelloat said. "At the intersection of(Louisiana) 21 and 22 there's a horrible problem getting out in the morning." The problem likely willworsen as new developments add several hundred homes to the area and high school studentssouth of Interstate 12 switch from Covington High to Mandeville High in the fall of 1995. Most ofthe students presumably will travel through Madisonville on Louisiana 21 and 22 toward the schoolon West Causeway Approach. Gitz predicted jams around the Tchefuncte River bridge on Louisiana22, which opens every half hour when river traffic warrants. Dozens of drivers wait impatiently oneach side of the bridge when it opens during rush hours. "That bridge opening could makeeverybody late for (high) school," Gitz said. Aldermen said they feared 18-wheelers could run intothe ditches along Louisiana 21 near Madisonville Junior High. Warning signs posted in the middle ofthe road between 7-9 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. leave less room and force larger vehicles toward theshoulders. Another trouble spot is by the parish library at the corner of St. John and First streets."It's horrible," resident Dot Chatellier said. "Some child's going to get run over." Traffic throughtown is especially heavy on weekends, she said.

Mandeville, Madisonville and Covington area is a suburb of New Orleans. Hammond is Hammond...

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tigerpawl

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I stand corrected. I honestly still don’t remember it being a major issue (it obviously was, I just don’t recall it being that overwhelming). Just out of curiosity, do you remember which subdivisions were built in 1994?

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You can temporarily put a moratorium, but courts frown upon regs that inhibit "enjoyment of your property." This dates back to the founding of the Merica.

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I am pretty sure the founding fathers didn’t have “Section 8.”

I have seen the “Westbank,” and I predict that what we we see over there now is the future of West St. Tammany. Unfettered, “high density“ development will not end well imho.