re: Sayonara St. George...

So you choose to buy a home where nobody wants to live because of traffic? Smooth move exlax. Good luck when you go to sell it.

If you actually live in BR, traffic is a real thing. There is absolutely no way around it. You can't just cut over to another street and everything is peachy keen. Other big cities at least FLOW. BR does no such thing

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Perhaps where he works is not a great area and he doesn't want to have his family live there?

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I don't live near where I work. But, when we bought our house, we decided that it would be somewhere where we didn't have to use the interstate to get to work.

My point is that so many people insist on living in these disconnected, sprawling subdivisions, far from where they work, where they have to rely on heavily-congested roads to get where they're going everyday, and then have the nerve to bitch about traffic. It is that very pattern of migration that is at the root of our traffic problems.

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You wanna go across town at 4 on a Friday in baton frickin rouge, it'll take at least an hour.

There's no disputing that. At least an hour to an hour and a half.

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Nope. I work downtown and live near the Amite River within the proposed SG boundary (12 mi each way). If I leave work at 4, commute time is 30 mins max. Now, if I leave at 5 or 5:30 the commute is more like 45 mins. I avoid that by leaving the office before 4:30 or after 6...problem solved. I grew up in San Francisco...now that is commuter hell.

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So you choose to buy a home where nobody wants to live because of traffic?

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Where nobody wants to live? That's a pretty retarded (and incorrect) assumption.

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You can't just cut over to another street and everything is peachy keen.

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No, but you don't have to creep down major arteries, either.

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If I leave work at 4, commute time is 30 mins max. Now, if I leave at 5 or 5:30 the commute is more like 45 mins

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if it is 30mins at 4 it would be over an hour at 5. when i lived in ascension the trave time doubled if i left at 5 vs 445.

What I'm failing to see is how the utopia of StG is going to alleviate BR's traffic problems.

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So your opinion is only SG residents shop at the Mall of Louisiana thereby paying all of the sales taxes collected there?

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No one who's visited that mall in recent years could possibly have that opinion.

And the multi-faceted campaign to kill SG will certainly push MOLA towards decline while boosting development and commerce in Ascension and Livingston. It's not a new or unique phenomenon.

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Nope. I exit at Airline to Jefferson/Tiger Bend. It is the AP commuters who have the commuting challenges. Sprawl has consequences.

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I used to do that drive and it is way longer than 45 minutes at 5.

Hell, getting somewhere off corporate at that time might take 45 minutes

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Come on Russian. You cant seriously believe this. 

11th worst in the nation

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I'd have to go dig, but several years ago it ranked number 1 in the nation for the worst traffic.

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Where nobody wants to live? That's a pretty retarded (and incorrect) assumption

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No houses = no traffic. Simple as that

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No, but you don't have to creep down major arteries, either

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You absolutely cannot go to a side street to pass up traffic. Kenilworth is about the only street around with no ttraffic, and even then, you're just going from traffic on Perkins to traffic on Highland