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Posted on 3/27/19 at 5:26 pm to kingbob
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Those people didn’t just abandon BR on a whim. The school situation all but forced them out financially.
We did the same thing as Motorboat and moved reasonably close to work. We also only have one kid in school and can fairly easily swing private school tuition. That wouldn't be an option if we had 3 kids. The burbs are generally better places for families.
BR and the surrounding areas just never built the infrastructure to handle the volume of people that have moved to them in the past 20 years.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 5:41 pm to fallguy_1978
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BR and the surrounding areas just never built the infrastructure to handle the volume of people that have moved to them in the past 20 years.
True. It was already bad but Katrina pushed it over the edge.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 5:55 pm to Lsupimp
I’m surprised that in this day and age traffic problems can’t be solved by a computer program.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 6:52 pm to Undertow
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I’m surprised that in this day and age traffic problems can’t be solved by a computer program.
We aren't lacking a solution. We are lacking the will to fund and build a solution.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 7:03 pm to Undertow
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I’m surprised that in this day and age traffic problems can’t be solved by a computer program.
software can't warp space or time
Posted on 3/27/19 at 7:17 pm to LSUFanHouston
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We aren't lacking a solution. We are lacking the will to fund and build a solution.
Bingo!
Carter's bill would have raised the state gas tax 17 cents per gallon, which would raise $510 million per year for roads, bridges and other transportation needs.
A group that helped kill the 2017 push for a higher gas tax is launching an unusual ad campaign to derail any similar effort in 2019
These people are sitting in traffic right now with the rest of us. They fricking hate progress.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 8:18 pm to PhiTiger1764
Baton Rouge is taxed to hell but has terrible infrastructure, laughable schools, and a government primarily focused on social issues.
Maybe we need to take a hard look at the budget, overfunded services, and bloated administrations before proposing more taxes.
Maybe we need to take a hard look at the budget, overfunded services, and bloated administrations before proposing more taxes.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 8:39 pm to Bmath
The BR infrastructure needs a frickin board all by itself. There’s clearly enough material on a daily basis to keep the board very lively, as the interstate clusterfrick happens every single day. Pure comedy.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 8:43 pm to Lsupimp
The city needs A.I. to manage it.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 8:47 pm to MikeBRLA
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True. It was already bad but Katrina pushed it over the edge.
I’m done with that 14 year old excuse.
Posted on 3/27/19 at 8:49 pm to PhiTiger1764
quote:It is always a taxation issue.
These people are sitting in traffic right now with the rest of us. They fricking hate progress.
LA, as a whole, is taxed to hell and there is nothing to show for it.
Accept the fact that it isn’t taxes.
It is the citizens of the state and the people they elect.
There is no saving LA. It is done.
The only possibility is getting out before it really gets bad.
Posted on 3/28/19 at 7:23 am to LSUFanHouston
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We aren't lacking a solution. We are lacking the will to fund and build a solution.
Well actually we are lacking a solution.
The DOTD guy was on my tv last night and said there are five possible locations for a bridge in BR.
Once a site is chosen then there's a three year environmental study.
There's no plan as to how a new bridge connects to present infrastructure despite five million dollars in studies and plans over the last 20 years.
State government has failed us for decades now.
Posted on 3/28/19 at 7:28 am to kingbob
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The school situation all but forced them out financially.
Don't depend on the government to educate your kids.
Posted on 3/28/19 at 7:29 am to xiv
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Every individual with a problem with traffic is fully capable of solving his own problem.
Probably one of the dumbest comments I’ve ever seen on this site.
Posted on 3/28/19 at 7:40 am to Indefatigable
I read somewhere that the only way to solve traffic issues long term is to make all public roads pay to use.
Posted on 3/28/19 at 7:49 am to doubleb
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Once a site is chosen then there's a three year environmental study.
This why chief reason why projects are never finished or see construction.
Once it gets in the pipeline and this 3 year or longer study happens, situations change and the project then needs to reworked. Then it is almost back to square one.
Eventually, the price spikes out of funding range and then it goes back for more reworking.
We need to rework the need for some of these environmental studies to where they don’t have to take as long. You would think that with today’s computing power, satellite data, and other data points that you could put the project specific details in a computer program and it would spit out the environmental impacts.
There are artist rendering and animations of projects that are created pretty quickly to show the project. I know this a lot of CGI, but it is something that can visualize the impacts to the right person.
I believe there is an artist rendering for the new Alabama 2 billion dollar bridge for 1-10 over the Mobile river. I am not sure where they are on the environmental studies, but there is still another 5-10 years before it will be completed if ever with the disagreements over funding using tolls.
Posted on 3/28/19 at 8:02 am to Scruffy
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It is always a taxation issue.
LA, as a whole, is taxed to hell and there is nothing to show for it.
Accept the fact that it isn’t taxes.
It is the citizens of the state and the people they elect
FYI... per the 2015-2016 Annual Tax Report from LDR:
GASOLINE TAX & INSPECTION FEES have generated
$6,835,000,000.00
from FY02 to FY16!!
Over $6 BILLION collected, yet we still have shitty roads and half of all bridges get a grade of "F" (from whoever the hell grades bridges per WBRZ).
But we need to raise the gas tax to fix anything!!
Posted on 3/28/19 at 8:22 am to TigersSEC2010
Toss in that thousands of F-350’s and Suburbans that are 2.5 times the size of normal cars.
Posted on 3/28/19 at 8:43 am to Tarps99
The DOTD guy was finger pointing last night.
Rightfully so he blamed preceding administrations for not doing the required planning or studies.
But I had to chuckle. this administration has had three plus years to do the required studies and as he stated, nothing has been fine yet.
So he's blaming his predecessors while he is doing exactly what they did which is talk about problems.
Rightfully so he blamed preceding administrations for not doing the required planning or studies.
But I had to chuckle. this administration has had three plus years to do the required studies and as he stated, nothing has been fine yet.
So he's blaming his predecessors while he is doing exactly what they did which is talk about problems.
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