re: The Baton Rouge traffic problem exceeds the problem solving skills of our political class

Watching from afar and having ventured in for two sad occasions in the last couple of years it is stunning how one particular spot will just STOP everything.

It would be worth complaining about if they hadn't had the last 35 years to prepare for it. The lack of forward thinking boggles my mind and seeing where BR and the state as a whole are just makes me sad.

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You just need to understand that you lead a much simpler life than most people.

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You keep saying this, as if you could possibly know what you’re talking about. It’s amusing.

You’re mad, is all. Kisses.

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But yeah, you kind of are a sucker for allowing the government to limit your selection of housing and employment.

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CSB: I recently moved to Baton Rouge after living 12+ years in NYC.

Imagine where I could have lived if I didn’t let the government limit my selection of housing and employment ;)

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5. A completely well-earned lack of trust between taxpayers and the government. We have a gas tax that was passed specifically to pay for road improvements and only road improvements, yet only a small fraction of the trust fund actually goes to pay for roads. The vast majority of it is made up of funding for municipal bus systems like CATS, funding for airports, dredging operations for ports, and state police. If the money in the gas tax were actually used for roads (and roads alone), the backlog of projects would be FINISHED (as in all the projects are BUILT) in less than 10 years. That is how much money that is being siphoned off to other things. This is why the public will not approve more taxes. The money never goes where the government says it will go, and the government says "well if you just give us a little bit more, THIS time we'll spend it wisely! We promise!!!!" No one's buying it. Literally the only thing that literally EVERYONE in this state can agree needs money is roads. So, politicians hold funding those roads hostage so they extract more taxes from citizens to fund everything else.

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ALL HAIL THE KING!!

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You keep saying this, as if you could possibly know what you’re talking about. It’s amusing.

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You seem to think that everyone can base their living and employment decisions on commute time alone. It's hard to imagine anyone with even a bit of complexity in their lives believing that.

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CSB: I recently moved to Baton Rouge after living 12+ years in NYC.

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Why the downgrade?

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Imagine where I could have lived if I didn’t let the government limit my selection of housing and employment ;)

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When you're finished imagining that, try to imagine the possibility that other people's lives clearly don't mirror yours.

Do you think everyone who sits in traffic is just a glutton for punishment? Or do you think maybe people have other considerations in life besides their own commute time?

I’m not sure why you are engaging the troll. He’s essentially a Progressive proselytizer giving you pseudo- religious advice on how to organize your entire life. Where to work, where to live, etc . There is no larger awareness. It’s like when your eleven year old son tells you he’s going to cure cancer while playing NBA basketball. You just nod politely and say Bless his little heart.

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If Airline and Nicholson were expanded Baton Rouge to Ascension Parish and overpasses built at a few of the of the major intersections and service roads built to redirect/connect the others, it would undeniably help by creating two viable bypasses without fighting a million NIMBYS and costing billions for a new loop.

Do the Same thing with 190(Florida) From the Airline intersection east to Walker.

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All of that still bottlenecks at the bridge.

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I’m not sure why you are engaging the troll. He’s essentially a Progressive proselytizer giving you pseudo- religious advice on how to organize your entire life. Where to work, where to live, etc . There is no larger awareness. It’s like when your eleven year old son tells you he’s going to cure cancer while playing NBA basketball. You just nod politely and say Bless his little heart.

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I was just going to say "Stop feeding the dumbass troll," but your response sounds way more eloquent.

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Flushing a toilet exceeds the problem solving skills of our political class

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FIFY

I’ve never noticed you.

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our political class

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What if i told you it's actually the public, the people posting on this board right now, either lurking or responding to this very thread, that killed the BR Loop?

Weird, right? All the clamoring over needing something to get done, all the bitching and moaning, all the thread starting and upvoting at how corrupt and incompetent everyone else is...but when presented with an idea, the public comes out in full force protesting all the public meetings, yelling at DOTD and yelling at the engineers that this route "is gone take muh pawpaw's land", putting up "NO LOOP" signs in their yard, making t-shirts and holding up posterboards to "save alligator bayou!!1", and writing their congressman.

I'm not saying the loop was the only viable option. But here was yet another chance to actually get something done, and it wasn't "the politicians" or "the administration" or "DOTD" stopping anything--it was the very people that said for decades this what we want, right up until they didn't want it anymore.