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re: Traffic on Hwy 73 in Dutchtown
Posted on 8/8/19 at 3:43 pm to fallguy_1978
Posted on 8/8/19 at 3:43 pm to fallguy_1978
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I'm not that familiar with much of Ascension but it always amazes me when I'm out there how they've thrown up tons of neighborhoods on these narrow 2 lane highways. That's definitely a planning failure.
That's not even the most frustrating thing about Ascension.
The parish council has let commercial developers go ape shite and throw up shopping malls and subdivisions everywhere without one care to infrastructure for them.
As a result, Ascension is one big jumbled mess now and is repeating the same mistake Baton Rouge made decades ago with planning for the future.
The roadway infrastructure in Baton Rouge is too small for the population there now. The same mistake is happening in Ascension right now.
I miss the days when this parish used to be mostly rural.
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Posted on 8/8/19 at 4:06 pm to WildManGoose
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Now they're expanding Bluff road b/c they're building a middle school. I would bet my life that they're going to frick it up again with a turning lane. Traffic is going to quadruple on that road.
I would say that is an accurate assumption considering the expansion is only like a quarter mile and in front of where the school is.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 4:26 pm to Sentrius
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miss the days when this parish used to be mostly rural.
I liked it when it 7 oaks was the only subdivision. Sucks now.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 4:36 pm to Fusaichi Pegasus
I live right by there, and let me give you an insider's perspective. This is what you're competing with at that time:
1. Normal rush hour of people going to work
2. Dutchtown Primary/Middle and Dutchtown High School (I don't know the exact number but I'm going to guess the two of those is probably about 4,000 kids
3. The plant workers coming that way from Geismar and St. Gabriel
And on occasion, you have extra contractors working a turnaround at one of those plants and it's worse.
So in other words, stay off that stretch at rush hour unless you absolutely have to be on it.
1. Normal rush hour of people going to work
2. Dutchtown Primary/Middle and Dutchtown High School (I don't know the exact number but I'm going to guess the two of those is probably about 4,000 kids
3. The plant workers coming that way from Geismar and St. Gabriel
And on occasion, you have extra contractors working a turnaround at one of those plants and it's worse.
So in other words, stay off that stretch at rush hour unless you absolutely have to be on it.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 5:49 pm to RealityTiger
To top it off, a school bus t-boned a pickup truck at the intersection of I-10 and 73 (north side). This happened somewhere between 2:30-2:45, this afternoon. I don’t think any kids were on the bus. Traffic was bad (fire trucks, ambulances, cop cars)
Posted on 8/8/19 at 6:36 pm to Sentrius
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I miss the days when this parish used to be mostly rural.
Yea, but it isn't, although the infrastructure is. I wonder what a major suburb of a fairly large city does with all of its money.
And then I wonder if they really have much. The big $ comes from sales tax on retail. They have no high end and little even middle-end retail in Ascension. They finally got a movie theater in the last 10 years. The restaurants are subpar. One reason I think of lack of retail is that the population is dispersed. You have D-Ville. 10 miles away is Gonzales. Another 5 to Dutchtown, another 5 to Parieville. And then I guess the whole north-east side.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 6:45 pm to MrPappagiorgio
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use your brain moran
lol
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:02 pm to mikelbr
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Dutchtown High needs a student driver entry/exit to 74 behind the Baseball Field to Carne Lane. That would fix a LOT of the frickery at 630 during school. Add dis!
They are still going to have to travel down 73 to get to 73/74 intersection.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:36 pm to fightin tigers
Man when you hit that crossguard with her hands out telling you to stop, it's like getting kicked in the nuts. You're watching car after car turning out the lot and then when it's your time to get going, the whole stretch from DHS to I-10 is filled, bumper to bumper with cars. 
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:45 pm to RealityTiger
Apparently fewer and fewer kids are driving, so maybe this solves itself in a couple decades.
Took almost 30 years for them to get 42 fixed after some friends were killed. So no doubt AP planning will be on it.....right after the next waterpark.
Took almost 30 years for them to get 42 fixed after some friends were killed. So no doubt AP planning will be on it.....right after the next waterpark.
This post was edited on 8/8/19 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:56 pm to fightin tigers
Well what pisses me off is they had their chance to fix it when they widened it ten or so years ago. Instead of 4 laning it, they went the cheapo route and simply put a middle lane. I'm sorry but Hwy 73 needs to be 4 lanes from Hwy 30 all the way to Airline. And Hwy 74 needs to be 4 lane from Bluff Road to Airline, and Hwy 30 needs to be 4 lane from the part where it merges on LSU campus all the way to Airline. That should have happened 20 years ago.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 8:59 pm to RealityTiger
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Hwy 74 needs to be 4 lane from Bluff Road to Airline, and Hw
Not in my front yard
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:00 pm to mikelbr
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Many of these people have no other means to get to and from work/store/drug dealers(jk) and it's bullshite the parish/state hasn't built sidewalks/shoulders along 42, Duplessis/Germany(931), 621, 74, Bluff, Joe Sevario, 929 and so on. Absolutely irresponsible.
Andre Gautier told me Ascension’s roads are 1940’s compatible.
Thought that my case looked good after hearing this until Jody Anedee took over and being the politician, the local Insurance Agent/donor got off cheap. fricking clannish Gonzales bullshite.
This post was edited on 8/8/19 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:03 pm to Overbrook
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And then I wonder if they really have much.
Chemical Plants sell a lot of chemicals.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:04 pm to RealityTiger
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Well what pisses me off is they had their chance to fix it when they widened it ten or so years ago. Instead of 4 laning it, they went the cheapo route and simply put a middle lane. I'm sorry but Hwy 73 needs to be 4 lanes from Hwy 30 all the way to Airline. And Hwy 74 needs to be 4 lane from Bluff Road to Airline, and Hwy 30 needs to be 4 lane from the part where it merges on LSU campus all the way to Airline. That should have happened 20 years ago.
Better idea...route the BS plant traffic the frick out of this area on a new on ramp from 74 onto 10, and one at cornerview onto 10. All the truck nuts, oversized wide tires, extra big exhaust pipes & tool boxes are cluttering up the small town feel.
This post was edited on 8/8/19 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:11 pm to Passing Wind
quote:They had their chance with that one too. I don't know if it's even possible now. Will have to get creative and do something like they're doing with the Picou Exit. I know it's on the books for a future project. I sure as hell wish they would.
Better idea...route the BS plant traffic the frick out of this area on a new on ramp from 74 onto 10, and one at cornerview onto 10. All the truck nuts, oversized wide tires, extra big exhaust pipes & tool boxes are cluttering up the small town feel.
All those plant vehicles are people who live on Hwy 42, EBR, and Livingston Parish (going the back way on Old Jefferson and then by Fred's).
Posted on 8/8/19 at 9:58 pm to Passing Wind
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All the truck nuts, oversized wide tires, extra big exhaust pipes & tool boxes are cluttering up the small town feel.
What the frick do you think Dutchtown/Geismar was before BR transplants came in and fricked it up? The only way to the plants was from Airline down 73 to River Road.
Brady's is a daycare now, the other local dive was paved over for a coffee shop and stationary store. frick, Lone Oak (KNB) stands as the last small store in that stretch and the soccer Mom's would flip their shite if contractors cracked open beers on their tailgates like they did on Thursday afternoons before Seven Oaks was built.
The small town was built with truck nuts, transplants turned it into everything that is wrong with yuppie BR flighters.
Booger Berteau couldn't survive in Dutchtown as it exists today. And that is a damn shame.
This post was edited on 8/8/19 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 8/8/19 at 10:28 pm to whoa
DOTD had it set to a five lane before the parish complained about the contractor. During the pissing match, a tree hugger made the Oaks near St John, the cemetery, and Seven Oaks, "historic."
Posted on 8/8/19 at 10:38 pm to kmack1339
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During the pissing match, a tree hugger made the Oaks near St John, the cemetery, and Seven Oaks, "historic
Dr Phillips land.
I heard the same story, but someone who worked at the cemetary said that wasn't true. And if it was true why was the rest of the road not 4 lane.
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