Living in Baton Rouge is a daily struggle for me and I'm pretty sure a lot of other people from early morning and especially late afternoon, not because of the humidity and not because of the bad road conditions but Baton Rouge’s awful traffic. Every day for approximately 45 minutes to an hour I have no choice but to deal with the traffic, because I work in WBR and there’s only two ways to enter into EBR from WBR, the New Mississippi Bridge or as I know it the old bridge. It’s becoming one of the most frustrating issues for me and I'm pretty sure the rest of the city. Due to the traffic congestion consequently commuters suffer from this issue, disabling people to get from a to b in an adequate amount of time.
I think one vital reason the traffic …show more content…
Baton Rouge road ways seem to lack a shoulder which I can kind of see why the traffic easily get backed up, there’s no lane to pull over to maybe change a flat of even service in issue on your vehicle. In fact, one day stuck in traffic I realized on the Mississippi Bridge there were no shoulder for cars who may need to access a shoulder for emergency situations. Acquiring shoulders throughout the Baton Rouge area might decrease the odds of the roads becoming backed-up so fast, initially allowing people to still move and also allowing the individual with car troubles to be in a safer …show more content…
maybe time consuming but most likely highly effective plan would to build shoulders on the Mississippi River Bridge allowing the bridge to never have to come to a stop during traffic hour. Maybe even building a new bridge into Baton Rouge, yea that’s time consuming and costly but the economy will improve. Bridges don't come cheap, and the bridge across the Mississippi river probably running from land near the Dow facility on the west bank to someplace near L'Auberge Casino on the east estimated to cost roughly $1 billion. The taxpayer tab could be cut in half if we're all willing to come together and get public-private toll options. The ridiculous Mississippi River Bridge off-ramp on I-10 must be addressed and the interstate needs to be widened from the off-ramp to just before the I-10/I-12 split. But the question remains will taxpayers be willing to pay for these projects? Are we willing to consider public-private toll options in the city of Baton Rouge? Governments can charge people money to enter all the lanes on major commuting roads during peak hours especially. This would allow more people to travel in the lanes every hour, rather than heavy contested traffic. Louisiana natives are becoming more frustrated by the policymaker’s inability to do anything about this problem. Although governments may never be able to eliminate road congestion,
I think one vital reason the traffic …show more content…
Baton Rouge road ways seem to lack a shoulder which I can kind of see why the traffic easily get backed up, there’s no lane to pull over to maybe change a flat of even service in issue on your vehicle. In fact, one day stuck in traffic I realized on the Mississippi Bridge there were no shoulder for cars who may need to access a shoulder for emergency situations. Acquiring shoulders throughout the Baton Rouge area might decrease the odds of the roads becoming backed-up so fast, initially allowing people to still move and also allowing the individual with car troubles to be in a safer …show more content…
maybe time consuming but most likely highly effective plan would to build shoulders on the Mississippi River Bridge allowing the bridge to never have to come to a stop during traffic hour. Maybe even building a new bridge into Baton Rouge, yea that’s time consuming and costly but the economy will improve. Bridges don't come cheap, and the bridge across the Mississippi river probably running from land near the Dow facility on the west bank to someplace near L'Auberge Casino on the east estimated to cost roughly $1 billion. The taxpayer tab could be cut in half if we're all willing to come together and get public-private toll options. The ridiculous Mississippi River Bridge off-ramp on I-10 must be addressed and the interstate needs to be widened from the off-ramp to just before the I-10/I-12 split. But the question remains will taxpayers be willing to pay for these projects? Are we willing to consider public-private toll options in the city of Baton Rouge? Governments can charge people money to enter all the lanes on major commuting roads during peak hours especially. This would allow more people to travel in the lanes every hour, rather than heavy contested traffic. Louisiana natives are becoming more frustrated by the policymaker’s inability to do anything about this problem. Although governments may never be able to eliminate road congestion,