Tell us something we didn’t know. A stretch of I-10 in Baton Rouge has garnered an ignominious rank of 13 on a list of the 75 worst commutes in the United States, besting Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Diego and dozens of other much larger cities.
Politics and culture Web site The Daily Beast, in partnership with traffic tracking firm INRIX, which gathers traffic information nationwide from 1.5 million GPS units, set out to rank the cities with the worst commutes based on peak-hour travel time and time spent in bottlenecks.
Baton Rouge’s data show that commuters spent an average of 93 hours per week in bottleneck congestion, 19 of them at the worst bottleneck — I-10 westbound at the Bluebonnet exit. The Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles earned the top ranking.
... written by Jason D. Faulk , January 20, 2010 - 06:27 pm
Perhaps this should make us somewhat glad that Lafayette did not develop around a freeway "system". In effect, this has held check on sub-urban sprawl style developments. I don't suggest that the current situation is a pleasant one for all concerned who travel the main car arteries to the edges of Lafayette Parish daily, but reading this blog post should give us reason to consider and compare our situation to others. The state and federal governments will have been untold hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, performing freeway updgrades to I-10 and I-12 over the years, and what has it gotten Baton Rouge? Their traffic situation is probably worse than ever. How's that for progress?
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , January 22, 2010 - 01:36 am
What is needed here, is to dismantle the SUNSHINE BRIDGE and re-erect the bridge, and lead on with a 4-lane directly to the I-12 / I-10 junction !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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