re: The Baton Rouge Florida Blvd plan, what genius thinks this will work

It might work.

I had to do research on site selection for a company that was considering a place on Florida blvd years ago. The section with those service roads are weird....could never figure out how to calculate traffic counts accurately.

I think those retailers would be better served by a wider 6 or 8 lane street with a wide, landscaped median than a 4 lane highway with service/feeder roads. There is 200' of right of way in most of those sections east of Airline. They could move the travel lanes to the far edges of it and make a lot of those businesses more visible while also improving aesthetics.

They way they have that part of the highway now with the service roads but without overpasses at the intersections is the worst of both worlds.