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Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:40 pm to teke184
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is that there is no easy way into North Blvd, their preferred east-west thoroughfare, from most directions.
I take North from work downtown to my house in capital heights without issue. What I do have a problem with is the city telling drivers to use North when the road conditions are horrible. The stretch between Acadian and South Foster is full of shock-stressing buckles and potholes.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:42 pm to SG_Geaux
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Rip them out and go back to 4 lanes
That's not going to happen.
Honestly I'd have avoided the medians entirely and just made a two lane minor artery with street parking on both side of the road except in areas that already have a lot of parking, where I'd go with a 3 lane format with a center turn lane. I wouldn't allow left turns except in turn lanes. And no useless bike lanes that are never used.
If they did it my way, the pedestrians they are trying to attract would have a line of parked cars between them and traffic. And retail spaces without parking lots wouldn't be totally useless. If they were hell bent on expensive landscaping, they could sacrifice a few street parking spot for tree islands where the business owners were okay with them.
Their idea was good, but the execution was stupid. Now they have a center median with landscaping that has to be maintained, and traffic still buzzes pretty close by the sidewalk and the front doors of a lot of businesses.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:43 pm to facher08
I used to live in CH years ago.
It was impossible to get from the stretch of CH to the east of Foster to North Blvd during rush hour because you couldn’t get across Government, you had one way going down CH to Foster, and Claycut is perpetually a clusterfrick.
It was impossible to get from the stretch of CH to the east of Foster to North Blvd during rush hour because you couldn’t get across Government, you had one way going down CH to Foster, and Claycut is perpetually a clusterfrick.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:45 pm to teke184
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It was impossible to get from the stretch of CH to the east of Foster to North Blvd during rush hour
This is where I live. It isn't an issue anymore.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:45 pm to GetBackToWork
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I know it’s an unpopular opinion here, but the new arrangement is actually helping traffic counts and has reduced accident counts.
You are right, but I don't think it's really helping businesses with foot traffic like they wanted. They should have forgotten the bike lanes and put in street parking.
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The flower beds would be better off with something else planted, but lots of cities have these.
They need lower maintenance things planted there if they are going to keep them. Or just throw a few native trees and some St. Augustine grass in there and call it a day. Let BR Green cover the tree plantings and let local businesses sponsor the costs like they do everywhere else with tree plantings in public right of way.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:46 pm to GetBackToWork
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save for when the three area high schools and one grammar school let out in the afternoon. That was always a cluster.
The carpool line for Louisiana Key Academy screws everything.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:48 pm to frequent flyer
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You are right, but I don't think it's really helping businesses with foot traffic like they wanted. They should have forgotten the bike lanes and put in street parking.
99% of the day to day bike lane usage is by hoodrats that don't patronize most of the businesses they thought would help. And even then most of them ride on the sidewalk. They have enough sense not to risk riding in the street itself.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:48 pm to doubleb
Here’s my idea Fred: assign DPW employees to certain areas of the city. It will be incumbent on those employees to notice, maintain, and repair issues like this promptly and with city resources already available.
If the responsible party can’t get the job done, then they should be fired or demoted. If they do properly maintain or improve their area by objective measures, then they get bonuses or promoted.
This way, a small crew would have autonomy to repair the curbs and small items of disrepair without the red tape and the finger pointing.
If the responsible party can’t get the job done, then they should be fired or demoted. If they do properly maintain or improve their area by objective measures, then they get bonuses or promoted.
This way, a small crew would have autonomy to repair the curbs and small items of disrepair without the red tape and the finger pointing.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:49 pm to doubleb
Rip them out and make alternating passing lanes. Drives me nuts to get behind someone doing 25 from Independence to downtown.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:49 pm to doubleb
This project is a great example of when Karens and bike Nazis get the ear of influential politicians. DOTD and the City didn't want the project, they were told to do the project.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:49 pm to frequent flyer
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Their idea was good, but the execution was stupid. Now they have a center median with landscaping that has to be maintained
And almost every water line get busted and sprays water in the air for a week or two.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:52 pm to facher08
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The stretch between Acadian and South Foster is full of shock-stressing buckles and potholes.
It's pretty bad. And you are right that they are funneling more traffic there. It would have made sense to at least overlay it before they did the work on Gov Street.
The state is doing a similar thing by narrowing I-10 for construction before they even started widening Airline Highway or LA30. There's just no thought or planning. Like every project is done in a silo without contextualizing the rest of the network, often competing with each other for funding.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:53 pm to frequent flyer
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This is actually LADOTD.
Yes, but the project details were pushed by the locals and the parish initially put up 4.2 million dollars, the Feds put up 5.4 in safety funds and 1 million in ADA funds. The state only put up 1.1 million dollars.
It was pushed as a big safety project and an economic aid to the area.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:55 pm to RougeDawg
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This project is a great example of when Karens and bike Nazis get the ear of influential politicians. DOTD and the City didn't want the project, they were told to do the project.
Including bike lanes was incredibly stupid. That severely limited the value add to taxpayers and local businesses over what a few carefully placed sections of street parking would have done.
And like it was noted earlier, you regularly see idiots in lifted/leveled trucks (or even bigger idiots in Nissan Altimas) driving over the medians and damaging the landscaping and the irrigation. If they are going to stick with this format, they should put in St. Augustine grass and plant some native trees.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:55 pm to doubleb
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It was pushed as a big safety project and an economic aid to the area.
It's probably achieved the safety goals, but it's just not doing anything from an economic standpoint....at least not anything that wasn't already going to happen.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:56 pm to teke184
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If they had cut that through
If they had cut Jefferson through that neighborhood next to the old Fleur De Lis and arced West snd aligned Jefferson with N Blvd. they would have done some good.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:57 pm to doubleb
Need to find out the cost of the study and all project work for this fiasco.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:57 pm to doubleb
They need to build an interstate extension along the Florida Blvd corridor from the bridge out to Airline Hwy and tie into I-12.
IT would take a ton of traffic off surface streets thru BR and if done correctly, it would eliminate the current bridge bottleneck issues and lessen I-10 traffic from the bridge to the 10/12 split.
But nahhhh, its too hard to do a few miles of public domain shite along an existing highway easement. Instead lets buy NEW property and build a brand new 50 mile highway thru cane fields from Grosse Tete to St Gabriel with a bridge in the metropolis of White Castle.
IT would take a ton of traffic off surface streets thru BR and if done correctly, it would eliminate the current bridge bottleneck issues and lessen I-10 traffic from the bridge to the 10/12 split.
But nahhhh, its too hard to do a few miles of public domain shite along an existing highway easement. Instead lets buy NEW property and build a brand new 50 mile highway thru cane fields from Grosse Tete to St Gabriel with a bridge in the metropolis of White Castle.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:57 pm to frequent flyer
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There's just no thought or planning
LA budgeting and planning in a nutshell.
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