re: The city of BR needs us to weigh in about Government Street.

Those cement beds need to be ripped the eff out ASAP. They are a traffic hazard for the middle lane. They block the flow of entering the middle lane. Very dangerous one in front of Superior Grill.

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Any time you make a 4 lane road into a 2 lane road you are no longer making progress but regress. Most local governments are widening roads to make traffic more streamlined but BR is going backwards.

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No, cities are moving towards providing alternate forms of transportation. It does and has provided a boost in business and therefore tax dollars, in the area.

If we can’t even get this little Government St project right then just how big of a clusterF is the Jefferson/Drusilla circus going to be?

And the trouble with Government street, is that it's full of Government!

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This is actually LADOTD.

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It was BRAF. Those losers push this BS then run away the minute it blows up.

They are still pushing the BR - NOLA train that no one will ride. Anyone remember the “Garden District Trolley”? What a joke.

The fact that the city has to ask tells you all that’s wrong with government and politics.
Government street wasn’t even an artery that was a major problem.
It was more the businesses that wanted to turn it into magazine street like in New Orleans

They need to concrete the medians or put grass.
Then make the Government Street commercial businesses in this area pay a special tax for the grass to be cut.
They made the problem and they need to fix it.

Burn it down

Fix your frick up and make it 4 lanes again, It really is that simple, but these dumb fricks can't do anything right.This is why i try to avoid Government street.

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Fix your frick up and make it 4 lanes again

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The road diet itself isn’t a bad idea. It’s now safer and way better looking. But configuration they selected is not ideal for most sections of that street west of Foster. The project as a whole is a case study in how lost and inept LADOTD actually is when it comes to handling design details. They can’t handle major highway projects or smaller surface streets like this.

The bike lanes are really pointless. They are very rarely used. LADOTD got feedback in the design process from local businesses that questioned why bike lanes were there instead of parallel parking spaces. It was all ignored and somehow the bike lanes became the top priority of the project. And they didn’t bother even trying to incorporate street parking anywhere even though spaces like that could also be used for bike racks for the pretend bike riders that pushed so hard for bike lanes.

If they want to keep the landscaping medians, they should find lower maintenance plants and trees to use there. That is a decent setup east of Jefferson or through the garden district.

Most of the section west of Foster should have been a combination of a center turn lane in some areas and a two lane road with parallel parking in others, depending on the format of the businesses on the street. If they wanted bike lanes so badly, put them between the street parking and the lanes of traffic. No raised medians. And definitely not raised medians with landscaping that requires constant maintenance.