re: Dear Baton Rouge Folk, Your Traffic Sucks arse

I went to a few of those back then too. I remember the proposed route brought it right through the fastest growing area of Livingston and then right through Central despite the hwy 63 corridor was a mile north and had little to no residential impact. Later it came out that the proposed route would take it right through several "pieces of land" that were owned by some prominent people in both parishes. I'm sure they were wanting the money to buy out their property at a rate that no one else would get. The politicians are what killed that project. I spoke with one of the DOTD engineers back then and he agreed that the hwy 63 corridor was what made the most sense and that anytime it was brought up in meetings it was shot down quickly.