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Posted on November 26 at 2:02 p.m.

Ball has it 100% right. I've lived in Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles and metro New York. I've seen the way one-entrance/exit neighborhoods suck the life out of cities and that neighborhood, and i've seen the way neighborhoods with multiple entry/exit points keep a city moving instead of clogging the nearby roads with traffic.

I now live in Baton Rouge, in a one-way-in/one-way-out neighborhood, and it's completely insane to build neighborhoods this way. It does nothing but vent traffic onto the major throughways, not allowing any of that traffic to naturally migrate through neighborhoods on roads that are paid for by every citizen. why should my neighborhood's roads basically be used only by my neighbors? why shouldn't the rest of BR be allowed to cut through from Highland to Perkins and vice versa to shrink the god-awful traffic in this city?

Spinosa should give no ground on this. His plan is well thought-out--a benefit to a city today suffering the backlash of roadway plans designed by the blindly inept. Southdowns needs to simply suck it up and recognize that their property rights don't extend into the roadway. They must accept the fact that their roads are our roads and if I want to cut down Hyancith and slip through Rouzan to avoid poorly planned roadway gridlock at Perkins and Lee, well that's my taxpayer-given right to do so. And all the while I will be thanking Mr. Spinosa for giving me that option.

On Rouzan hell