Business After Government Street, should other Baton Rouge roads go on a ‘diet’? By David Jacobs - October 5, 2023 iStock.com/smodj FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailPrint Work to put most of Baton Rouge’s Government Street on a “road diet”—turning four lanes into three (including a turning lane) while adding bike lanes and medians and improving sidewalks—was completed in 2021. Already an INSIDER? Sign in.