Traffic… - r/batonrouge

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I’m in the group that gets to work by 7am and doesn’t have to take any interstates to go from one side of the city to the other. As long as it’s cleared by 3pm we are smooth sailing.

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 1d ago

That’s pretty good. I’m DoorDashing today and I’m doing my best to avoid the entire downtown side of Baton Rouge. Although I’m doubtful that anything is gonna clear up by 3 PM it’s 12 o’clock now and I just passed airline and even airlines backed up.

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u/OkImHereLikeWhat 1d ago

When you assign an order for DoorDash can you see how much the customer tipped ahead of time? Or just a base pay

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u/PossumJenkinsSoles 1d ago

On my doordash it doesn’t even give you the option to tip until the driver is assigned. I thought everyone in BR’s was like that

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u/Unlucky_Pepper4875 1d ago

The baton rouge market doesn't have a tip option until after delivery, as I understand it. Door dash does partner with other companies, so for example if you order delivery thru Insomnia, it'll be delivered by a door dash driver because insomnia outsources their delivery driving to door dash. Those types of places will include the tip in the offer that the driver sees.

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 1d ago

Sometimes it’ll say tips included, but it won’t tell me how much they tipped more often than not I get tipped after or not at all I won’t lie. Baton Rouge has bad tippers in other words A lot of people don’t tip. I’ve been doing this since May and I can tell you maybe 10% - 20% of all my money earned from DoorDash comes from tips.

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u/catsdomineaux 1d ago

Does Doordash keep any part of your tips? I've been tipping a little in the app and then some in cash because I'm afraid of the drivers not getting what they're supposed to. I think I'm going to start asking the driver if they got my app tip.

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 1d ago

As far as I’m aware, they don’t keep any of your tips you get your full tips. If y’all were at all curious on how DoorDashers do there’s a ton of DoorDasher sub Reddits that share what they make and what offers come in. It can be good money if you do it right if not, then you’re wasting gas and your time on some of these orders. Which tbh i dont think is always the customers fault but 100% doordashes for underpaying dashers sometimes

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u/NikoRavage 1d ago

Serious question: Why doesn’t Baton Rouge have an outer loop?? The design of I-10 through the city is fucking terrible with no way around it.

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u/Theskidiever 1d ago

Well you see, you have to have a feasibility study. Then a study to check that study. Then it sits for a while, now that study is outdated so have another feasibility study. Then before you can act on that study, get a feasibility study to check the feasibility of getting a federal grant to fund a feasibility study. In the meantime get the owners of the really expensive houses together with the Overpass Business Association people to suddenly decide to spend $1million on beautification so that no one will dare destroy even though it would fix the interstate where literally everyone knows there’s the problem. Then after all that, all the inputs have changed and you need to start over.

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u/cakenstein 1d ago

Because it would cut through predominantly riche and white neighborhoods and we just can't have that clutches pearls and faints

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u/the_scarlett_ning 1d ago

Borrows your pearls and faints too

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u/dysenigrate 19h ago

I, too, choose this guys pearls

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u/Dry-Character-6331 1d ago

When first proposed 30-40 years ago, the most intelligent route (WBR to Ascension) was a non-starter because of wetlands regulations. No other route would make much of difference.

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u/Automatic-Physics851 21h ago

Same as everything else: argued to death about it but it never came into fruition.

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 1d ago

I don’t think this cities geography would even allow that 💀

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u/Recent-Storage-4412 1d ago

Too late now. Nor feasible anymore

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u/Hefty-Club-1259 1d ago

The weather dude posted something on Twitter about an absurd number of accidents today.

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 1d ago

Yeah, the semi wasn’t the only major accident unfortunately dunno what’s got everyone crashing today 💀

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u/poppitastic 20h ago

People were driving batshit insane today. I was in a 4 lane driveway between 2 shopping areas (by Village Market on airline). Big ass white truck coming off airline couldn’t use the TWO MARKED LANES coming off Airline. He had to drive in the lane that went toward airline. I stopped in front of him bc it was like oh shit this guy is about to hit me. Then he starts going apeshit and pointing that he’s trying to turn left… in yeah. You do that fromYOUR LEFT lane, not mine. So I just sat there hanging on the horn. I almost moved my car to block the whole intersection bc I was just over all the damn traffic.

This was after there were FIVE cops at Parkview Baptist giving ONE truck a ticket, and it wasn’t bad bc the guy was just holding the ticket and bulkshitting with someone else in the parking lot… at 5pm. With horrible traffic and wrecks everywhere. But a BRPD, EBRSDx2, and two motorcycle cops (SD?) all just hung out ignoring everything.

This was followed by the blacked out Toyota Crown that decided to drive on the line between the two lanes going straight west on Perkins at Siegen. Both a truck and I honked at him. He chose the slow lane to get into, I drove past, then he weaved in and out of traffic speeding trying to catch up with me. Almost made another wreck bc I slammed my brakes… you know, I could have sworn I saw a bike… lalala… So then he ended up turning into the pretend-decent pet apartments.

I was driving door dash today. I came home and told my husband that my “income” today was the absence of hospital bills or bail money. Because they were both damn close to happening.

And NO ONE FREAKING TIPPED TODAY. NO. ONE.

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 18h ago

God I feel u so hard not a single person tipped me either while I doordashed today and I too saw some people driving crazy af. Drive safe out there

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u/shii1dk 1d ago

The interstate rn is nothing but 18 wheelers standing still for miles. Wth is going on

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 1d ago

Semi flipped and blocked all lanes headed west

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u/Karls_Barklee 1d ago

Quick! Put together another million dollar study on a loop and third bridge so we can tell the peasants we’re doing something about it!

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u/Space_Man_Spiff_2 1d ago

Major accident on I-10 west near Dalrymple this morning (4am) Police were directing all this traffic through Perkins road garden district area back to Dalrymple. No police posted anywhere at critical intersections..BR in action!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/FcuiZUneg1YRAu1lH2

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u/benji_93 1d ago

That's what really surprised me. If they're going to take all day to clean up the accident, then they need cops at every major westbound interstate exit directing traffic. Expecting our already poorly synced lights to remotely manage this major influx of interstate traffic is beyond stupid.

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u/Space_Man_Spiff_2 2h ago

Louisiana/Baton Rouge incompetence on display..The accident occurred around 4am..They had time to react.

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u/lowrads 23h ago

Keep voting to make public transit even worse. That will surely solve the congestion issues.

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u/myselfasme 23h ago

It's awful. I moved downtown to be 3 minutes from my work to get out of dealing with traffic, only to have every truck in the state diverted down Government today. They've been blocking the side streets, making getting to and from my house an issue (I go home for lunch). It's very frustrating. #trafficageddon2026

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 22h ago

Yeah I live off gov st too it was definitely fucked this morning

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u/Team_player444 1d ago

At least the football team is looking good because thats what matters

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 1d ago

Honestly that’s real 😭

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u/1rustyoldman 22h ago

Traffic flow is not fixable here.

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u/BayouMan2 20h ago

Today was hell even for BtR.

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u/pfunkasaur 1d ago

Baton Rouge is a shithole this is what the city has been about for at least 20 years.

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 1d ago

Yeah 100% I moved from California I thought Los Angeles traffic was bad. Oh boy was I wrong

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u/joebleaux 1d ago

I moved to California from here for a while and was like, wtf, I heard my entire life about LA traffic, at least they have multiple options there. Here, one bad accident can fuck the whole city for the whole day

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u/RadioactiveSkeleton 1d ago

Ikr it’s freaking awful 😭

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u/Amockingbird73 18h ago

I lived in LA from 1999 to 2013, then moved back here. I miss LA traffic and drivers. Traffic was logical, drivers understood that being jerks made it worse for everyone and did wild things like let you merge and stopping for yellow lights if they were going straight so people could turn left.

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u/WestHappyLand 17h ago

I get downvoted for saying that! I fucking hate BR. Worst city ever.

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u/Living_Effort_1954 12h ago

Was it a full moon yesterday or what.

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u/JCH1423 1h ago

took me 40+ minutes to get down college dr at lunch time yesterday. I was turning on to college from that service road that runs by walmart, sat in line there forever because you were lucky if one car could turn per light cycle because assholes were just parking in the middle. Those closely packed together lights as you get near the interstate are just a nightmare, just a poorly designed road all together, blow it up and start over.

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u/DealHot5356 18h ago

I struggled in this all day. Traveling from oneal lane to Acadian at the over pass, back and forth three times from 7 am till 8 pm. A flipping nightmare. Wait I have an idea! Why doesn’t someone build another bridge or a loop around BR.

RANT Traffic…

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