Baton Rouge Photo of the Day

[byrde]

Hilltop Arboretum

[byrde]

New Country Kitchen Restaurant in the Howell Place Development

[dimebag1980]

New Country Kitchen Restaurant in the Howell Place Development

Looks nice! I've eaten at one of those in Illinois. We have a Country Kitchen here, but it's a little local dive that's been around forever. The chain is much better, in my opinion!

[byrde]

Chase Bank Tower

[dimebag1980]

Chase Bank Tower

Now we're talking. Very nice.

[richyb83]

Nice pic Byrde; the 3rd and 4th tallest bldgs. in BR !

But for how long ?

[BRPJ]

I'm with Nate... I had no idea. So it's just strictly suburban development. That says a lot about the strength of that area, and it's definitely a busy area. I wonder if Baton Rouge will end up annexing all that? With all the tax dollars being generated in that area, I'm completely shocked at the mere thought that it's not inside the city limits. I guess EBR Parish receives the taxes from all that then!?

It makes no sense to me. i used to live off siegen and perkins....

that is where all the growth in baton rouge is, at least the major part for the last ten years.

If B.R. at least annexed the southern portion of the parish, wish basically is baton rouge anyway, the population would probably already been 300,000.

[NCB]

Some Baton Rouge I-12 pictures.

Part of University Lake from I-12

[richyb83]

Great pics there Nate. Such familiar territory.

These Interstates were built back in the early 70's, have received some criticsm on where exactly they cut-thru the city. Build over or around the lakes ? Which neigborhoods get split-n-two ? That would have been a difficult choice no matter where you decided.

What was the person who designed the 90 degree-angle entrance to the Mississippi River Bridge thinking ???

[NCB]

What was the person who designed the 90 degree-angle entrance to the Mississippi River Bridge thinking ???

You've got me. And I'm sure alot of people feel the same way.

[richyb83]

Besides the poor planning, I believe some of BR traffic problems are due to these factors as well :

* over-grown , land-locked city, with diagonal-grid(south-half)not a typical north/south grid.

All roads go in a South-east direction toward New Orleans. Jefferson Hwy,Perkins Rd., Highland Rd. When first built, Airline Hwy. was intended to be a "by-pass". This has messed-up the north-south traffic flow in the city IMO.

[byrde]

City Parish Building Downtown

[NCB]

^That's a pretty cool looking building, IMO. Nice shot, bryde!

[Mith242]

Interesting design, thanks for the pic.

[byrde]

Planetarium Dome at the Louisiana Arts and Science Museum

[Mith242]

Nice looking place.

[byrde]

Old State Capitol

[dimebag1980]

I've always loved photos of that building. Very cool.

[TBurban]

Wow, nice looking building! Great shot! Looks almost Medievel

[richyb83]

Great job Byrde on getting Baton Rouge exposure. The Old State Capitol looks 100% better now, since the touch-up. To think the idiots actually considered tearing this down around 1990. I am glad they did not.

[Mith242]

A very interesting building. Thanks for sharing the pic. If you have any more of it please post them.

[byrde]

I'll get some more this weekend.

[Mith242]

I'll get some more this weekend.

Cool, thanks. I'll look forward to seeing them after I get back in town.

[NCB]

Great photo's, bryde! Thank you for giving us all some great views of, along with exposure of, Baton Rouge.

[byrde]

Check out the cranes at Perkins Rowe.