There’s new road map in car-crazy St. Tammany Parish that looks a good bit more accurate than anything Waze or Google has produced.

Conceived by Lt. Carli Messina of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, the map shows the parish’s busiest thoroughfares – while offering some rather insightful commentary along the way.

U.S. 190 in Lacombe? “One slow driver = 47 angry drivers.”

The roads in the northern part of the parish? “Waze not gonna work.”

The Madisonville bridge? “Where patience goes to die.”

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway? “45 minutes of questioning life choices.”

Actually, the questioning life choices reference shows up twice on the map. It appears again on the stretch of U.S. 190 north of I-12 heading to Covington.

And it's not wrong in either case.

Messina, who works in

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