As of now, on Blue side, you have a few distinct advantages. One is that for bot lane, you both don't have to leash at blue, you have the option of killing the double golems. Essentially this means that for Blue side bot lane, you go into the lane with more experience/gold and a few minions ahead depending on how long the enemy laners helped their jungler.
Now one could make the argument that top laners have the opposite problem but there's a few big differences. For one, top laners cannot do doubles nearly as easily because there is only one person. They cannot juggle aggro and they only have access to one spell instead of two. So taking doubles as a top laner is usually a large investment, forcing them to pop multiple pots instead of maybe just one. Top laners also do not take as much of a risk heading to lane through river since they only have one person in lane against them. So, they can leash for blue and usually not miss any minions at all on Blue side.
A second major difference that gives Blue an advantage is that the Tri-Brush top side isn't on their side of the map. In other words a jungler can come through Tri to gank Red side much more easily than it can be used to gank someone Blue side.
Again, you could make the argument that the situation is reversed for Bot lane but there are two important factst that make it less important. The first is that bot lane has two people. Meaning that any ganks are going to be 3 vs 2 instead of 2 vs 1. 3 vs 2 are much better odds than 2 vs 1 so jungler presence is going to usually have a lower significance bot lane. The second important distinction is that bot lane has a support. One of support's major jobs is to buy wards and get a sightstone. So, bot lane will almost always have more vision than top because one person's job in the lane is essentially to grant vision. These differences significantly decrease the effect having the Tri at your back has for Blue side bot lane.
One might still have the suggestion to change lanes. Yes, this can be an option and it can make the differences swap to an extent, however there are two major problems with doing so.
If Red side switches top and bot to give their "bot" lane doubles and early laning dominance, they're essentially giving the advantage to the lane that is already going to get this advantage anyway. 2v1 lanes should always essentially be won. Having that edge at the beginning isn't going to be a super big deal when you're already giving the advantage to both bot lanes. And doing this essentially takes away a huge chunk of your dragon pressure. With a 2v1 right next to dragon they can easily push, pink ward and take dragons. This can't be said for Top since getting early barons is incredibly hard and usually takes a full and fed team.
Now aside from drastically changing Summoner's Rift there are still a few options that could make this situation better. One is to make taking buffs at the start of the game less challenging. If buffs didn't need to be helped on so much early red side bot lane could get to lane at a reasonable time before they lost the first few minions.
Another change that could be made is to make taking doubles harder for non junglers. Perhaps what could be done is to make hunter's machete reduce jungle minion damage and then flat increase jungle minion damage by the same amount. Then junglers would be able to jungle with the same effectiveness but taking early jungle camps for laners would be challenging.
I'm sure there are plenty of other options but I do believe that something should be done.
Taking a look at some win rates for both sides is somewhat troubling.
Overall, for all tiers in NA, Blue side has a 10% higher win rate than Red side. 53% - 43%
Even looking at Diamond, nearly the highest level of play, shows a 10% win difference, 55% - 45%
That difference is far too big. It needs to be made smaller if not non-existant.
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