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re: EBR Mayor-President race
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:49 am to kingbob
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:49 am to kingbob
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In my opinion, SWB is the worst thing that’s happened to downtown since the oil crunch in the 80’s. She completely gutted third street, killed the light rail project, axed open containers, deleted several festivals, etc. She pretty much undid everything Kip had going.
Single dumbest thing she did, IIRC, was kill the transit project between downtown and LSU that would have been federally funded because there wouldn’t have been stops in NBR.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:52 am to teke184
The worst part about it was that said tram could have just been phase 1 of a potentially much larger system that would have reached NBR.
If campus to downtown was done properly and had solid ridership, they could have expanded it to BTR, Southern, and/or BRCC eventually. These politicians have no vision and can’t think more than one media cycle ahead.
What I pictured was the light rail and the BR/NOLA commuter rail being done to integrate into one-another.
First length of streetcar runs from the state capital down third street and Nicholson eventually ending at Brightside.
Second length goes down north blvd or gov to connect to red stick social and the greyhound station.
Third length goes up 22nd St/Plank road to the airport
Forth length connects Southern to the airport
5th length connects the greyhound station with BRCC.
6th length Brightside to Laberge
7th length connects the state capital up to cheppewa st and then Plank
Meanwhile, the commuter rail has stops at red stick social, Southdowns, the hospital district, mall of Louisiana, and blue bayou
Then, all you need at that point is one more line, maybe running on Lee/Foster to connect LSU with BRCC or Gardere with Perkins Rowe and the Mall.
If campus to downtown was done properly and had solid ridership, they could have expanded it to BTR, Southern, and/or BRCC eventually. These politicians have no vision and can’t think more than one media cycle ahead.
What I pictured was the light rail and the BR/NOLA commuter rail being done to integrate into one-another.
First length of streetcar runs from the state capital down third street and Nicholson eventually ending at Brightside.
Second length goes down north blvd or gov to connect to red stick social and the greyhound station.
Third length goes up 22nd St/Plank road to the airport
Forth length connects Southern to the airport
5th length connects the greyhound station with BRCC.
6th length Brightside to Laberge
7th length connects the state capital up to cheppewa st and then Plank
Meanwhile, the commuter rail has stops at red stick social, Southdowns, the hospital district, mall of Louisiana, and blue bayou
Then, all you need at that point is one more line, maybe running on Lee/Foster to connect LSU with BRCC or Gardere with Perkins Rowe and the Mall.
This post was edited on 5/1/24 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 5/1/24 at 12:20 pm to teke184
quote:
Single dumbest thing she did, IIRC, was kill the transit project between downtown and LSU that would have been federally funded because there wouldn’t have been stops in NBR.
She killed it for the wrong reason, but it needed killing.
It may be the best thing she’s ever done.
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