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Why did NOLA expand North and not West?
Posted on 5/12/24 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 5/12/24 at 9:52 pm
I have been scratching my head as to why NOLA's growth is to the north (Covington, Mandeville, etc) and not west into St. Charles parish (Destrehan, Hahnville, etc.)
It takes 45 minutes (plus a hefty toll and causeway police) to get from Covington to the CBD (not accounting for traffic).
It takes 25 minutes to get from Destrehan to the CBD, toll-free.
Both St. Tammany and St. Charles parishes offer a political jurisdiction independent of the dumpster fire that is Orleans Parish.
Today St. Tammany parish has nearly 300,000 people. St. Charles has just 52,000.
So why did St. Tammany get all of the development and not St. Charles? I don't get it.
It takes 45 minutes (plus a hefty toll and causeway police) to get from Covington to the CBD (not accounting for traffic).
It takes 25 minutes to get from Destrehan to the CBD, toll-free.
Both St. Tammany and St. Charles parishes offer a political jurisdiction independent of the dumpster fire that is Orleans Parish.
Today St. Tammany parish has nearly 300,000 people. St. Charles has just 52,000.
So why did St. Tammany get all of the development and not St. Charles? I don't get it.
This post was edited on 5/12/24 at 9:54 pm
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Posted on 5/12/24 at 9:53 pm to TIGERHOLD
Flooding.
Cypress trees don't lie.
Cypress trees don't lie.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 9:54 pm to TIGERHOLD
You know why.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 9:56 pm to TIGERHOLD
I wish it would've expanded east.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 9:57 pm to TIGERHOLD
Have you ever been to Destrehan?
Not a lot of dry land over there.
Not a lot of dry land over there.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 9:59 pm to TIGERHOLD
quote:Because St Charles has a ton of land that isn’t suitable for development because its low lying swamp
So why did St. Tammany get all of the development and not St. Charles? I don't get it.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:04 pm to Tiger Prawn
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St Charles
Lot of it is swamp. Great parish though with a lot of history. Ormond is a nice neighborhood.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:05 pm to TIGERHOLD
Lake Pontchartrain makes a nice wall to keep out the barbarians from New Orleans.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:07 pm to TIGERHOLD
To many refineries for me. Who actually knows what is in that air
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:12 pm to TIGERHOLD
Swamps. You've got what's now called the LaBranche Wetlands and the Bonnet Carré Spillway west of Kenner. You've got what's now called the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in the east. You've got the Mississippi River to the south. And lots and lots of the areas around all of those are swamps, or at least historically were swamps, flooded, and were / are difficult to build well on.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:20 pm to Eightballjacket
quote:Are we seeing the phenomenon of "leakage" (a certain demo seeping out of the city limits into the suburbs) that we see in other metros? Or is the lake preventing that?
Lake Pontchartrain makes a nice wall to keep out the barbarians from New Orleans.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:36 pm to TIGERHOLD
Northshore isn’t ‘Cancer Alley’
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:37 pm to notiger1997
quote:
Have you ever been to Destrehan? Not a lot of dry land over there.
Destrehan Plantation belonged to my family in the early 1800s. CSB
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:40 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
quote:Cancer Alley isn't even Cancer Alley anymore
Northshore isn’t ‘Cancer Alley’
When I was a kid in the 80s no one wanted to live there. Now people are deserting BR for it
What could be worse than cancer...?
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:43 pm to LSShoe1030
quote:
To many refineries for me. Who actually knows what is in that air
Losers that downvote this kind of stuff are so pathetic. Just admit you’re a simp for a paycheck life the rest of us.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:44 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
quote:
Northshore isn’t ‘Cancer Alley’
Do you even Bogalusa?
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:49 pm to TIGERHOLD
St James Parish is probably good to move in. They are horrible to infrastructure/refinery companies. Getting them to approve a permit or reclassify ag land to industrial land is harder than Lizzo running a marathon tomorrow.
Posted on 5/13/24 at 12:54 am to TIGERHOLD
Are you specifically talking about rush hour commuting? The CBD to and from Destrehan involves some I-10 driving in Metairie and Kenner that is probably worse than dealing with the Causeway, for a lot of reasons. No way you are doing that drive in 25 minutes. I live uptown and sometimes it takes me 25 minutes to get home from the CBD.
This post was edited on 5/13/24 at 12:59 am
Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:10 am to Tall Tiger
The Northshore sucks. I would never move there.
Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:51 am to Kafka
quote:
Are we seeing the phenomenon of "leakage" (a certain demo seeping out of the city limits into the suburbs) that we see in other metros? Or is the lake preventing that?
A few things as to why the culcha has not, to date, ruined WEST ST. TAMMANY:
1) the lack of high density housing
2) the lack of public transportation
3) the culcha that works in E. St Tammany (Slidell) tends to work in the service industry in down town NOLA proper. It’s too far to drive to down town NOLA from West St Tammany. The juice not worth the squeeze.
4) thus the Lake is a nice natural barrier from invaders not unlike the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean to our country’s West and East.
/end thread
This post was edited on 5/13/24 at 7:52 am
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