re: This is just as true for any BR transit effort

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You put a commuter rail between Nola and Baton Rouge and people will use it CONSTANTLY. You allow stops in Prairieville, Dutchtown, get a spur from Walker and Denham and allow people to move into and out of the city as an alternative mode of mass transit that's reliable and fairly inexpensive, then it'll get used.

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Doubt it.

1. Why would people take a 2hr train ride when they can drive it in an hour?

2. Are they going to drive to all these stations? They sure won't be taking a bus.

3. No one is going to travel to any of those places from New Orleans, except maybe downtown BR, because of the absence of public transit.