re: Baton Rouge no longer pursuing downtown-LSU tram

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Please tell me what purpose would that tram serve?

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Make people actually want to get out of their damn residence and do something. I know this is a foreign concept to many in this city, but lots of places do it, and it causes cities to thrive as a result. Traffic, parking, and lack of night life are all issues that cause people to not want to venture out, and things that a reasonable transportation system can remedy. BUT boy do I know how BR is reluctant to anything they aren’t familiar with. Our reference to it is ghetto, and it doesnt actually have to get ghetto. It can be very nice if you take interest in it. BR’s biggest obstacle is in transitioning from small sleepy southern town to a big city. The growth isn’t going to stop so you can catch up, but if you do nothing about it, you’re going to get smoked. Exhibit A... TRAFFIC in this city. It’s eating this city alive and is the number 1 reason why people just don’t want to do any thing.

And it’s not just to support drunk college kids, but it’s building for much more growth in that area, which should by all rational thinking due to it’s proximity to downtown, be bustling with life, and yet it’s dead as a damn door nail.