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re: BR/NO leaders seek to become 'single metropolitan' statistical area
Posted on 4/26/15 at 2:40 pm to DBeaux225
Posted on 4/26/15 at 2:40 pm to DBeaux225
It could still happen but I believe the ship has sailed on that a long time ago, particularly under the felonious administration of Edwin fricking Edwards. Too far apart and a few slight cultural differences.
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Posted on 4/26/15 at 2:50 pm to DBeaux225
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BR/NO leaders seek to become 'single metropolitan' statistical area
Cool! Just like Tokyo and Yokohama.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 12:25 am to DBeaux225
The only consistent uninhabited gap is along US 61 between Sorrento and Gramercy for some 15 miles. We should name it TomBenson, LA for all he's done for the region. LaPlace would have to grow westward. Sorrento/Gonzales would have to expand eastward. Kenna can't grow no more, bra. "High-ish" speed commuter rail that Piyush rejected would've been a great start.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 12:32 am to BottomlandBrew
quote:c. 1980 I saw Woody Dumas (BR mayor) on a TV show predict by the year 2000 BR and NO would be just one metro area
BR/Nola/Northshore pretty much already operate as a large economic unit. I don't see it as an MSA just yet, but it's bound to happen eventually
Posted on 4/27/15 at 6:33 am to Old Sarge
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They are way too far apart for this in my opinion.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 6:44 am to NYNolaguy1
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Mass transit between NOLA and BR would help. It would also ease traffic getting in and out of both cities.
Not just mass, but fast. Bullet train type transportation. If they did that, I could see it working, but otherwise it's way too far apart to be realistic.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:10 am to DBeaux225
How long will it take to build a super loop around both cities?
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:11 am to Sandy_Ash
But the thing is that infill between the two cities means that there is an uninterrupted urban environment between them.
Merging the two into a generic "DFW" makes sense.
A few miles from the edge of BR's urban area there are sporadic towns, and long expanses of swamp and nothing for nearly 100 miles before you hit Kenner.
Hell, Lafayette and BR merging makes more sense, and if you want to stretch the meaning to allow NO-BR to be the same metro area, how can you exclude Lafayette and Hammond from the same definition?
Hell just make the entire SE region if LA to be in the same pot.
Merging the two into a generic "DFW" makes sense.
A few miles from the edge of BR's urban area there are sporadic towns, and long expanses of swamp and nothing for nearly 100 miles before you hit Kenner.
Hell, Lafayette and BR merging makes more sense, and if you want to stretch the meaning to allow NO-BR to be the same metro area, how can you exclude Lafayette and Hammond from the same definition?
Hell just make the entire SE region if LA to be in the same pot.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 8:03 am to DBeaux225
They should include Shreveport.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 8:28 am to rebeloke
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They should include Shreveport.
Already part the DFW metroplex
Posted on 4/27/15 at 8:38 am to DBeaux225
I guess the capital of this new metro area will be Lutcha
Posted on 4/27/15 at 8:52 am to Asgard Device
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NO and BR are 80 miles apart and neither are that huge. May as well throw Biloxi in there.
That's my Golden Triangle.
To be fair, Bay St. Louis is a bit of a bedroom community for NOLA.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 10:35 am to Bmath
Its not unprecedented and with a successful and FAST transit/train connecting the two cities, it could work.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 1:24 pm to DBeaux225
Looks like a BR+NOLA MSA would rank 29th nationally by population List of U.S MSAs. That might help justify sustaining the professional sports presence in NOLA (especially the Pelicans). Although I would like to think at that level of business people wouldn't be easily fooled by census accounting tricks.
As for the train, I'm guessing most people who currently commute from the BR area to NOLA on a regular basis for work are currently living on the SE side of EBR or AP. These people aren't likely to drive into downtown BR to catch the train to NOLA in the morning and have to deal with BR rush hour traffic (and the reverse in the evening).
As for the train, I'm guessing most people who currently commute from the BR area to NOLA on a regular basis for work are currently living on the SE side of EBR or AP. These people aren't likely to drive into downtown BR to catch the train to NOLA in the morning and have to deal with BR rush hour traffic (and the reverse in the evening).
Posted on 4/27/15 at 1:26 pm to DBeaux225
At the rate ascension is expanding that'll all be continuous with BR in another decade or 2. Problem is the area between laplace and kenner. Not a whole hell of a lot there aside from industry and a spillway.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 1:32 pm to BRIllini07
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Looks like a BR+NOLA MSA would rank 29th nationally by population
BRNOLA, the N is silent
Posted on 4/27/15 at 1:38 pm to Volvagia
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A few miles from the edge of BR's urban area there are sporadic towns, and long expanses of swamp and nothing for nearly 100 miles before you hit Kenner.
From the last exit with substance (Sorrento/Burnside) it's only around 40 miles to Kenner, and you have LaPlace in there.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 1:39 pm to Lloyd Christmas
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BRNOLA, the N is silent
BRILLIANT!!!!
Posted on 4/27/15 at 1:48 pm to Volvagia
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A few miles from the edge of BR's urban area there are sporadic towns, and long expanses of swamp and nothing for nearly 100 miles before you hit Kenner.
Hell, Lafayette and BR merging makes more sense
wut?
Posted on 4/27/15 at 1:51 pm to EmperorGout
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Phoenix and Tucson are a single metro area, and are separated by 100 miles of desert.
Yeahhhh.. no it's not.
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