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re: If you were mayor of BR, how would you revitalize it ?
Posted on 5/29/16 at 3:27 pm to IAmAquaman
Posted on 5/29/16 at 3:27 pm to IAmAquaman
BR has never been a great city and likely won't be in the foreseeable future, either.
That said I do think it has improved incrementally over the last 15 or so years, hopefully that continues
That said I do think it has improved incrementally over the last 15 or so years, hopefully that continues
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Posted on 5/29/16 at 3:32 pm to IAmAquaman
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BR is segregated. Private school people barely know any Public school kids, and vice versa. Maybe more interracial dating would ease tension. Look at Austin. NYC.
So what you are telling me is that black penises entering white vaginas, white penises entering asian vaginas, asian penises entering hispanic vagina, and hispanic penises entering black vaginas, is the reason that Austin is a nice city? If it means BR gets a loop I'll go have secks with as many asian chicks as I can.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 3:33 pm to WeeWee
Austin has a huge problem with minorities or creative types inability to afford housing anywhere in Travis County
This post was edited on 5/29/16 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 5/29/16 at 3:35 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Austin has a huge problem with minorities or creative types inability to afford housing anywhere in Travis County
Eventually even liberals run out of other ppl's money.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 3:37 pm to RDRGeaux09
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This thread pops up every few weeks and the answers are always the same, Make the black people leave [except the "good ones"}. Y'all just find various ways to the same tired old shite
I don't think the answer is to make anyone leave, black, redneck, or whoever.
I think the answer may be to make everybody work, either at a job they find, or a job they are given. They could use their wages to pay their bills for food, electricity, rent, Skoal, and whatnot.
If everybody was a taxpayer it would be a town with plenty.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 3:41 pm to WeeWee
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Eventually even liberals run out of other ppl's money.
I'm liberal and never had a problem. I don't know if you've spent any time in Austin but I don't think it's crazy for a community to be concerned about circumstances of their city changing to the point that all the things that made it desireable in the first place have been completely driven out.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 3:44 pm to Womski
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Amusement park
you obviously don't know that trash visit amusement parks. That's the revitalization you want?
An amusement park and NASCAR track combo in West Baton Rouge parish would be a good idea.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 3:55 pm to WeeWee
If Exxon were to leave, how soon would BR be over?
Posted on 5/29/16 at 4:28 pm to SG_Geaux
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1. Baton Rouge does not have the infrastructure for this.
It doesn't have railroad tracks running right down the middle of it? The most expensive part of the whole project is rebuilding the bonnet carre spillway bridge so trains can go faster than 10mph across it.
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Who wants to take a 1.5-2 hr train ride to NOLA when they could just drive in an hour.
There is no way in hell you can get from downtown BR to downtown NOLA during morning or evening rush hour in an hour and half. If they offer an express option (i.e. no in between stops) the train can make it in under an hour.
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The only ones that will use this daily will be the low life's, and it will have to be heavily subsidized.
Cars are heavily subsidized, and so are planes. So that argument is a dumb one. Plus the train has a much lower subsidy/mile than expanding the interstate and building loops, etc. However you are right that no one will ride it because Louisiana and especially BR ppl are too stupid to figure out how to use it.
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Barely anyone will use it to go from NOLA to BR.
IIRC there are ~12,000 ppl that commute from NOLA to BR. If the train gets over 3,000/day it breaks even and does not require subsidies. Also it is a commuter train that will stop in the major suburbs along the line. So like most commuter trains most riders will go from suburbs into city and back and not ride the whole end of the line.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 6:43 pm to IAmAquaman
Infrastructure. Build some roads.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 7:58 pm to IAmAquaman
Get the population on the north side to move to New Orleans.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 8:09 pm to IAmAquaman
1. Try to attract more employers in tech, manufacturing, and research/higher ed.
2. Try to get more direct domestic flights (JFK, DTW, MSP, BWI, and STL) out of BTR....and a nonstop to CDG out of MSY.
3. Invest in transportation infrastructure - including widening and improving Airline Highway, an interstate loop, and replacing CATS with a competent bus service.
4. Keep up the good work on improving downtown....but also branch out into small, focused areas in mid city, north Baton Rouge, and "old south" Baton Rouge as well.
2. Try to get more direct domestic flights (JFK, DTW, MSP, BWI, and STL) out of BTR....and a nonstop to CDG out of MSY.
3. Invest in transportation infrastructure - including widening and improving Airline Highway, an interstate loop, and replacing CATS with a competent bus service.
4. Keep up the good work on improving downtown....but also branch out into small, focused areas in mid city, north Baton Rouge, and "old south" Baton Rouge as well.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:02 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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I don't think it's crazy for a community to be concerned about circumstances of their city changing to the point that all the things that made it desireable in the first place have been completely driven out.
Seattle and other highly desirable cities are struggling with this. I love living in Seattle but wonder how young adults will be able to live in the city. Even with median salaries in six figures, affordable housing is a big challenge.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:13 pm to IAmAquaman
quote:you would actually do none of these things because the money isn't there and there is no way you could get around the croneyism to accoomplish nearly anything that you proposed
Attract more business
Model it after Austin, Raleigh, Charleston, LA, San fran, boston and atlanta. boulder
I would commandeer the police force and place more patrols in bad areas.
Change the education system and make more magnet schools and a school like Lusher.
Increase tourism with an amusement park, top golf, museum( pop culture, sports)
a huge go karting track and more parks .
Make a better zoo and an aquarium.
Attract technology businesses, new restaurants, and have a new headquarters here. Popeyes?
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:16 pm to IAmAquaman
Race war. winner race gets no taxes for a year
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:19 pm to WeeWee
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It doesn't have railroad tracks running right down the middle of it?
It has nothing to do with the railroad tracks.
Where will the train stop and how will people get around once they are off the train? The stellar bus and cab companies of EBR?
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:29 pm to SG_Geaux
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Where will the train stop and how will people get around once they are off the train? The stellar bus and cab companies of EBR?
1. Streetcar line: there's already one planned from the Capital to LSU. My ideal one would also stretch from the Capital to Exxon and the Airport (for commuting to work at LSU's largest employers), plus another line through Mid City which would run down Government Street from the River Center to the Old Entergy Building (which would be the train station for the BR-NOLA railroad) and then continue to BRCC, Independence Park, and maybe even Cortana.
2. Improved CATS service
3. Uber
4. Bikeshare, bike lanes, and new bike trails proposed by BREC which would connect most BREC properties (downtown, LSU Lakes, Perkins skate park, Mall of LA, Santa Maria, ect)
Also, remember that the commuter rail would have stops at Blue Bayou, at the hospital district around Essen or Bluebonnet, and right outside of downtown.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:40 pm to kingbob
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commuter rail
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Bikeshare, bike lanes, and new bike trails
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. Streetcar line:
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Improved CATS service
All components of first rate cities but EBR P doesn't have the tax base to support them to a meaningful scale (e.g., 200 miles of biking trails in King County, WA. BR will never make the list of top-tier cities, but Kip has done some great things for the city...hopefully the improvements can continue (especially downtown and Nicholson north of LSU).
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:48 pm to SG_Geaux
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Where will the train stop
Government street
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how will people get around once they are off the train?
That would be a problem right now, but since it is estimated to take 7 years from the day that the project is approved, BR has time to fix that situation. In 2025ish, BR could have a streetcar line and improved CATS service if it gets its shite together, and if it doesn't pull a LEO Express and partner with Uber.
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Unlike many start-ups I see, Leo Express was prepared when they originally launched with an iOS and Android app up and running. The train travel company currently offers a discount in partnership with Uber on their webpage and in their mobile app and is quite naturally trying to deepen their partnerships with Uber. “We’re investing a lot into our e-commerce technologies,” he said, “and Uber is a major partner in our future.” It’s clear to me how each will be ‘feeders’ for the other’s passengers—a perfect reciprocity.
Just as Uber is a ‘feeder’ platform for passengers on Leo Express’ trains, Novotný and team have other ideas too.
Like buses. Their own branded buses, that not only take their customers back and forth from their trains but in certain geographies such as the Ukraine to Slovakia where bus is the only efficient way, provide the main travel method. “We have eight buses currently,” he observed, “and we want to double our number of buses every year. After three or four months they break-even and start to contribute EBITDA. We’re even working on something we call ‘Leo Express’ Demand Response,’ which will have minivans cruising downtown like Super-shuttles here in America, picking up train passengers. This needs to be seamless with one ticket for the train, bus, minivan, Uber, whatever on both ends.”
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:56 pm to islandtiger
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All components of first rate cities but EBR P doesn't have the tax base to support them to a meaningful scale (e.g., 200 miles of biking trails in King County, WA. BR will never make the list of top-tier cities, but Kip has done some great things for the city...hopefully the improvements can continue (especially downtown and Nicholson north of LSU).
Not with that attitude it won't. Nothing is set in stone, and if BR had the right leadership that could change in 20 years or so. However, everybody in BR has the same attitude as you, and they are happy as long as they are ahead of Mississippi and can laugh at Jackson, so the whole city is f**ked.
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