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Posted on 12/10/15 at 12:40 am to JBeam
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Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:45 pm to Napoleon
Good news! Looks like gondolas are STILL ON THE TABLE!
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Imagine a city where transit is aerial—where people move about not by airplane but by gondolas suspended above the ground and propelled by cables.
This is the vision the Baton Rouge Area Foundation has for Baton Rouge, where traffic congestion has become part of daily life for commuters.
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Haydel also says the technology can help address Baton Rouge’s traffic congestion.
For example, the Baton Rouge Health District—bordered by Bluebonnet Boulevard, Perkins Road, Interstate 10 and Essen Lane—would be one of the areas under consideration for an aerial gondola.
Haydel says a gondola there is a logical choice as commuters working and moving about in the district could “park and fly.” Still, nothing has been set in stone.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:54 pm to The Boat
Gondolas? Now they're thinkin'!
Probably have a better chance of crossing the river with this guy on a Friday afternoon than anything else currently available.
Probably have a better chance of crossing the river with this guy on a Friday afternoon than anything else currently available.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:00 pm to GeauxColonels
They better be air conditioned.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:01 pm to JBeam
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Urban gondolas in Baton Rouge? BRAF considering it.
What's the plan when a group of youths rapes someone from landing spot to landing spot?
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Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:02 pm to GeauxColonels
Great!
I've always wanted to get robbed while dangling from a wire 50 ft above the ground!
I've always wanted to get robbed while dangling from a wire 50 ft above the ground!
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:06 pm to upgrayedd
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I've always wanted to get robbed while dangling from a wire 50 ft above the ground!
Don't worry. You will be perfectly safe. The gondolas will be gun free zones.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:15 pm to JBeam
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We can’t really fix the traffic problems...by pouring more concrete
There are plenty of studies that prove this. It takes too long for major highway infrastructure projects to be completed. By the time they are completed the population has grown that they are not big enough or people deem that path better so more people jam into it.
There needs to be more creative ways. My ideas:
- Employers adding work from home as a benefit. Technology allowing for less travel is ultimately the answer.
- Four Ten Hour workdays. Some companies do Monday and some do Friday.
- Fees for all cars involved in wrecks in baton rouge to help fund BR traffic solutions.
- BR Police, etc to be tracked on how long it takes to clear wrecks from interstate and some general standards to be set on time to clear wrecks.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:45 pm to JBeam
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Baton Rouge Area Foundation President and CEO John Davies said Wednesday that the solution to the city’s traffic problems is not adding more roads
Good God, you people in LA lead by some real idiots.
This post was edited on 6/7/16 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 6/7/16 at 6:50 pm to Topwater Trout
Any of the mayoral candidates backing this travesty for the taxpayers hopefully commits political suicide.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:01 pm to JBeam
I'd sure hate to be in one those when it's falls because it was built by the lowest bidder.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:24 pm to JBeam
I don't see why so many are against this, it's actually fairly genius. A large gondola can hold 200 people, and there could be stops spread out along the outer skirt of downtown Baton Rouge like a spider web all meeting in several centralized locations. The towers and cables are fairly cheap compared to roadway, and can traverse over bodies of water, hills, lowlands, and levees much cheaper than building bridges and excavating the land. Have large parking areas at the outskirts of the city at each beginnig point and have 90% of the gondolas running into the city during the morning rush hours, 90% of them running from the inside of the city outwards during the afternoon. Could alleviate tons of traffic in largely populated, condensed downtown areas like New Orleans and BR. Imagine parking in Slidell at a large parking lot then riding the gondola into downtown NO, instead of facing the hassle of traffic along the interstate and surface roads downtown. Would make life easier for thousands, especially if the pick-up spots were strategically placed to alleviate the most popular interstate routes into downtown.
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Something like this, where the gondola cables ran on a straight to-and-from basis and didn't intertwine with eachother or move throughout the city, only drop off and head back to the original pickup point. From there, bus stations as well as cabs would be placed around each drop off point, for those that need to get to places further than a few blocks away.
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Something like this, where the gondola cables ran on a straight to-and-from basis and didn't intertwine with eachother or move throughout the city, only drop off and head back to the original pickup point. From there, bus stations as well as cabs would be placed around each drop off point, for those that need to get to places further than a few blocks away.
This post was edited on 6/7/16 at 8:40 pm
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:39 pm to JBeam
Imagine what exciting adventures await victims in a closed gondola with groups of BR's law-abiding citizenry in-between stops? Hunting over a baited field.
Plus the interior will smell and look like a third world urban bus after about a month of use.
Ridership will quickly approach zero.
Put an elevated throughway above the existing I-12/10 footprint. Put a new bridge just south of the existing I-10 bridge. Get the East/West through traffic off of ground level.
Plus the interior will smell and look like a third world urban bus after about a month of use.
Ridership will quickly approach zero.
Put an elevated throughway above the existing I-12/10 footprint. Put a new bridge just south of the existing I-10 bridge. Get the East/West through traffic off of ground level.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:42 pm to Sev09
the only solution is to have less people. build a wall, improve the economy, make BR like switzerland
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:45 pm to JBeam
BRAF is really good at spending other people's money. Some of the land deals they've benefitted from are pretty eye-opening when you look at the government footing 100% of the costs, rental income unclear, people on payroll, tenants with special deals, real estate agents that are brother in laws of state politicians, etc.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:52 pm to Asgard Device
Yep. Who elected BRAF? Why does John Davies get to decide some bullshite idea like this? I guess they'll get CATS to run it too.
This is one of the dumbest thing I have heard in a long time!
This is one of the dumbest thing I have heard in a long time!
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:03 pm to JBeam
I don't think this would work at all.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:04 pm to Halftrack
What we really need is a BR gondola loop.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 9:07 pm to JBeam
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“We can’t really fix the traffic problems...by pouring more concrete, it just exacerbates the problem,
This is actually true based on a lot of traffic research. People fill the capacity of highways and move further out.
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