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When will BR just admit that CATS is a total failure and always will be.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:17 am
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:17 am
What a surprise, CATS may have violated state laws, fails to collect $150,000 in revenue. Your tax dollars at work BR.
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Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:19 am to LSUDAN1
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When will BR just admit that CATS is a total failure and always will be.
I don't know anyone that thinks of CATS as anything else besides a massive failure/clusterfrick.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:30 am to LSUDAN1
Can we just get a streetcar system already?
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:32 am to LSUDAN1
NEVER!!
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:34 am to LSUDAN1
CATS is what it is. An underused system utilized almost entirely by the poor, and funded almost entirely by the middle-class to wealthy property owners of BR who just got a substantial increase in their propery taxes voted FOR primarily by those who pay little to no propery taxes.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:35 am to LSUDAN1
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$79,496 of uncollected bus fare revenue, $78,648 of uncollected bus fare revenue
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:41 am to Alt26
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CATS is what it is. An underused system utilized almost entirely by the poor, and funded almost entirely by the middle-class to wealthy property owners of BR who just got a substantial increase in their propery taxes voted FOR primarily by those who pay little to no propery taxes.
and this is why st george happens
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:56 am to upgrayedd
I don't ride buses, but I suspect you pay when you get on. If someone doesn't pay, why would they let them on?
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:57 am to LSUDAN1
This is what you get when you let the inmates run the asylum
Posted on 2/24/14 at 11:59 am to Hammertime
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I don't ride buses, but I suspect you pay when you get on. If someone doesn't pay, why would they let them on?
I've gotten on a CATS bus without flashing my LSUID or paying at all. I don't recall anyone paying to ride the handful of times I actually rode those buses.
ETA- if I am allowed to stereotype, I'll say that some people looked way more like 30-60 year old bums than LSU students.
This post was edited on 2/24/14 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 2/24/14 at 12:52 pm to LSUDAN1
They have a dedicated tax stream going to CATS. Could the city hire a private company to handle that for them like LSU did?
CATS lost the lucrative LSU contract because they were a poor service provider. They suck at providing the service that they exist to perform.
Baton Rouge needs public transit.....they don't need CATS.
CATS lost the lucrative LSU contract because they were a poor service provider. They suck at providing the service that they exist to perform.
Baton Rouge needs public transit.....they don't need CATS.
This post was edited on 2/24/14 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 2/24/14 at 12:55 pm to Hammertime
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If someone doesn't pay, why would they let them on?
Is this a serious question?
Posted on 2/24/14 at 12:56 pm to Ignignot
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and this is why st george happens
It's one of two reasons I can understand supporters of St. George.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 12:57 pm to LSUDAN1
Never.....it's an entitlement program. Can't get rid of those.....
Makes too much sense to do that!
Makes too much sense to do that!
This post was edited on 2/24/14 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 2/24/14 at 12:58 pm to LSUDAN1
Baton Rouge would have to check with Austin before they would get rid of it.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 1:00 pm to Ignignot
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and this is why st george happens
Can guarantee you one way or another St. George will still pay something for CATS...it will be a deal behind closed doors!
Posted on 2/24/14 at 1:05 pm to Hopeful Doc
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I've gotten on a CATS bus without flashing my LSUID or paying at all. I don't recall anyone paying to ride the handful of times I actually rode those buses.
Are you sure you weren't on the LSU buses that they contracted out from CATS a while back? I have been on the BR buses some and have never seen anyone just walk on.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 1:49 pm to BottomlandBrew
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Are you sure you weren't on the LSU buses that they contracted out from CATS a while back? I have been on the BR buses some and have never seen anyone just walk on.
It was Aug/Sept of 07, I got on a bus at Highland near the north gates which took me to the Government St Bus Depot, since I didn't quite understand how the bus lines worked (and was stranded on campus with still-passed-out friends after being dropped off by someone I didn't really know...I was trying to make it back to one of the Nicholson complexes). I cannot say with certainty that it was not an LSU bus contracted out by CATS.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 1:56 pm to Hopeful Doc
We can easily recover the money, lets just create another tax!
Also, shite like thisis the reason CATS continues to fail
Also, shite like thisis the reason CATS continues to fail
This post was edited on 2/24/14 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 2/24/14 at 1:59 pm to Ignignot
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CATS is what it is. An underused system utilized almost entirely by the poor, and funded almost entirely by the middle-class to wealthy property owners of BR who just got a substantial increase in their propery taxes voted FOR primarily by those who pay little to no propery taxes.
and this is why st george happens
FWIW, a lot of the would-be St George is served by CATS yet did not vote on it in the recent election and did not see property taxes go up.
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