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So I just want to make sure I have this straight

Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:45 am
Posted by RoosterCogburn585
Member since Aug 2011
1535 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:45 am
We are going to spend $20.5 million dollars for a train to go from Baton Rouge to New Orleans? How many dozens of people do they plan on using this train?
Posted by CollegeFBRules
Member since Oct 2008
24261 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:45 am to
Government never worries about the economics of a thing.
This post was edited on 8/18/23 at 10:46 am
Posted by LARancher1991
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2015
560 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:46 am to
Don't worry it'll never get built. They will spend all that money doing infrastructure studies. That train will happen about the same time as a bridge to by-pass Baton Rouge will happen and they been talking about that for at least 10 years.
Posted by Bourre
Da Parish
Member since Nov 2012
20276 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:52 am to
They need to use that money for the BR loop
Posted by ruzil
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2012
16915 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:55 am to
It would be the sub tropical version of snow piercer.

Cultcha Piercer
Posted by dakarx
Member since Sep 2018
6844 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:57 am to
quote:

We are going to spend $20.5 million dollars for a train


By the time they are done pilfering that fund there will not be enough left for one of these;

Posted by Flats
Member since Jul 2019
21776 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:57 am to
quote:

a train to go from Baton Rouge to New Orleans


Honest question: which destination has the best reasons to be against this?
Posted by Nosevens
Member since Apr 2019
10321 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:03 am to
Many delays and studies coming. Will turn out a billion dollars buttphuck by politicians and friends
Posted by bird35
Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
12179 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:07 am to
The Government couldn’t build five miles of train track for 21 million dollars.

This money will go to the committee, to study the transportation needs of the community.

Posted by CBLSU316
Far Right of Left
Member since Jun 2008
11392 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:16 am to
The only train im getting on would have to be leaving both of those cities and headed elsewhere.
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
20389 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:19 am to
It'll be nice for about five minutes before this:



Posted by TigerAxeOK
Where I lay my head is home.
Member since Dec 2016
24822 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:21 am to
quote:

We are going to spend $20.5 million dollars for a train to go from Baton Rouge to New Orleans? How many dozens of people do they plan on using this train?

Can you imagine being rail maintenance out there over the Atchafalaya? Wild.

Posted by StringMusic
Metaire, LA
Member since Dec 2006
621 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:24 am to
$20.5 million dollars would not buy much for this project. Maybe it would pay for a study or two.
Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
63525 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:25 am to
That’s a one room apartment in nyc.
Posted by Diamondawg
Mississippi
Member since Oct 2006
32250 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:13 pm to
quote:

We are going to spend $20.5 million dollars for a train to go from Baton Rouge to New Orleans? How many dozens of people do they plan on using this train?

Sounds more useful than the one Biden wanted to build in the ocean.
Posted by Pizza Dan
Member since Apr 2023
291 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:14 pm to
quote:

10 years


More like 25-30 years.
Posted by TigerSprings
Southeast LA
Member since Jan 2019
1586 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:16 pm to
quote:

BR loop


add another 980 million for that project.
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
51628 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 1:16 pm to
quote:

We are going to spend $20.5 million dollars for a train to go from Baton Rouge to New Orleans?


No, we aren't. While "we" may spend $20.5M on studies, I would be incredibly surprised if a dime of that went to actually purchasing a single component of a new train.
Posted by RedCali714
Costa Mesa, California
Member since Oct 2022
2027 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 6:40 pm to
Muh “equity” and “jobs.”

Having been involved in meetings regarding this rail line years ago, basically as an observer… New Orleans legislators and politicos think that the jobless rate among NOLA culture bearers is low because many don’t have vehicles and access to higher wage jobs in New Orleans like those that exist in the industrial corridor from NOLA to BR. If only they had the train to provide dependable, cost effective transportation, some of dem NOLA culture bearers might be able to get some a good paying plant jobs and contractor jobs etc… Never mind that also means they would have to care enough to apply for those jobs, pass a drug test and actually work. But I guess they’ll worry about that after the train line is completed.
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