re: Baton Rouge no longer pursuing downtown-LSU tram

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Considering how BR never applied for federal funding for this project in the first place, I’m not sure how taxpayers are still being impacted.

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Yep, Broome missed the filing deadlines out of pure incompetence.

I think there is some very limited circumstances where this tram could have worked:
It doesn’t share travel lanes with cars
It runs frequently enough late at night and on game days
It has convenient stops but not so many as to make it take too long
It is only the first leg in a much larger planned system that eventually connects far more of town via sfreet car (like the airport, electric depot, and LaBerge)

I had zero faith in BR designing and running it in such a manner.

I actually really want to see the BR/NOLA project happen, but not where the taxpayer has to pick up the cost of replacing that ancient tressle bridge over the spillway. The railroad should be responsible for that. The whole project was a way to scam the taxpayer out of $300 million to pay to replace that delapidated structure. If the railroad was serious about upgrading the tressle at its own cost, I would be ok with government paying for the improved crossings and stations.