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re: Baton Rouge no longer pursuing downtown-LSU tram
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:09 am to TheChosenOne
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:09 am to TheChosenOne
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When Houston added the light rail between downtown and the medical center
So we are going to compare Houston situation with Baton Rouge's situation?
Come on man!!!
200 thousand people versus millions.
BR's economy versus Houston's economy.
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Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:18 am to doubleb
This was just one part of a wider plan to tie NOLA and BR together, basically connecting MSY with all the most important places in those two cities like the CBD (walking distance to Harrah’s, the Superdome, and the French Quarter as well as on the streetcar line to go anywhere else), Tiger Stadium, Zyphr Field, Blue Bayou, the hospitals, and Downtown BR (state capital, centroplex, 3rd street bars, 13th gate, riverboat casinos).
BR has a metropolitan area of around 800k with NOLA over a million.
The problem was they chose a rail line that doesn’t go to downtown BR. They should have made a spur of the tram go from the BR/NOLA station at the electric depot to the downtown line.
You would have most of the state’s tourism draws all connected via rail to the state’s largest airport. Travelors could get anywhere they needed to go without an uber, taxi, or rental car. That would be huge for tourism. The BR/NOLA train was worth it just for the rail link between the CBD and MSY alone.
BR has a metropolitan area of around 800k with NOLA over a million.
The problem was they chose a rail line that doesn’t go to downtown BR. They should have made a spur of the tram go from the BR/NOLA station at the electric depot to the downtown line.
You would have most of the state’s tourism draws all connected via rail to the state’s largest airport. Travelors could get anywhere they needed to go without an uber, taxi, or rental car. That would be huge for tourism. The BR/NOLA train was worth it just for the rail link between the CBD and MSY alone.
This post was edited on 2/27/18 at 10:21 am
Posted on 2/28/18 at 2:27 am to doubleb
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So we are going to compare Houston situation with Baton Rouge's situation?
Doesn't have to be. Build that area up and it would attract more people to live on that side of town.
That's all anyone is saying.
And in my opinion would help attract more students if the surrounding area was nice. It should be being built up that way instead of it keep going further and further down Burbank.
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