re: Baton Rouge no longer pursuing downtown-LSU tram

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The source of at least 70% (the rest is Valley Park, that one section 8 complex in Tigerland, Downtown East, and Gardere), and possibly as much as 90%, of the crime around campus, downtown, the Garden District, and Southdowns originates in that neighborhood between downtown and LSU. By converting that to students, you essentially eliminate the primary source of crime that actually impacts contributing members of society and tourists to BR.

Developing flood-prone, swampy Burbank does nothing for you.

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You really believe a Tram from LSU to Downtown is going to change the area from the levee to Dalrymple and the lakes and from LSU to Downtown?

And we have private money building 100s of units, retail shopping centers and developing unimproved land, but that's bad????

So you have to believe in big government, and that govt. is there to pick and choose winners because that's what this is all about.