re: Add $1 to every LSU and Southern football game ticket to pay for BR to NOLA rail?

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This guy actually believes a rail line can be built from BR to NOLA for what is going to be at most $5,000,000?

100,000 per game at LSU
25,000 at Southern and that’s being generous. (2022 average 19,844)

8 home games per season max. Most likely 7 as both play neutral site games often.

5 years

125,000 X $1 X 8 X 5 = $5,000,000

The average cost to build a rail line is about $1,000,000 per mile. You couldn’t even build a line from the Capitol building to OLotL

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uh, $1 million per mile isn't anywhere near the real cost.

"A survey of North American light rail projects shows that costs of most LRT systems range from $15 million to over $100 million per mile."

"New cost figures issued in an update report from the California High-Speed Rail Authority show that the plan to build the 171-mile initial segment has shot up to a high of $35 billion" (which is $205 million per mile)

Nola thugs will be taking the train up here then driving back in our carjacked cars.

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by driving 30 min to a train station, waiting on a late train, dealing with the eventual rif raff on said train, then catching a uber another 30min to said office. Then repeating the steps at the end of the day. Sounds lovely

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30 minutes to a rail station wouldnt't make sense.

If a train would take you to the edge of campus on game days, I'd drive 15 min and park in a lot to take the train. Plus, at the end of the night, gives you extra time to rest on train ride back before driving home.

But please can it be a monorail?

Holy hell, Mack Cormier!?!?

Me and that dude used to kick it back and college, hadn’t heard that name in a while.

Not related to anything on topic just felt like I should mention that.

R I kidfing?

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Add $1 to every LSU and Southern football game ticket to pay for BR to NOLA rail

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through the 2027 season

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So about $1,500,000.

That won't pay for the study needed to consider a rail line of that length.

If you really wanted something like that, you would need to add a $0.05 per gallon fuel tax to East Baton Rouge Parish, Orleans Parish, and Jefferson Parish.

Why would I want people from New Orleans to be able to get to Baton Rouge easier? And who the hell wants to go to NOLA so bad anymore that they need a train?

It’s another scam.

Only if there's a one time special spur that's for the inaugural trip. Load all the politicians and BR & NO mayors and then onto the spur that dead ends in the Atchafalaya Swamp. Remove the spur them move on.