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re: Baton Rouge issues $10M bond to start financing $170M downtonwn-LSU tram.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:05 am to GeauxxxTigers23
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:05 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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downtonwn-LSU tram.
Will never be built
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They need to level that fricking ghetto between downtown and LSU first.
Sure just run a bunch of people out of their homes. I mean this tram is obviously more important than a family's home.
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Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:08 am to lsu13lsu
The current one is too far and inconvenient to compete with the Audubon Zoo for school groups from Ascension and Livingston.
It also lacks the classroom space to handle more school groups.
The neighborhood barely frequents it.
It needs to expand to build a new elephant habitat to meet the new federal standards to get their elephants back.
I would love to see it adjacent to LSU along the streetcar line or at the current site of the City Park Golf Course where the art museum and new children's museum is
It also lacks the classroom space to handle more school groups.
The neighborhood barely frequents it.
It needs to expand to build a new elephant habitat to meet the new federal standards to get their elephants back.
I would love to see it adjacent to LSU along the streetcar line or at the current site of the City Park Golf Course where the art museum and new children's museum is
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:10 am to kingbob
City park is a good location as well. That is 50 acres.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:15 am to YeahYeah
They don't own, they rent Section 8 to tenets who turn around and rob and murder the members of the surrounding communities.
Plus, much of that area is blighted properties and vacant lots. This will change all of that, and I've already seen entire blocks turned around just in the last 5 years.
Plus, much of that area is blighted properties and vacant lots. This will change all of that, and I've already seen entire blocks turned around just in the last 5 years.
This post was edited on 6/23/16 at 10:17 am
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:27 am to lsu13lsu
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BREC gets too much of our money. The Baton Rouge Zoo sucks. Investing $110M in a zoo seems like a terrible investment. If people in Baton Rouge wanted a zoo they would go to the one we have and it would currently be decent. It isn't that far of a drive and it has never made me feel unsafe as far as area. I don't feel like people really see how much money we pay to BREC. It is ridiculous. Our government shouldn't be in the golf and water park and zoo business.
BREC projects may be the most tangible thing we in EBR spend our tax money on. More parks = better quality of life and make people want to live here.
I would gladly give them double what I pay if it meant more parks, trails, public facilities, etc. It also helps my property value when they put these near my house.
This post was edited on 6/23/16 at 10:29 am
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:29 am to TigerRob20
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More parks = better quality of life and make people want to live here.
Parks are only good for 3 groups:
1. Teenagers needing a place to make out
2. Parents with small children
3. Homeless people looking to get high
If you're not one of these, no one cares about parks. Which one are you?
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:33 am to AbitaFan08
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Parks are only good for 3 groups:
1. Teenagers needing a place to make out
2. Parents with small children
3. Homeless people looking to get high
If you're not one of these, no one cares about parks. Which one are you?
I don't fit into any of those groups and I utilize BREC parks probably once a week on average.
Kickball, softball, walking my dog around the loop at Perkins Rd. park, going to the dog parks on either Dalrymple or Burbank, etc.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:33 am to AbitaFan08
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Parks are only good for 3 groups:
1. Teenagers needing a place to make out
2. Parents with small children
3. Homeless people looking to get high
If you're not one of these, no one cares about parks. Which one are you?
And this line of thinking is why Baton Rouge doesn't have nice things. Every major city in the US has nice public parks that the residents use
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:36 am to AbitaFan08
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Parks are only good for 3 groups: 1. Teenagers needing a place to make out 2. Parents with small children 3. Homeless people looking to get high If you're not one of these, no one cares about parks. Which one are you?
This post was edited on 6/23/16 at 10:36 am
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:37 am to AbitaFan08
What about the bikers and the joggers?
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:38 am to AbitaFan08
Maybe you should learn more about our park system and then use it.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:38 am to kingbob
The best we can expect on Nicholson between LSU and the Bridge is more apartments with a few convenient stores and shite. Basically the same shite they've built on Burbank and the area south of Walk-ons. So don't y'all get too excited, cause they ain't gonna reinvent the wheel here. Don't buy into the hype. Look at what has been done already to see what will be done.
PS Increasing the parking fees to pay for the tram is stupid. It creates a greater hurdle for people who don't live at LSU and want to drive downtown. "Not only do I have to drive out of my way to go to an average restaurant (that I can also find something better closer to home), I also have to walk a hundred yards to get to it and then I have to pay a higher parking fee for the privilege of it all." Well, frick you, frick you and frick you. (And by you I mean the dumbass that came up with plan.)
PSS This is why the need to attract college students, because no one with a fully developed brain would fall for such BS.
PS Increasing the parking fees to pay for the tram is stupid. It creates a greater hurdle for people who don't live at LSU and want to drive downtown. "Not only do I have to drive out of my way to go to an average restaurant (that I can also find something better closer to home), I also have to walk a hundred yards to get to it and then I have to pay a higher parking fee for the privilege of it all." Well, frick you, frick you and frick you. (And by you I mean the dumbass that came up with plan.)
PSS This is why the need to attract college students, because no one with a fully developed brain would fall for such BS.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:39 am to TigerRob20
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Which one are you?
So you're a Mexican homeless teenager who looks as though he just finished doing drugs and hooking up, which will in all likelihood will produce a small child?
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:41 am to AbitaFan08
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So you're a Mexican homeless teenager who looks as though he just finished doing drugs and hooking up, which will in all likelihood will produce a small child?
Holy shite, you hit the nail on the head.
And STFU. I think you'd use the BREC parks, but you live in Bastan....
This post was edited on 6/23/16 at 10:43 am
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:42 am to Wasp
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Maybe you should learn more about our park system and then use it.
My parents warned me that there would come a time that I was peer pressured into doing drugs. It appears that moment has arrived.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:44 am to TigerRob20
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I think you'd use the BREC parks, but you live in Bastan....
Even when typing you suck at doing a Boston accent.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:53 am to Langland
Actually, the developments more resemble Perkins Rowe or the renovated commerce building with retail on the bottom and then 5 stories of residential or office space above.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:01 am to kingbob
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Actually, the developments more resemble Perkins Rowe or the renovated commerce building with retail on the bottom and then 5 stories of residential or office space above.
You are right about that, it will definitely be a lot of mixed use development.
There are going to be a lot of people working and living around there in the next 5-10 years, and as I said previously, this is the catalyst for that.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:15 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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I recall that developers bought several tracts of land along Nicholson between LSU and downtown. As of yet, not much has been done.
This is why....
LINK
Posted on 6/23/16 at 1:17 pm to captainahab
But I go to school on daddy's money. Riding a tram to go downtown would be so cool to party. So what if it costs $110 million? I am moving back to Houston where the real jobs are after I graduate anyway.
It just seems so cool to have this while I am here dude.
It just seems so cool to have this while I am here dude.
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