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re: Baton Rouge no longer pursuing downtown-LSU tram
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:34 am to TheChosenOne
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:34 am to TheChosenOne
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That's the key. This is a long-term investment.
Yeah, but it's not an investment in the right part of Baton Rouge.
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Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:37 am to TheCaterpillar
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If SWB didn't frick it up, we would've gotten a good bit of federal money for it as well. My dad lives downtown (Beauregard Town) and that area is really starting to blow up. Having a strong downtown and connection to our major university through public transit would serve well in negotiations to attract corporations to move jobs here.
Broome takes incompetence to new heights. It seems that just about every week something else she's done that's stupid comes to light. As you said, if not for Broome's frick up, the taxpayers wouldn't have had to foot the bill for the tram, and this would be a moot point.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:39 am to Bunta
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This post is quite ironic.
So you think the primary function of public transportation is essentially a crime taxi?
Baton Rouge has minimal public transportation and no shortage of crime. How do they ever pull it off?
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:40 am to Powerman
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So you think the primary function of public transportation is essentially a crime taxi?
Baton Rouge has minimal public transportation and no shortage of crime. How do they ever pull it off?
Keep on digging bub.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:43 am to King of New Orleans
Sorry but the urban gondola is a mich higher priority.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:43 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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As you said, if not for Broome's frick up, the taxpayers wouldn't have had to foot the bill for the tram, and this would be a moot point.
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.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:46 am to King of New Orleans
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This post was edited on 10/1/20 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:46 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Keep on digging bub.
Nice retort
Care to back it up with something substantial?
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:48 am to TheCaterpillar
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The sad part of this is that I bet you got 10+ upvotes from people that thought it was a serious comment and had no clue it was a troll.
Around here it's not that crazy to think he was being serious
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:48 am to Powerman
I'll just tell you.
You replied seriously to the most obvious troll post.
End of little hijack
You replied seriously to the most obvious troll post.
End of little hijack
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:49 am to Jones
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I'll just tell you.
You replied seriously to the most obvious troll post.
Fair enough
With some of the ridiculousness that gets posted here it's tough to tell what is real and what isn't.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 9:54 am to c on z
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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.
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.
This post was edited on 2/27/18 at 9:59 am
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:04 am to bbap
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The tram was probably a waste of money too but replacing it with buses?
Why do people think the tram/subway experience is any better than a bus?
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:06 am to dixiechick
quote:There's a whole lot in Baton Rouge that's a money pit. At least this would have given the taxpayers a sense of return on investment. It would have been something to be proud of. You know, as opposed to all the other shite the city sinks its money on everyday that nobody knows, sees, or gives a shite about.
This had the potential to become a HUGE money pit for taxpayers
But, I forget. Batuhn Rewedge.
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.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:18 am to kingbob
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Yep, Broome missed the filing deadlines out of pure incompetence.
Not sure it’s as much incompetence as it is obstructionism.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:18 am to RealityTiger
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This post was edited on 10/1/20 at 12:13 pm
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 2/27/18 at 10:22 am to Powerman
That wasn't a joke. Not everyone is a busjw like you liberal baws
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:23 am to dixiechick
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We don’t another one. Subsidized riders, car sharing, bike sharing, charging stations... the tram is a never ending system of bleeding taxpayers dry.
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