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re: Baton Rouge no longer pursuing downtown-LSU tram
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:06 am to LouisianaLonghorn
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:06 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:12 am to AbitaFan08
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Baton Rouge is stuck in a constant loop. We want to progress as a city, but change is scary. We’re ready to change the city (St. George), but we’re going to stop progress. I think BR will become a better place over time. I truly do. But I think everywhere else will become better at a faster rate, leaving BR in the dust.
It all starts at the top with good city leadership. That is sorely lacking in Baton Rouge right now. The Metro Council is a clown show, and you guys all know how I feel about Madam Mayor Broome. City leaders in BR are not forward-thinking and/or progressive at all. They are reactive rather than proactive.
Change is scary, but it's necessary to keep a community from stagnating. The same goes for gentrification. As others have said, I feel that the tram would've helped further revitalize the area between LSU and downtown. It's no secret that private developers were waiting to see what would happen. It will be interesting to see if this affects their progress at all.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:13 am to Jones
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We hired Ed Orgeron to be the football coach
The branch of LSU that makes the most money
that just isnt even true.
not even close.
take a look at research dollars brought in with just Arts & Sciences.
or petro engineering.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:14 am to RougeDawg
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Unfortunately, the City can't afford it right now. That is just being financially responsible.
instead, they're going to throw the money at CATS....
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:18 am to Jones
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Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:19 am to AbitaFan08
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Baton Rouge is stuck in a constant loop.
I see what you did there.
a-hole.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:20 am to dixiechick
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How about you just pay for your own shite!!!
Thankfully, little by little, small-minded people like you are becoming the minority. Residents realize that you get what you pay for. If you want nice stuff, you have to pay for it. You sound like someone who thinks BR is just fine as it is, with its craptastic schools, crumbling infrastructure, and sky high crime rate. You vote no for every single capital improvement tax or bond issue, regardless of the good it will do in the long run in terms of improving the overall quality of life in BR.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:30 am to LSUBoo
I was wondering how no one picked up on that pun.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:58 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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Posted on 2/28/18 at 11:16 am to dixiechick
There is a difference between being small minded and fiscally responsible.
The small minded person fails to see the whole picture.
The fiscally minded person sees the full person, but realizes we can't afford it no matter how nice it is.
Think of it this way:
You have a family of 5 (stay at home wife and 3 kids under 10 years old). The family has one car: an old minivan with well over 100k miles on it. You want to get a pickup truck so you can pull a boat and take the kids camping and haul construction supplies to add an extra bedroom to the house, etc. A small minded person would oppose you buying said truck because you get by with the minivan you have. A fiscally responsible person would say that even though all of those things would be great, we can't afford the payments.
In City/Parish government, the fiscally responsible people are woefully in the minority, outnumbered by small-minded NIMBY's, OIMBY's (only in my back yard), political partisans, consultants and contractors with a vested interest in the project, and short-sighted yokles who view everything in a bubble.
The small minded person fails to see the whole picture.
The fiscally minded person sees the full person, but realizes we can't afford it no matter how nice it is.
Think of it this way:
You have a family of 5 (stay at home wife and 3 kids under 10 years old). The family has one car: an old minivan with well over 100k miles on it. You want to get a pickup truck so you can pull a boat and take the kids camping and haul construction supplies to add an extra bedroom to the house, etc. A small minded person would oppose you buying said truck because you get by with the minivan you have. A fiscally responsible person would say that even though all of those things would be great, we can't afford the payments.
In City/Parish government, the fiscally responsible people are woefully in the minority, outnumbered by small-minded NIMBY's, OIMBY's (only in my back yard), political partisans, consultants and contractors with a vested interest in the project, and short-sighted yokles who view everything in a bubble.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 2:12 pm to kingbob
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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.
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.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 2:14 pm to CptBengal
CATS already has the money.
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