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re: BR/Nola rail line to be unveiled tonight
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:34 pm to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:34 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Then WTF do you mean by "criminals take advantage of opportunity"????
Exactly what it means. You're a criminal, you see a bunch of drunk fricks that missed the last train back to BR or to NOLA, wherever. I bet you'd make sure they find a safe place?
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Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:34 pm to TH03
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I've been weighing the pros and cons of moving back to Baton Rouge from Nashville for a couple years now and this would be a big "pro" for my wife and I.
Not enough to sway us, but certainly would be a good thing about Baton Rouge when weighing options.
You’re crazy.
The cons outweigh the pros of BR so far, but here are the BR pros:
1. This is the big one. Close to both our families. We have aging parents and are expecting our first child in September. Our siblings and parents can help with the kids and we get to be around our folks while they are retired, but still young enough to get around and enjoy life.
2. Real estate is HALF as much. I can get a forever home with a big yard in a good area in Baton Rouge for what I pay for a townhome in the gentrified ghetto in Nashville. Whatever we’d save on sending our kids to public school in Nashville is lost in the housing prices and cost of living.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:36 pm to ThatMakesSense
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Exactly what it means. You're a criminal, you see a bunch of drunk fricks that missed the last train back to BR or to NOLA, wherever. I bet you'd make sure they find a safe place?
Seriously, this makes a lot less sense than you could ever believe.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:40 pm to Tigeralum2008
Need moar studies!
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:40 pm to fightin tigers
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Seriously, this makes a lot less sense than you could ever believe
OK, spend 260MM. I don't really care.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:42 pm to ThatMakesSense
It will never happen, but all of your reasoning so far is not the reason why. It's not even a good argument as to why it shouldn't.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:43 pm to ThatMakesSense
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You're a criminal, you see a bunch of drunk fricks that missed the last train back to BR or to NOLA, wherever. I bet you'd make sure they find a safe place?
#1, WTF does the train have to do with drunk kids being irresponsible?
#2, what are these drunks doing now? Getting in their cars and driving back drunk? yeah, that's a good idea.
So we should not do something that could be huge for our state, because a few people might get drunk, miss the train ride home, and sleep at UPT?
Have you been to UPT? people sleep there all the time waiting for the next train or bus. Again... not really crime happening there.
What else you got?
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:43 pm to ellishughtiger
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here’s a reason for someone to visit BR for a day or two. If you travel the world you would know a majority of foreigners has heard or Nola but you get a lot of blank stares when you mention BR.
I’ve lived in Baton Rouge my entire life. There ain’t shite here to do besides LSU stuff, the state capital, and eat/drink (which can be done in NOLA with better food and drink).
Baton Rouge is not a tourist destination, even for a day
Is someone going to do 6 hours of train travel from NOLA for a half day of the state capital and LSU?
I just don’t see the market for it at that price tag, at a time when we’re having to hack higher education just to balance the state budget.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:46 pm to fightin tigers
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It will never happen, but all of your reasoning so far is not the reason why. It's not even a good argument as to why it shouldn't.
The most obvious reasons why it won't happen is because LA is too retarded for it to be sustainable. Crime and unsavory types will make it such. Will be a novelty, until the the good paying folk realize it's not worth the hassle.
Add in that maybe 1/1000 tourists gives a dick what is between NOLA and BR, it will turn into a homeless paradise.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:46 pm to TheCaterpillar
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The cons outweigh the pros of BR so far, but here are the BR pros: 1. This is the big one. Close to both our families. We have aging parents and are expecting our first child in September. Our siblings and parents can help with the kids and we get to be around our folks while they are retired, but still young enough to get around and enjoy life. 2. Real estate is HALF as much. I can get a forever home with a big yard in a good area in Baton Rouge for what I pay for a townhome in the gentrified ghetto in Nashville. Whatever we’d save on sending our kids to public school in Nashville is lost in the housing prices and cost of living.
The family thing would be the only draw. Could they not move to Nashville (or are they not willing)?
You'd have to send your kids to private school in BR. You probably don't have to do that in Nashville.
Also, why don't you look at the suburbs of Nashville? I know that it's a "It City", but at it's still Nashville and not NYC, SF. There has to be affordable suburbs.
Factor in state income taxes -- I think you'd be coming out on the short end. That said, you can never undervalue family.
This post was edited on 6/19/18 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:47 pm to The Pirate King
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I just don’t see the market for it at that price tag, at a time when we’re having to hack higher education just to balance the state budget.
Pretty much the only way this happens is if it's fully funded by the feds and/or private money.
No state money is going to be available for this. The North LA and rural legislators will make sure of that.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:52 pm to ThatMakesSense
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Add in that maybe 1/1000 tourists gives a dick what is between NOLA and BR, it will turn into a homeless paradise.
No one goes on plantation tours.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:52 pm to LSUbase13
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That said, you can never undervalue family.
This. And no they wouldn't move. No way, no how. And I wouldn't ask them to.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 4:53 pm to LSUbase13
frick that, I’d buy a plane before moving to BR.
Luckily my parents and in laws both got the hell out.
Luckily my parents and in laws both got the hell out.
This post was edited on 6/19/18 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 6/19/18 at 5:12 pm to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 6/19/18 at 5:14 pm to Dizz
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Do the tracks not allow for an LSU stop?
They do not. This is the set of tracks that goes down perkins and then follows Airline down into New Orleans.
The tracks by LSU (that actually go through downtown BR) are the ones that follow the River. They didn't want to use those because the chemical plants would pitch a fit having people riding through their plants every day.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 5:15 pm to Tigeralum2008
If they say it will cost $260 million, you can double that. It would be a collasal waste of money.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 5:19 pm to TheCaterpillar
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People in the South are so anti-mass transit it cracks me up.
This would be awesome if done correctly. They would just need it to have a reliable schedule, be affordable, and be secure.
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if done correctly
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in the South
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correctly
Not going to happen.
This would work if it could make a one way trip from downtown Baton Rouge to Downtown New Orleans take 90 minutes or less.
What it will actually do is take 150 minutes and drop people off a mile outside of downtown Baton Rouge.
This is nothing but a scam perpetrated by the railroad company to trick the taxpayers into paying to upgrade their dilapidated trellis bridge over the Spillway so that the railroad doesn't have to shell out the coin to fix it themselves.
What they should do (to make it useful) is rather than have it stop in no man's land at the Electric Depot, have it loop around the Capital Lake where the Airline tracks connect to the River Road tracks and put the station next to the LASM and then put another station on Skip Bertman Drive right by Tiger f&%king stadium!
Then, upgrade the existing track to high speed, cut out the useless stops in Gonzales and LaPlace, and get the whole transit time from LSU to the CBD to no more than 100 minutes and you've got your downtown tram AND your commuter rail done in one project where they both connect!
This post was edited on 6/19/18 at 5:24 pm
Posted on 6/19/18 at 5:20 pm to kingbob
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hey didn't want to use those because the chemical plants would pitch a fit having people riding through their plants every day.
That can't be the reason because these tracks go through Shell-Notco, Valero & Marathon.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 5:25 pm to T
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That can't be the reason because these tracks go through Shell-Notco, Valero & Marathon.
It's also a lot longer distance because it's hugging the river. The Airline set is more of a straight line.
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