re: BR/Nola rail line to be unveiled tonight

I bet this will be a worse version of the dallas/fort worth train and only run during the work week. you're not going to be able to get back to BR at 2 AM on Sunday.

Even if it were $1B, which is probably closer to the figure it should be, it would be worth it.

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exactly my first thought was "man look at louisiana getting something right getting something thatll do good for once.

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Adding stops in places that make no logical sense to help out political buddies is the right thing?

No wonder politicians look at the citizens as a pile of marks they can steal from consistently.

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I rarely pay to park to. I'll drive around looking to parallel.

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Driving around looking for a free spot is paying for parking. Time is valuable to me plus the gas and use of car doing that. Not to mention it seems like you have to deal with tickets and getting booted. That is time and money too.

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exactly my first thought was "man look at louisiana getting something right getting something thatll do good for once." than not even posts in people are shitting on it.

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Allow me to shite on it more.

This state is flat broke, and cannot even fix it’s own roads, and people want us to gamble money we don’t have to pay for more infrastructure we cannot afford to fund or maintain, because you have to maintain shite you know. And all of this in spite of the fact that it’s highly doubtful as to it being enough of a benefit to people that it will be utilized enough to fricking pay for itself.

BR to NOLA on weekends I get to a degree. NOLA to BR for football games I get. Politicians or government employees traveling to BR on occasion I get. I even get the occasional passenger that wants to see what it’s all about, but long term, when the newness wears off and people come face to face with how difficult it is to get around namely Baton Rouge without a vehicle, it’s going to end up being one big waste of taxpayer money... Hell surprise...there just aren’t enough people that this will appeal to to make a real difference and consistently fill up the train departures on the reg.


Louisiana’s problems aren’t because we don’t have a rail line from BR to NOLA, it because we are taxed out the arse as it is, and can’t even fund our own infrastructure as it is, and people who live here are so fricking blind or stupid that they think this is going to be any different than the roads they traverse every day. It’s not. I fricking guarantee you it’s not. It’s going to be Louisiana, and that’s the problem with all of this.

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It isn't a slow 189 car freight train it is a few passenger cars moving rapidly. F Metairians and thier opposition to progress.

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Interesting, someone who lives in New Orleans talking shite about people apposing progress...

Who said I was against it, and if you couldn't tell, I said it tongue in cheek..


I see they put that nice new fence along the tracks for ya'll along Airline. Something tells me this might have something to do with it...

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BR to NOLA on weekends I get to a degree. NOLA to BR for football games I get. Politicians or government employees traveling to BR on occasion I get. I even get the occasional passenger that wants to see what it’s all about, but long term, when the newness wears off and people come face to face with how difficult it is to get around namely Baton Rouge without a vehicle, it’s going to end up being one big waste of taxpayer money... Hell surprise...there just aren’t enough people that this will appeal to to make a real difference and consistently fill up the train departures on the reg.

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ok and wouldnt this essentially lessen traffic on the roads, if people use it.

Plus you are forgetting the shite load of people living between br and nola that use the freaking airport. Im assuming taking a train would be cheaper than parking your car at the airport over night.

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What is illogical about the stops?

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There are two planned stops in Baton Rouge:
Suburban and downtown.

Now, the suburban stop will be in one of three places (Blue Bayou, Mall of Lluisiana, or by the hospitals). That spot is ok, though the area around the station won’t be the least bit walkable.

The issue is the placement of the “downtown” station. It’s not downtown. It’s a mile outside of downtown at the old Entergy building on government street in the middle of the hood. It’s basically in no-man’s land. It’s not useful because it’s not in comfortable walking distance from anything downtown (hotels, offices, the capital, river center, etc). It’s also not on the proposed LSU/downtown tram project. It’s just out by its lonesome.

It’s idiotic. The main places people need to get to (LSU, Southern, Downtown, and BTR) aren’t on the route.