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re: BR/Nola rail line to be unveiled tonight
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:47 pm to Dizz
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:47 pm to Dizz
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Do the tracks not allow for an LSU stop? You would think a stop near or on campus during school would get a lot of use and would be huge for home games.
I didn’t read the entire article, but it looks like they’ll be using the Kansas City Southern Railway track. That track is a bit far away from LSU for any walkabilty. If they used the Canadian National Railway track, that would have been perfect for LSU.
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Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:47 pm to TheCaterpillar
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I'd guess 6am-10pm? Maybe 6 trips each way/day.
Dude, that would be perfect for day trips to Nola
Sure, for mature grown ups..but then you have the idiot kids who will leave from BR..get to NOLA...miss the 10pm back to BR, be too cheap to pay for a hotel and sleep/puke at the train station.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:48 pm to ThatMakesSense
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it's not an Uber Train.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:48 pm to c on z
I have no doubt if this was built that LSU would introduce a shuttle system for students/faculty and maybe even contract something for gamedays. That would help parking if all of the out of towners rode the train in and got dropped off by bus.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:49 pm to TheCaterpillar
Just saying, each one of your points don't hold water when actually applied.
90 minutes of driving vs 60 minutes of dead stop traffic?
Plenty of commuter trains have free parking lots for their commuters, government encourages it. Owning a $2k beater just to get a couple miles to the station.
90 minutes of driving vs 60 minutes of dead stop traffic?
Plenty of commuter trains have free parking lots for their commuters, government encourages it. Owning a $2k beater just to get a couple miles to the station.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:49 pm to ThatMakesSense
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Sure, for mature grown ups..but then you have the idiot kids who will leave from BR..get to NOLA...miss the 10pm back to BR, be too cheap to pay for a hotel and sleep/puke at the train station.
And...?
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:50 pm to TheCaterpillar
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I have no doubt if this was built that LSU would introduce a shuttle system for students/faculty and maybe even contract something for gamedays.
Many buildings in the CBD already run shuttles and this would just be another stop.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:50 pm to fightin tigers
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Just saying, each one of your points don't hold water when actually applied.
90 minutes of driving vs 60 minutes of dead stop traffic?
Plenty of commuter trains have free parking lots for their commuters, government encourages it. Owning a $2k beater just to get a couple miles to the station.
I think we're arguing the same points?
I'm saying it can be cheaper and easier than driving, while barely being any slower.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:51 pm to Cosmo
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By the time you drive to station and wait for train I cant imagine this is much faster than driving.
if it takes 2.5-3 hours to get from BR to Nola (or vice versa) they need to have WiFi on board. I can get a shite ton of work done in that time that I otherwise would have to spend 1.5-2 hrs driving to one or other for a meeting.
ETA: as for the "last mile" argument...thats what Uber is for.
This post was edited on 6/19/18 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:51 pm to TheCaterpillar
Yeah, sorry, was compounding on the previous complaints against it.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:53 pm to TheCaterpillar
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And...?
You do the math. Drunk people passed out, at a train station, middle of the night, in a city well known for crime.
I'm sure LA police would be glad to help secure the area though. Especially during a graveyard shift, paying time and a half.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:53 pm to fightin tigers
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vs 60 minutes of dead stop traffic
I’m sure that’s true. You just park on the interstate for an hour every single day if you’re commuting between the cities. Some of y’all are so damn dramatic.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:54 pm to ThatMakesSense
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Drunk people passed out, at a train station, middle of the night, in a city well known for crime
and this doesn't happen on a Saturday night in NYC, Chicago, Paris, Berlin...??
This post was edited on 6/19/18 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:54 pm to fightin tigers
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This post was edited on 9/24/20 at 5:30 pm
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:54 pm to ThatMakesSense
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You do the math. Drunk people passed out, at a train station, middle of the night, in a city well known for crime.
I'm sure LA police would be glad to help secure the area though. Especially during a graveyard shift, paying time and a half.
I think this issue is too small to even matter. Drunk college kids have been taking trains to big cities for a century and get stranded.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:54 pm to ThatMakesSense
So, you want us to have them drive back drunk?
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:55 pm to fightin tigers
in what car? they left it in BR
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:56 pm to lnomm34
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don't know why, but it's really annoying to me when grown arse people interject 'literally' into sentences unnecessarily.
That word has literally been used for centuries. Get over it.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:57 pm to OKTGR580
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You just park on the interstate for an hour every single day if you’re commuting between the cities. Some of y’all are so damn dramatic.
To work is 60 minutes, return trip is at least 90 minutes. So I have sat in traffic for at least 30 minutes each day....brutal.
Did many +2hr days because of the fricking spillway.
Posted on 6/19/18 at 3:57 pm to TheCaterpillar
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I think this issue is too small to even matter. Drunk college kids have been taking trains to big cities for a century and get stranded
I can agree to an extent, but the main attraction of NOLA is what? Sure the NE is connected very well, but it's not the same.
And like you've said, they've had 100 yes to figure out the policing necessary. I don't trust LA to figure it out in less than 500 years.
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