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re: LSU to downtown tram scrapped, replaced by Plank Rd. to LSU bus route
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:48 pm to BeepNode
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:48 pm to BeepNode
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Isn't this a good thing? They're scrapping the tram idea in favor of buses.
The tram at least had the opportunity to possibly trigger some economic development along Nicholson and downtown.
This bus route will just let the rot of NBR creep south at a whopping cost to the taxpayers who already subsidize a cash strapped city.
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 10:50 pm
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Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:50 pm to Ingeniero
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LSU to downtown tram scrapped,
Let me guess, they already raised the money for this project but they are going to pocket it and then ask for another $40-50 million for a road to a bus stop?
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:28 pm to Ingeniero
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This is an update on the situation though. SWB requested another study to start work by next Labor Day.
Side note, every time I see Sharon Weston Broome abbreviated as SWB, I always read it as the Sewerage and Water Board in Nola.
It's not a wholly inaccurate comparison, if I'm being honest.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 7:39 am to Ingeniero
LSU to plank road? I think the only time we went out there was to witness the blight.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 7:40 am to ibldprplgld
They both inept and they both be witchunt.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 7:46 am to Ingeniero
Great. They're going to bus in criminals to the LSU campus to make robbing students easier. Woo hoo! 
Posted on 12/5/18 at 7:54 am to Ingeniero
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designs for an express bus line connecting LSU to the Plank Road corridor through downtown should be ready early next year.
This might be the dumbest idea that SWB's crew has come up with yet. I would love to see the made up data justifying this idea. I'll bet the same crew producing this study was the one claiming NBR supports the zoo.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 7:59 am to Ingeniero
Anyone know if the brilliant plan to build a bike trail between Southern & LSU is still in the works?
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:02 am to rowbear1922
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With LSU's new "Holistic" admissions, all them Southern students about to transfer.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:03 am to Ingeniero
Uhhhh...
50 million for a BUS ROUTE???
3 Drivers @ 50k (being generous) 150k per year
2 Buses ~100k
Gas ~20k per year (being extremely generous)
Maintenance ~10k per year
Insurance ~10k a year (probably overshooting that)
That's 190k a year with an initial startup of 290k...
FIFTY frickING MILLION?
So glad I moved.
50 million for a BUS ROUTE???
3 Drivers @ 50k (being generous) 150k per year
2 Buses ~100k
Gas ~20k per year (being extremely generous)
Maintenance ~10k per year
Insurance ~10k a year (probably overshooting that)
That's 190k a year with an initial startup of 290k...
FIFTY frickING MILLION?
So glad I moved.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:05 am to 50_Tiger
Are they building terminals, ticket offices, dedicated street lanes, etc?
That's the only way it could ACTUALLY cost that much money.
That's the only way it could ACTUALLY cost that much money.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:06 am to Ingeniero
Isn’t it a ghetto club off of plank rd, lol.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:08 am to MsGarrison
a ghetto club?
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:09 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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Stops would normally be placed every quarter to third of a mile, with ticketing terminals and raised curbs so the buses don’t have to wait for riders to pay fare on board or pause to kneel to let passengers off and on, Handzel explained.
From article.
How much does one of these terminals cost?
3 x 10 (10 miles every 1/3rd mile) = 30
Surely these things don't run more than 5k a piece.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:12 am to 50_Tiger
The 49/50 is an initial outlay.
It doesn't cover operating costs.
It doesn't cover operating costs.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:17 am to Ingeniero
1. CATS is robbing the taxpayers (property owners) of BR and they have to justify their existence;
2. The mayor doesn't want ANY project that "just benefits white people" (although last I checked, the Downtown to LSU idead didn't discriminate as to who could use the service)
1+2 = money spent for a public service which has ZERO demand.
And there are morons on this board who want to give EBR's administration MORE money (in the form of a sales tax increase on the ballot this weekend) to effectively piss away.
2. The mayor doesn't want ANY project that "just benefits white people" (although last I checked, the Downtown to LSU idead didn't discriminate as to who could use the service)
1+2 = money spent for a public service which has ZERO demand.
And there are morons on this board who want to give EBR's administration MORE money (in the form of a sales tax increase on the ballot this weekend) to effectively piss away.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:29 am to Alt26
3. This project will use funds from the CP to fund even more mass transit than what CATS is doing.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:30 am to Alt26
Get out of BR while you still can.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:30 am to 50_Tiger
What makes it an "express" and any different than a regular bus route?
I would think that for it to be an express, it would need some dedicated lanes to keep it from getting clogged up in traffic.
I would think that for it to be an express, it would need some dedicated lanes to keep it from getting clogged up in traffic.
Posted on 12/5/18 at 8:31 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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What makes it an "express" and any different than a regular bus route?
The planners have done a lousy job of telling us that.
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