Route unveiled for Baton Rouge streetcar connecting LSU and downtown

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Planners released details today of the proposed route for Baton Rouge’s planned 3.4-mile streetcar that will link LSU to downtown.

Heading north, the proposed route travels along Nicholson Drive, which becomes St. Louis Street at Interstate 10, then utilizes Europe Street for one block to connect to St. Ferdinand Street, which becomes Fourth Street. The route then continues on Fourth Street in a north-south direction to the northernmost stop on the route—North Street at the State Capitol. The streetcar would then turn around and use the same route in a southbound direction.

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The proposed route is one of several steps city officials and their planning team have to complete as they rush to secure funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the project. The city-parish has already received federal planning funds to design the project, but it now has to complete a detailed and lengthy process in order to qualify at the federal level for some of the $100 million in funds it will take to actually build the line, now officially called TramLink BR.

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Time is of the essence because the Obama administration, which leaves office at the end of the year, has indicated its support for the project.

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