re: The LITTER in BR is EVERY WHERE!

A large multi-national Japanese technology company was going to open up a huge operation in New Orleans a few years back and the CEO wanted to build it in New Orleans due to the fact that he loved Jazz music and this was his connection to Louisiana. He landed at the Lakefront Airport and made it all the way to the Orleans Ave exit on I-610. The exit has five or six blighted houses and trash everywhere. He asked the President of a local company to drive him through the neighborhood (Treme-Broad-Esplanade neighborhood) and after an hour he told the President of this local company to take him back to the airport as he had seen enough.

He told the President he couldn't ask his people to relocate to New Orleans if the people & its politicians treated their environment this way. The Japanese company was going to bring in 2100 jobs into New Orleans. The President called Ray Nagin out of the blue & told him what took place. No one knew the company was even looking at New Orleans but the President called Nagin told him those properties had been blighted for 35 years and no one had done a damn thing. This was the first thing you see coming into New Orleans from the Lakefront Airport and the city looked horrible from this first impression.

Say what you want about Ray Nagin but the very next day Ray Nagin ordered his people to bulldoze those properties down to the ground on St. Ann Street of North Claiborne down to the ground. Those properties were grass lots in less than 72 hours and today are still grass lots but it looks better than the blighted crap hole that it was.

Nagin also ordered the city to start cleaning up the trash in the area weekly which continued until Landrieu was elected.

Let's fast forward to today--we have no less than 30 blighted properties on the Erhardt expressway when you get into Orleans Parish which are in even worse condition than the properties on St. Ann & N. Claiborne yet Landrieu hasn't don't a fricking thing to clean that shite up and people do drive that stretch from the airport to come into the City.

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Let's fast forward to today--we have no less than 30 blighted properties on the Erhardt expressway when you get into Orleans Parish which are in even worse condition than the properties on St. Ann & N. Claiborne yet Landrieu hasn't don't a fricking thing to clean that shite up and people do drive that stretch from the airport to come into the City.

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But monuments.....

Certainly EBR could do more in cleaning up, but this unfortunately stems from an all too common mindset of certain people thinking that because someone else's job or duty is to clean up public trash, then the world is their dumpster.