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re: Voting yes to more BR road taxes today is like giving O a contract extension.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 1:37 pm to Napoleon
Posted on 12/8/18 at 1:37 pm to Napoleon
quote:this is true
IIRC they had a similar ballot initiave is in the early aughts and it passed.
quote:this is just a dumb generalization. in the areas where the last ballot initiative called the green light program was implemented, traffic has most definitely improved.
Yet traffic has not improved.
quote:sounds like you understand it, but ok.
You have almost every street change it's names at least once. Acadian is Stanford, College is Lee and Brightside. Siegen becomes Burbank. Coursey becomes Bluebonnet. It's confusing.
quote:ok
The interstate is horrible as well.
the interstate is a federal/state route, not a city route. this tax is for BR city street improvements.
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Posted on 12/8/18 at 1:38 pm to elprez00
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And that’s AFTER millions of dollars have been spent on road improvements.
A lot of those are freeways.
I don’t think EBR should be paying for that on their own. At some point the state and feds have to step up.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 1:48 pm to CharlesLSU
So other areas of the country have lower taxes and better infrastructures. Why can’t we use that as a model rather than always just raising new taxes? Again, do more with the money you already have. Efficiency is key.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 2:02 pm to Mr Mom
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So other areas of the country have lower taxes and better infrastructures. Why can’t we use that as a model rather than always just raising new taxes? Again, do more with the money you already have. Efficiency is key.
Where specifically are you talking about that pays lower taxes?
Posted on 12/8/18 at 2:04 pm to InflateADate
Do a search for overall tax burden. It factors in property taxes, sales tax, etc...
Louisiana is ranked #29 and TX is #34. NY is #1
Louisiana is ranked #29 and TX is #34. NY is #1
Posted on 12/8/18 at 2:05 pm to InflateADate
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Where specifically are you talking about that pays lower taxes?
About half of the country does now. TX, TN, FL, etc
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Posted on 12/8/18 at 3:43 pm to fallguy_1978
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TX, TN, FL, etc
All three of those places rely on higher user fees and user taxes like the gas tax, tolls, etc to pay for their transportation needs. Try any of that here and the government is stealing more money
Posted on 12/8/18 at 3:46 pm to Tshiz
I'm sure you're just being funny but I disagree.
Neither entity operates in anything remotely resembling a free market, but TAF has more money than they know what to do with so they don't have to make sound business decisions. TAF for the most part isn't beholden to the same level of regulations in terms of ethics and civil service.
The product produced by TAF is entertainment and promotional, where as the product BRgov is asking for is critical infrastructure.
Furthermore, BRgov actually has a pretty good track record for maintaining their finances - although I have no idea what the new mayor's personal record is.
Neither entity operates in anything remotely resembling a free market, but TAF has more money than they know what to do with so they don't have to make sound business decisions. TAF for the most part isn't beholden to the same level of regulations in terms of ethics and civil service.
The product produced by TAF is entertainment and promotional, where as the product BRgov is asking for is critical infrastructure.
Furthermore, BRgov actually has a pretty good track record for maintaining their finances - although I have no idea what the new mayor's personal record is.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 3:48 pm to Napoleon
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They need to use a very heavy handed immanent domain land gra
frick that and frick you for suggesting it.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 4:20 pm to InflateADate
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gas tax
Not really, no
Posted on 12/8/18 at 4:30 pm to InflateADate
I paid $1.92 per gallon in Houston yesterday. I'm assuming folks in Louisiana are paying $1.80 as I'm being whalloped by higher gas taxes?
Posted on 12/9/18 at 9:56 am to PiscesTiger
What's the timeline for the massive road construction to begin?
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:09 am to Mudminnow
I believe that construction isn’t expected to start until April.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:12 am to Tshiz
I reluctantly voted for the MoveBR tax, but only because Green Light actually worked. The majority of my reluctance is my lack of faith in SWB (I would have been less reluctant if Kip were still Mayor/President) even though there are projects in MoveBR that would impact me directly.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:20 am to Bard
I was disappointed with the number of green light projects that didn’t get finished, but those that did were a huge step in the right direction.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:21 am to Bard
I am not shocked it passed. Many of the frustrations of people in the community is traffic. It's not because population is rapidly exploding, just that it was poorly designed and not keeping up with the times from the 80's.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:24 am to Mudminnow
FYI, north Baton Rouge doesn’t have hardly any traffic. The interstate system sucks due to its poor design, but the majority of the bad surface street traffic is in the suburban southern part of the parish. Back in the 80’s, most of that area was farm land and woods. Now, there’s 100k people there. Infrastructure development did not keep up with the pace of population growth and poor planning resulted in a lack of a road grid and redundancy. NBR has a grid. SBR doesn’t.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:26 am to Mudminnow
Good job on the republicans of the parish getting this tax approved. A move in the right direction for this parish.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:29 am to Napoleon
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They need to use a very heavy handed immanent domain land grab and design some smart corridors or the city will have another 100 years of traffic nightmares.
I actually agree with you
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