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re: Well, this is good. Giant sinkhole in the middle of Canal St.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 6:02 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Posted on 4/29/16 at 6:02 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
It's car sized. Imagine being at the light then you blink and you're underneath the road.
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Posted on 4/29/16 at 6:15 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Damn Boh Brothers can't build anything that lasts.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 6:30 pm to TheIndulger
So they dug a tunnel then changed their plans?
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That's about the size of it.
In the 60s, there were plans to build a riverfront interstate, w/ most of the money coming from the Feds. There were also plans to build the Rivergate Convention Center. The new expressway had to go under the Rivergate site. In a rare instance of foresight, the city (and probably state) ponied up the money to build the tunnel before the expressway was approved for federal funding and before the Rivergate was built. The logic being that it would show the city's commitment to the project and would avoid tearing up the same place twice.
In the end, protesters stopped the elevated freeway from being built along the river and the interstate went in over Claiborne Ave.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 6:34 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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This post was edited on 1/10/21 at 11:04 pm
Posted on 4/29/16 at 6:45 pm to White Roach
Thank God they didn't build an eleated freeway through the FQ. What a tragedy that would have been.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 6:48 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
That's quite the pothole there. 
Posted on 4/29/16 at 6:57 pm to NYNolaguy1
Its not a black hole so Mitch won't do a fricking thing about it
Posted on 4/29/16 at 7:05 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
They can fill the hole with civil war statues.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 7:22 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Thank God they didn't build an eleated freeway through the FQ. What a tragedy that would have been.
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The Riverfront Expressway was to run from the GNO Bridge to Elysian Fields Ave, basically along Decatur St through the Quarter and the Marigny. A bunch of cities were building elevated expressways along the water at that time. The proposed N.O. Expressway was the first to be stopped by preservationists protesting it's construction.
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The Riverfront Expressway was to run from the GNO Bridge to Elysian Fields Ave, basically along Decatur St through the Quarter and the Marigny. A bunch of cities were building elevated expressways along the water at that time. The proposed N.O. Expressway was the first to be stopped by preservationists protesting it's construction.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 7:24 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
I swear I thought there was more than just air holding the streets up.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 8:03 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
The city can get the money by raising taxes on Lake View!
Posted on 4/29/16 at 8:12 pm to Isabelle81
I swear I thought there was more than just air holding the streets up.
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I don't think the hole is over the actual tunnel, but near the end (or possibly, the side) of it.
I'm guessing the cap on the end of the tunnel failed and water from leaking pipes, or maybe storm water runoff, carried soil into the tunnel, leaving a void that undermined the street.
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I don't think the hole is over the actual tunnel, but near the end (or possibly, the side) of it.
I'm guessing the cap on the end of the tunnel failed and water from leaking pipes, or maybe storm water runoff, carried soil into the tunnel, leaving a void that undermined the street.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 9:06 pm to GEAUXT
Plug it with the Lee Statue-Mitch
Posted on 4/29/16 at 9:07 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Second sinkhole in as many days.
The city is literally going to hell.
The city is literally going to hell.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 9:55 pm to fightin tigers
Rob Ryan was found at the bottom of the sinkhole with 1/2 an uneaten muffaletta
Posted on 4/29/16 at 10:33 pm to Isabelle81
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I swear I thought there was more than just air holding the streets up.
Actually the news just said the wooden beams supporting the roadway rotted out. They even showed some rotted out beams at the end of the tunnel. . Like WTF were these idiots thinking.
I'm hoping the reporter misunderstood. However with it being New Orleans I'd believe anything.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 10:36 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Not legit hole.
That is one of those awesome 3D chalk drawings on the road.
That is one of those awesome 3D chalk drawings on the road.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 10:37 pm to AbitaFan08
Loop
Posted on 4/30/16 at 1:06 am to Lionnation1993
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Will be there no less than 25 years
Will be filled in with racist statues
Posted on 4/30/16 at 7:22 am to LSUTigersVCURams
Over/Under
10 homeless people have shite in it?
10 homeless people have shite in it?
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