re: How are the expansion projects coming?

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what I was getting at is that public transportation is usually predominantly used by the lower class

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I just don't see how you'd think a rail link between BR and NOLA would be heavily used by the "lower class". This ain't a 15 minute bus ride we're talking about.

The primary intended use was for all the workers who'll be coming in for the approximately $21 billion in projects being built in the BR-NOLA corridor. Secondarily, it's for evacuation during hurricane season...that's why one of the stops is at Essen Lane in BR, where all the medical facilities are. Third, it was to handle sports fans..LSU, Saints, Zephyrs. We're saying that LSU students will use it big time to go back and forth from BR to NOLA.

I'd bet you'd ride that train a long time and never see anyone from "the lower class".

Edit: reposted pic showing rail route...

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Hmm interesting thought. Could happen i suppose.

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Dude, don't feed the troll.

I mean c'mon...why would someone in the "lower class" pay $10 bucks for a 79 minute train ride? To go where? For what purpose? A job? There's plenty of jobs in both cities, and at every stop along the line. No reason to go anywhere else. Louisiana's unemployment rate recently dipped to 4.3%. There's literally jobs everywhere. With even more on the way.

You'll primarily see students, sports fans, and construction workers on that train at first. Later on you'll see a lot of workers in oil and gas refineries.

No lower class though. That's just insane.



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No it's on campus... Just not many tall buildings near by

A further FYI on the BR-NOLA rail link...it may one day be a part of a rail link stretching from Houston to Atlanta, with a side junt to Mobile from the New Orleans junction.

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DEEP SOUTH HIGH SPEED RAIL CORRIDOR FEASIBILITY STUDY (1995)

In 1995, the SRRTC undertook a study to define a corridor or corridors for high speed rail passenger service through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama that could also provide a connection for HSR service between Texas and Florida. The study recommends a primary route that parallels the I-10 corridor along the Gulf Coast stretching 393 miles from Atmore, AL to Lake Charles, LA. Baton Rouge to New Orleans is an important segment of this longer corridor. The study identifies the benefits of implementing service, provides an estimate of ridership, and suggests an incremental approach for implementing service and capital improvements. The study recommends stations in Baton Rouge, LaPlace, New Orleans International Airport (Kenner) and New Orleans. This study was provided the documentation that was instrumental in obtaining the federal designation as a high speed rail corridor

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BR-NOLA Rail Study

Home.

I would use the everloving shite out of that rail if it existed.

I don't mean to sound like a dick about the A&M project, but the whole thing just looks terribly generic to me. It looks like the outside of FSU, Texas, Oklahoma and Bama. It's an impressive project for sure, don't get me wrong. Just doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of creativity going on.

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If you say so. I think they're all fairly different besides all have bricks & glass. But then again the covers most stadiums & ballparks.

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I would use the everloving shite out of that rail if it existed.

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I would, too. Try as I might though, I just can't get it out of my head that we'd already have a higher-speed version, if not for Jindal turning down the federal money for it.

Finally got all the arches up on the expansion: