Lagniappe

[richyb83]

What have you been up to Nate ?? Great to hear from you! Beside staying in BR the past 36 hours. How has work and class going? The actual attendence at the LSU game was more like 87,000 than the 92,000+ paid. You are still welcome in the BR forum anytime. Did you notice the new development on the north side of campus??

So what has everyone been up to recently? Up until today, I had spent the last 36 hours over in Baton Rouge for the LSU game, which was an awesome time.

I'm much busier now that school is back in session. HS Football on Friday nites and LSU on Saturday's. We bought the LSU season tickets from the in-laws; we did not want them to loose the tickets. Once you give them up you may never get them back. We may split the tickets up next year?

Did you see my LSU/Auburn prediction on the Sports forum?

Edited September 12, 2006 by richyb83

[dimebag1980]

So what has everyone been up to recently? Up until today, I had spent the last 36 hours over in Baton Rouge for the LSU game, which was an awesome time.

Very nice, Nate. I hope you got some good photos.

Today I attended a 9-11 ceremony downtown, but up until today I've just been taking it easy and messing around quite a bit on Flickr.

[TBurban]

Man I wish I could just kick back and relax. But now I only have Saturdays and Sundays to do that. At least the school district Im in gives you a Dell for the year. I can post on and off at school, but otherwise, its been school, eat and sleep for me.

[dimebag1980]

Man I wish I could just kick back and relax. But now I only have Saturdays and Sundays to do that. At least the school district Im in gives you a Dell for the year. I can post on and off at school, but otherwise, its been school, eat and sleep for me.

How do they keep kids from downloading porn?

Boys will be boys!

[TBurban]

How do they keep kids from downloading porn?

Boys will be boys!

Haha, well. Henrico County Central Office School Headquarters has a full system of blocks, where they can add all sites they flag as inappropriate under the block list. Theyve got pretty much every porn and game site on that list. Plus, why look at it on your school computer when Ive got a home one! j/k

Edited September 14, 2006 by TBurban

[TBurban]

Ive seen renderings of the big mixed use project in my town! Link in the signature

[dimebag1980]

Ive seen renderings of the big mixed use project in my town! Link in the signature

Yeah right, like anyone would ever click that link.

Oh wait a second, I did yesterday... and today...

[TBurban]

Yeah right, like anyone would ever click that link.

Oh wait a second, I did yesterday... and today...

Haha, and theyve already broken ground! Completion date of 3-5 years. I should have construction pictures ill post there soon

[dan326]

Hey, I've got a building named after me. http://www.flickr.com/photos/restedtraveler/237274229/

Edited September 15, 2006 by dan326

[dimebag1980]

Hey, I've got a building named after me. http://www.flickr.com/photos/restedtraveler/237274229/

I see where it says it was originally the Daniel building. I was going to say "your name is Nuvox!?!?"

[dan326]

I see where it says it was originally the Daniel building. I was going to say "your name is Nuvox!?!?"

[richyb83]

[TBurban]

Hahaha, wellllllll my last name is a major city in the Northeast ....and its not New York City

[dimebag1980]

Hahaha, wellllllll my last name is a major city in the Northeast ....and its not New York City

Your last name is Baltimore?

Just kidding...

I bet it's Boston...

Edited September 16, 2006 by SBCmetroguy

[TBurban]

Your last name is Baltimore?

Just kidding...

I bet it's Boston...

Haha, you got it.

[dan326]

Look at this mess. No wonder Los Angeles has so much traffic. But it is huge. All three of our biggest metro coul fit inside the limits.

[richyb83]

Nice topic there Dan. You ain't kiddin, gheezz. It would swallow most areas. You could drive around for hours to get to the other side of all of that. Talk about sprawl. That's the Interstate Capitol of the World. But LA is dense too in alot of places. I wonder how long it would take on average to drive from Santa Ana up to Beverly Hills then way over to Ontario to the east??

Amazing at how compact New Orleans is. Look at BR's size spread-out to the east and southeast; covers a decent amount of land. I really like SBC's Interstate system.

Edited September 16, 2006 by richyb83

[TBurban]

What Ive noticed, is that few interstate systems in the South make a circle around cities. Unlike the North, the South has freeways that go more through cities. For example, Baltimore and Richmond. Do any cities in the Deep South have those beltway circles?

[richyb83]

Thanks for posting the maps. I love maps! Atlanta and Houston do. Nashville and Charlotte have semi-beltways. Memphis has a 3/4 loop. Birmingham has a nice by-pass. Lake Charles has a nice by-pass.

[NCB]

Alright guys, I had some fun with Google Earth this morning, and I decided to compare to densities of Louisiana's 4 largest cities; New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and Lafayette. Here are the Google Earth satellite images:

New Orleans- Now this my friends, is what urban density is all about!

Baton Rouge- I love Baton Rouge, but the sprawl really is a problem

Shreveport-Bossier City- Some nice density, especially around the central core

Lafayette-Lafayette also has some sprawl problems, but the central core is still nice

And just for fun...

Covington

[richyb83]

That's cool you did this Nate. Yep, New Orleans is a very compact urban jungle, no doubt about it. Shreveport has a nice urban core too.

The BR pics are discolored/distorted a bit. Those aerials are not very updated. The new Towne Center is not on there.

Baton Rouge does have a sprawl problem; and for many reasons:

a big reason is Exxon was built along the river, north of downtown/CBD. The air quality is not very good sometimes; people in north BR moved away from that health hazard to the east and southeast. Look at the long east/west strip of development(Florida Blvd,Hwy 190) that took place in the 70's/80's. Now Essen/Bluebonnet-Coursey/Siegen/ are booming. >But BR has many large in-fil projects ready to take place to curb all the sprawl. However Livingston and Ascension continue to rapidly grow. So the sprawl is here to stay.

BR has a 200+acers or more(forgot exactly) in the middle(near 10/12 split) called the LSU Rural Life Museum that will never be developed

The small rivers look cool snaking there way thru Lafayette and Covington.

Edited September 17, 2006 by richyb83

[dimebag1980]

You guys all need to hop on over to the Shreveport-Bossier board and see fridayinla's conceptual pedestrian bridge design!! I just checked it out and am amazed... what an awesome job!! Please give Stephen a round of applause if you like his design. I know he's been working on it for months. He kept on after I gave up on my design. His bridge concept would represent Shreveport-Bossier SO well.

[NCB]

So, what's up guys?

I'm just sitting back with and ice cold Abita Root Beer... ...and finally just enjoying my free time reading over the forum and posting.

[TBurban]

So, what's up guys?

I'm just sitting back with and ice cold Abita Root Beer... ...and finally just enjoying my free time reading over the forum and posting.

Lucky man, lucky man I wish I had the time to relax these days, at least Im getting some homework done in study hall as we speak.

Fall is on its way! 71 is the high today and man, it feels great! How about you guys? Getting cooler down there?

[dan326]

As I'm sure you'll all be suprised to know, I'm going on another trip, only a lttle short 1-day trip. I'm finally going to New Orleans. I don't know why, but maybe I'll get to see some stuff while I'm down there.