LA: Onetime Baton Rouge Tram Plan Now Proposed to be 10-Mile Express Bus Route

Plans for a 3-mile downtown-LSU tram have now morphed into a 10-mile express bus route between the university and a future north Baton Rouge hub near the site of the old Earl K. Long Hospital.

In February, Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome announced she would not continue with efforts to build a streetcar along Nicholson Drive as her predecessor Kip Holden had sought. Rather, she promised a system of bus rapid transit — or BRT — that could serve a larger number of East Baton Rouge residents.

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