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re: Why is Louisiana so dirty?
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:11 pm to lsutiger2010
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:11 pm to lsutiger2010
I mean you can say what you want about it but Little Rock, NWA, and Conway are 10x cleaner than anywhere in Louisiana. They take care of their state
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Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:19 pm to Lionnation1993
I've been gone a couple years. And while I really like Colorado, New Orleans still has my heart.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:26 pm to CCTider
I'm late to the discussion I know. There is a huge problem with litter and blight in BR. The lack of ground maintenance and cleanup is astounding and shows the huge problems within DPW.
I agree that it's a mindset. For some reason, people all over LA litter. But there is a lot that can be done locally by continuing to ensure the restructure of DPW isn't inhibited by the status quo.
This issue is a huge point being tackled by BRAC over the next year. I'm sure more on this will be discussed once a new mayor is elected.
Personally, I'm about to start weedeating medians and curbs. It's fricking ridiculous and the trash pisses me off every day. Drive down Perkins, College, Essen or even 110 like others have mentioned. This lack of maintenance not only makes the city look bad for residents, but also potential businesses that could locate here.
I agree that it's a mindset. For some reason, people all over LA litter. But there is a lot that can be done locally by continuing to ensure the restructure of DPW isn't inhibited by the status quo.
This issue is a huge point being tackled by BRAC over the next year. I'm sure more on this will be discussed once a new mayor is elected.
Personally, I'm about to start weedeating medians and curbs. It's fricking ridiculous and the trash pisses me off every day. Drive down Perkins, College, Essen or even 110 like others have mentioned. This lack of maintenance not only makes the city look bad for residents, but also potential businesses that could locate here.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:29 pm to Martini
You say you've been in "almost every state" and use our border states to prove your point. lol
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:31 pm to TigerRob20
First of all, TigerRob, no you're not about to start weedeating medians and curbs. You bitch and moan about having to mow your own yard.
Secondly, to the OP, you're not wrong in your assessment. I honestly never noticed it in the 25 years I lived in LA, but the first time coming back after moving away it blew my mind. It really is atrocious. No one from the top down seems to give a shite about fixing it, either.
Secondly, to the OP, you're not wrong in your assessment. I honestly never noticed it in the 25 years I lived in LA, but the first time coming back after moving away it blew my mind. It really is atrocious. No one from the top down seems to give a shite about fixing it, either.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:39 pm to Lionnation1993
People with T in front of their names.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:40 pm to lsutiger2010
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Shitting on LA when you live in Arkansas?
Arkansas is magnitudes times cleaner than LA. Not even comparable.
People like you and fat martini that get butt hurt when someone makes the claim of how shitty LA is taken care of are part of the problem.
This post was edited on 11/3/16 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 11/3/16 at 10:49 pm to AbitaFan08
Yeah it took getting older and traveling around a bit to realize what a dump Louisiana is. The litter is everywhere. Even down in Port Sulphur, at a private launch, people bank fishing will just leave trash right there on the ground. My dad, who grew up in NOLA and never left, always said NOLA looked dumpy bc it was old. Well traveling to Europe proves that theory wrong, as those old cities are maintained better and kept cleaner.
It's just disgusting shitty people doing what they do. A lot of the highway litter is stuff flying out of truck beds.
It's just disgusting shitty people doing what they do. A lot of the highway litter is stuff flying out of truck beds.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 11:30 pm to biglego
Louisiana needs more trash cans imo
Posted on 11/3/16 at 11:32 pm to biglego
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Well traveling to Europe proves that theory wrong, as those old cities are maintained better and kept cleaner.
Have you been to Paris or Lyon? Not disputing that we are dirty over here but they get plenty dirty over there too.
This post was edited on 11/3/16 at 11:33 pm
Posted on 11/3/16 at 11:34 pm to REG861
I've been to both and both are cleaner than the average Louisiana town.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 11:35 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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Louisiana needs more trash cans imo
Too bad the disgusting fricks won't walk the extra ten feet to the trash can anyway
Posted on 11/3/16 at 11:36 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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the vast majority of states aren't nearly as bad as Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. The difference is night and day.
This is spot on.
Earlier this year, I drove from Lafayette to Rhode Island up the East Coast. The further you get from the Gulf, the more you realize just how terrible it is here.
I mean, it's not perfect up there, but even just the existence of those little travel stops in the northeast with gas and a couple of restaurants to avoid having to venture off into ratchet towns was something I didn't realize made a difference to me. The fact that I could just stop at a clean, relatively safe looking place, fill up the tank, have a few options to grab food or whatever else, and be on my way all in one stop was pleasant.
It really made me think about things I hadn't really paid attention to before, such as the amount of really shitty gas stations in vary states of disrepair that I've had to stop at traveling throughout the South.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 11:37 pm to tgrbaitn08
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Yet the OP has not specifically said what part of Louisiana he's talking about being "so dirty"
All of it. And he's right. You realize it more after you move away and then come back to visit. I can drive for miles in western North Carolina and not see a scrap of paper along the highway. I grew up in Shreveport and from a young age it always aggravated me how trashy the roadsides and roads were.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 11:46 pm to Lionnation1993
Because it's Lewzianer.
Posted on 11/3/16 at 11:50 pm to lsusteve1
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I sincerely wish La would put a priority on stopping the littering.
It's beyond terrible & we have some trashy people that don't give a shite.
Well when this behavior is accepted and even celebrated a la Mardi Gras, that only perpetuates it the rest of the year.
Posted on 11/4/16 at 12:00 am to Lionnation1993
1) people are poor and trashy - we have a high percentage of them
2) our road workers are lazy and don't do their jobs
3) corrupt bureaucrats and politicians steal money meant for cleaning and allow the first two thibgs to occur
4) wardens should send prisoners to clean up but they steal the money meant for that
5) tobacco use is higher here - toss butts everywhere
2) our road workers are lazy and don't do their jobs
3) corrupt bureaucrats and politicians steal money meant for cleaning and allow the first two thibgs to occur
4) wardens should send prisoners to clean up but they steal the money meant for that
5) tobacco use is higher here - toss butts everywhere
This post was edited on 11/4/16 at 12:01 am
Posted on 11/4/16 at 12:09 am to Martini
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Martini
Please...keep posting more stupid shite, I'm getting a great
out of it. Posted on 11/4/16 at 1:18 am to Lionnation1993
quote:we are believers in the 2nd amendment and love the flag - don't want no uppity folks pointing out we need a shower and that we to repair our roads.
Everytime I come back it looks worse. Huge pot holes on most roads, road kill all over the side of the road, trash in the grass. I mean do people here just not care? The air generally stinks in most places. Leaving this state was the best thing I have ever done. Once you experience something else, you will never move back.
Posted on 11/4/16 at 6:22 am to Spaulding Smails
I-9t and I-75 in Florida are dumps. I-55 from Memphis to St Louis esp in Arkansas is a dump. Cumberland Parkway across Kentucky is full of shite.
Ever been around the Jersey Turnpike?
Every place is dirty.
Ever been around the Jersey Turnpike?
Every place is dirty.
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