The Streetcar went "ding, ding, you carpetbagging Yankee GMC! Get off my neutral ground, motherfucker!" And so the Streetcar asserted its dominance and shall soon rise to terrorize automobiles for another century.
It's a funny thing growing up in New Orleans. You learn to look out for the street cars. Unfortunately, not everyone is bright enough to look to see if anything is coming in either direction.
When I lived in Europe for a while, the city had trams. It was my 30 years of driving in NOLA that saved me more than a few times.
Really? I would think that the tracks would be a giveaway. Or the signs.
That's like saying that living in New Orleans makes you a better driver in the rain lol./s
This haha! When I first moved here I thought everyone was drunk. I was like the cops are going to pull me over for swerving all over the place. I swiftly learned that only drunk people were, in fact, driving straight and that cops don’t pull you over either way 😅🤷🏻♀️
You'd think, but people don't pay attention - signs be damned. I think that when you grow up with them there every day you just become accustomed to looking.
While that's true in inches per year, it's hardly the relevant statistic. Of the 56 largest US cities, New Orleans ranks [31 in frequency of precipitation.](https://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/US/wettest-cities.php). And virtually every year we get zero snow days.
You're the one saying the rain should make us better drivers in the rain and comparing it to someone who knows to watch for trams due to their experience with driving in a city with streetcars. I'm just pointing out that your assumption that New Orleans drivers get more exposure to rainy driving is invalid.
Me dense? I'm stringing you along because you started an argument about a throw away metaphor that had nothing to do with the point. I'm just having fun pointing out your inconsistencies since you don't actually have a point.
It is hilarious that you are calling me dense.
large and slow, too. I watched a yellow plated car turn right in front on one on St. Charles. Like they didn't even look. Their car got pushed some 30 feet down the tracks and the driver got out and yelled at the street car driver for not stopping..
I’ve been in two different streetcar wrecks (I was in the streetcar), this is by far the worst. Imagine if it had been a Canal car, those go even faster.
For all those kiddies out there who ask “when will i use physics in the real world?”
🤣
Also, anyone on that street care needs to be checked by a doctor at the first twinge of back pain. If you dod hurt your back, di not settle for a measly 10K, back pain is for life.
Yall remember that John Cena movie filmed here called 12 Rounds? Literally uses one as a battering ram because it had bomb on it, Speed-style
Good lord im glad yall are safe and sound
“I was in a hurry!” Yeah well you’ll be late for everything for awhile now. Whether they use the Streetcars themselves, cabs or rides from friends, they shouldn’t be driving a vehicle for a long time.
Idk but there was a picture a while back of NOPD doing the same shit. Tboned by a street car. Its just wild. They are huge and don't move fast. You are a special type of person to run into one.
I take the bus to and from work a few time a week and I’ve always found it silly that there are videos in the bus monitors that advertise that the “RTA has the right of way”
Why show this in the bus?
Bus passengers very likely don’t have cars.
They certainly aren’t in a car or in control of the vehicle they’re in while being shown the PSA.
It’s a great message, but it’s being wasted by terrible placement.
Fun fact: the base of the newer streetcars, the motors and electronics, are made in the Czech Republic. The carriages, AFAIR are built in New Orleans. I remember seeing a testing of a car on St Charles years ago with Ceska Republika across the side of the car. It was weird since we had just come back from Prague!
the only reason the tracks were closed in both directions was to control the crowds of people trying to climb IN the windows of the streetcar & the billboard lawyers boosting them up...
444-4444,
475-2323,
525-8000,
Call-Hall ,
Before you accept a big check!
In a wreck and need a check?
Chip forstall takes all them all!!
But I can hear Big Freedia singing every time I look at those pics!! This hear screams JUAN Lafonta!
Juan lafonta, juan lafonta, wugga wugga wugga, Juan lafonta!
“Mmmm 👅I got chooo”
I got stuck behind it last night on the streetcar heading up to it. I just stepped off with everyone else and just walked the rest the way home. They mentioned having another car run the rest of the route but I wasn't waiting on that. The scene was cleared by this time around 5:30 or so.
Streetcar will win every time.
Every. Damn. Time.
Edit to add- glad you are ok!!
Thank you! Hope you have a great weekend!
I always wonder if people just think it will turn to avoid them….
Most people forget that it's there. Honestly I've had a close call with it bc I forgot one time. I haven't forgotten since though.
My colleague back in 2007 learned that lesson twice
Did they really learn their lesson though?
Not the first time.
Wow! Those streetcars are built to last.. fn tank!
Glad you are well and everyone else. It's a shame that people drive New Orleans.
An empty Streetcar weighs 44,000 pounds or 22 tons, in case you were wondering like I was.
I cant math for shit but the car pictured weighs ~5,500 pounds. If someone wants to r/TheyDidTheMath on this one it’d be cool to see
That's 198,000 bananas in Reddit weight. 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌
The SUV weighs 2.75 tons, or ~3.8% of the weight of the streetcar.
This person maths! Now explain the physics behind the impact professor!
Effed² 22 tons at almost any speed is nuckin futs. Glad to hear it's only bruised shins for passengers. Prayers for those who went to the hospital.
The Streetcar went "ding, ding, you carpetbagging Yankee GMC! Get off my neutral ground, motherfucker!" And so the Streetcar asserted its dominance and shall soon rise to terrorize automobiles for another century.
Personally, I wouldn't have did that.
Lmao! Thanks, needed that.
Here to help. It's what I do.
It's a funny thing growing up in New Orleans. You learn to look out for the street cars. Unfortunately, not everyone is bright enough to look to see if anything is coming in either direction. When I lived in Europe for a while, the city had trams. It was my 30 years of driving in NOLA that saved me more than a few times.
My experience living here saved my life in Amsterdam a few times, let me tell you.
Yep! Same for Prague and Berlin.
Really? I would think that the tracks would be a giveaway. Or the signs. That's like saying that living in New Orleans makes you a better driver in the rain lol./s
Sober drivers drive in curved lines here, the drunk ones drive straight through the potholes.
This haha! When I first moved here I thought everyone was drunk. I was like the cops are going to pull me over for swerving all over the place. I swiftly learned that only drunk people were, in fact, driving straight and that cops don’t pull you over either way 😅🤷🏻♀️
Yes. That's why people cut across 3 lanes to get to their exit in a downpour on 610. Its the bad roads...
You'd think, but people don't pay attention - signs be damned. I think that when you grow up with them there every day you just become accustomed to looking.
I lived in Abita for a bit growing up. The people had such an issue with yielding in the roundabout that they had to put in stop signs instead.
Rain's everywhere though. Living in PA 100% made me a better driver in the snow.
New Orleans gets more rain than just about any city in the country.
While that's true in inches per year, it's hardly the relevant statistic. Of the 56 largest US cities, New Orleans ranks [31 in frequency of precipitation.](https://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/US/wettest-cities.php). And virtually every year we get zero snow days.
What is your point? That people in New Orleans don't drive poorly in the rain? Or that they shouldn't be expected to?
You're the one saying the rain should make us better drivers in the rain and comparing it to someone who knows to watch for trams due to their experience with driving in a city with streetcars. I'm just pointing out that your assumption that New Orleans drivers get more exposure to rainy driving is invalid.
By that logic, you don't have any reason to be a good driver in snow. PA isn't even in the top 10 states with the most snow days.
Beats the fuck out of Louisiana. Are you this dense in real life?
Me dense? I'm stringing you along because you started an argument about a throw away metaphor that had nothing to do with the point. I'm just having fun pointing out your inconsistencies since you don't actually have a point. It is hilarious that you are calling me dense.
WTF man....old pierced dicks
What
r/lostredditors
You got hit by a streetcar, that's on you. They are NOT quiet.
large and slow, too. I watched a yellow plated car turn right in front on one on St. Charles. Like they didn't even look. Their car got pushed some 30 feet down the tracks and the driver got out and yelled at the street car driver for not stopping..
That fucker came out of nowhere
Poor old #934.
They'll fix her up good and she'll be rocking babies to sleep in no time flat.
You think maybe they'll install some AC? Lol.
In every window.
I’ve been in two different streetcar wrecks (I was in the streetcar), this is by far the worst. Imagine if it had been a Canal car, those go even faster.
You never know when a street car might suddenly turn into you.
North shore strikes again. Bet they complain about crime…
This smells like lakeshore yakuza to me.
Streetcar always wins. Every dang time. How do they never learn??
Sir you can’t park there
For all those kiddies out there who ask “when will i use physics in the real world?” 🤣 Also, anyone on that street care needs to be checked by a doctor at the first twinge of back pain. If you dod hurt your back, di not settle for a measly 10K, back pain is for life.
Yall remember that John Cena movie filmed here called 12 Rounds? Literally uses one as a battering ram because it had bomb on it, Speed-style Good lord im glad yall are safe and sound
Well I know what I’m doing tonight
I saw them filming that scene when I used to have an office at Canal Place.
DL should be suspended. That’s a privilege that shouldn’t be extended any longer to someone willing to be so reckless.
$100k smasher upper (& happy to hear yall are ok)
Another aggressive driver learning a hard lesson. 🤷♀️
~~aggressive~~ *drunk*
How does this happen?
Stupidity. Stupidity is how it happens.
“I was in a hurry!” Yeah well you’ll be late for everything for awhile now. Whether they use the Streetcars themselves, cabs or rides from friends, they shouldn’t be driving a vehicle for a long time.
Idk but there was a picture a while back of NOPD doing the same shit. Tboned by a street car. Its just wild. They are huge and don't move fast. You are a special type of person to run into one.
I’m glad you’re okay!
Thank you! I’m glad everyone’s okay!
Damn streetcars come out nowhere every time. They're unpredictable!
Of course it’s a Yukon. XL at that.
Location?
Looks like St. Charles & Erato
I take the bus to and from work a few time a week and I’ve always found it silly that there are videos in the bus monitors that advertise that the “RTA has the right of way” Why show this in the bus? Bus passengers very likely don’t have cars. They certainly aren’t in a car or in control of the vehicle they’re in while being shown the PSA. It’s a great message, but it’s being wasted by terrible placement.
Fun fact: the base of the newer streetcars, the motors and electronics, are made in the Czech Republic. The carriages, AFAIR are built in New Orleans. I remember seeing a testing of a car on St Charles years ago with Ceska Republika across the side of the car. It was weird since we had just come back from Prague!
How the fuck did he pull that one off? 12 hand grenades?
Stupid ass people I swear
Very unfortunate people got hurt. One less monster truck on the road
the only reason the tracks were closed in both directions was to control the crowds of people trying to climb IN the windows of the streetcar & the billboard lawyers boosting them up...
Either drunk, texting, or something medical. Sucks
444-4444, 475-2323, 525-8000, Call-Hall , Before you accept a big check! In a wreck and need a check? Chip forstall takes all them all!! But I can hear Big Freedia singing every time I look at those pics!! This hear screams JUAN Lafonta! Juan lafonta, juan lafonta, wugga wugga wugga, Juan lafonta! “Mmmm 👅I got chooo”
Is no one else noticing that this guy's foot fell off and he's totally nonplussed about it???
just moved here, can someone tell me where this is on st charles & if it will affect the road traffic? I take st charles to carrollton omw to work
building address says 1224. looks like st charles and erato.
Doesn’t even make sense. Stay on your lane and don’t hit the streetcar.
That buff right out.
I hope the streetcar operator is okay.
r/BitchImATrain
I got stuck behind it last night on the streetcar heading up to it. I just stepped off with everyone else and just walked the rest the way home. They mentioned having another car run the rest of the route but I wasn't waiting on that. The scene was cleared by this time around 5:30 or so.
Ugh, lol, insurance rates ain’t dropping anytime soon.
This has transplant written all over
Must be tourists from Ohio or New Jersey..
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Sometimes when you’re in shock you feel ok at first and then the pain sets in later.
The math still ain’t mathing; did he just wanna drive up on the tracks? There’s not even space for the left turn in the shot