swag

Interesting. Lots of people quibble about contradictory neighborhood definitions, but until your post, I'd thought the Parkview neighborhood was uniformly agreed on - the much smaller area bounded by Orleans, Carrollton, and the Bayou. FWIW, that's also the boundaries used by the Parkview neighborhood association until it disbanded and merged with the City Park NA in 2018. I live in the City Park neighborhood and go to CPNA meetings, I'm quite certain the boundaries don't extend past the bayou.

The HDLC district apparently was only created in 2017.

FLYMSY

I agree with you about the smaller boundaries for Parkview and much prefer those, as do the friends I have who live in the heart of Parkview (the Presidents streets). The problem is that the HDLC is a governmental agency and legally holds more sway, unfortunately. Even the assessor doesn’t agree, he includes the area around Ralph’s on the Park as being in the City Park neighborhood, while the HDLC includes it in Parkview.

swag

Yet another roadwork delay on the flyover ramps and the newfangled intersection.https://www.nola.com/news/article_89...2ec12efd1.html

FLYMSY

Further explanation of the diverging diamond interchange:

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/l...e-52ef077d7b25

Blumie

Disappointing, but I still think it’s not that big of a deal right now given how well traffic has been flowing through the intersection.

JAXPax

Best of luck to you all with this. My home exit here in Concord, NC is one of 3 or 4 in the Charlotte metro and I believe was one of the first in the state. People get confused, don't stay in lanes, generally just drive all over the place as the lanes swap sides. I turn to go toward my subdivision at the first traffic light after exiting from the interstate. I give up trying to make a right on red when exiting much of the time because there is a huge volume of cross traffic making U-turns, having missed the onramp in the diamond to I-485, so goes to the next intersection and turns back around. Thankfully I'm not on the opposite side of the interstate at the exit where people then have to contend with traffic circles and inexplicably just come to a stop like they've given up on life.

Blumie

Good thing New Orleanians are such good drivers 🙄

Blumie

So now that I live in New Orleans, I never expected to have to rent a car at MSY again, but I flew back from NYC today and my car, with my mechanic in Elmwood (FLYMSY, I think you referred him to me; he’s great), wasn’t ready to come home, so I rented a car for the weekend from Avis. Wow, how inconvenient. Whereas at the old terminal you would walk to the rental car center, as has been reported in this thread you now need to take a shuttle bus. That puts MSY in line with most airports, but I wasn’t expecting it to be a 20-minute bus ride. And it’s not that it’s that far away; I’ve never been on a shuttle bus that was driven that slowly! I’m pretty sure I could have walked faster. And it really was a full 20 minutes, although I felt to me more like two hours. Ugh, I hope I don’t have to do this again!

Beachfun71

hopefully there will be a direct road at some point.

swag

As the crow flies, it's under a mile. As the roads go, it's about 4 miles. But runways separate the terminal from the rental car center, so a direct road is all but impossible. The answer, of course, would be to build a new rental car center on the north side of the airport. But the old one cost almost $100 million, and was just 8 years old when the new terminal opened (just 2 years old when planning began). And the constituency for a better rental experience - visitors to the city - just doesn't have much influence.

FLYMSY

You’re welcome - for the mechanic recommendation. Glad that worked out for you. In my business, I frequently have to give recommendations for trades people.

Hopefully, you won’t have another horror story when you return the rental.

travelmad478

The one time I had to take the bus from the Economy garage (which is more or less next to the rental car center, right?) to the new terminal, the bus went through the airport and took under 10 minutes. Did your bus go on Vets, or did the driver just go REALLY slowly?

Blumie

Fortunately I’m returning to the Canal St. office.

It didn’t go on Vets, but cut over to the old airport access road adjacent to Vets AND drove really slow. In addition to driving what felt like 5 mph, every time we came to a stop sign it felt like we sat there way longer than was reasonably necessary. I found the entire experience to be torture. I’m just luck the driver wasn’t playing The Eagles:

kale73

The old access road runs parallel to Williams, not Vets.

I actually don’t mind shuttle ride, since now that the general airport traffic is all on the other side, getting in and out of the rental car garage is a breeze.

Blumie

The 20-minute shuttle bus ride was not worth the minute or two I might have saved.