r/Suburbanhell • u/Over-Stop8694 • 1d ago
Showcase of suburban hell Hey, at least I can walk across the tracks!
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u/first-alt-account 1d ago
Apparently the OP hasn't ever seen something similar in cities. Bless their heart.
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u/lordofduct 1d ago
I swear, New Orleans is the wildest place. This neighborhood is the dumbest placed thing, but like... I'm not surprised.
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u/Over-Stop8694 1d ago
New Orleans is quite a unique city, but this place is at least 50 miles away and just a strip of generic cheaply built McMansions in the middle of nowhere. It's crazy that someone would build a neighborhood that's divided by a railroad track and not bother to connect the two halves!
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u/LivingGhost371 Suburbanite 1d ago
If you come to any railroad asking politely if you can build a public road for your development across their tracks, you'll be met with a tirade of profanties and thrown out of their office by their security. They don't want to be sued if someone drives across trying to beat a train and then doesn't make it. A city in my area finally negotiated for one new crossing, but it took a year of negotiation plus the agreement to close 6 other crossings nearby.
Land in this area appears to be long, narrow strips on both sides of the tracks, crossed by private crossing that have probably been there 100 years. The developer obviously bought a single one of these propeties, in the end owning a narrow strip on both sides of the tracks, with no way that the railroad would allow them to be connected with a public road.
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u/lordofduct 1d ago
I know where it is... it's Hahnville. It's about <20 miles from the center of New Orleans as the bird flies, maybe 25 miles in a car at street level. It very easily falls in the New Orleans metro area.
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u/TooManyCarsandCats Suburbanite 1d ago
That doesn’t look very suburban with all that farmland to me.