Reply #56: there are no cable cars, i'm from new orleans, your chain is being yanked

[pitohui]

there are no cable cars in new orleans, to start with, the whole story is not true -- this person didn't talk to a cable car person, there is no such -- there are street cars, but the street car driver is like a bus driver, he's operating a vehicle full of human lives not chatting with a tourist

as far as why the french quarter didn't flood, because people are not actually stupid fuckwits, the first part of the city to be settled was the HIGHEST part of the city

the slums that were developed by evil men without a conscience in the 20th century were such places as the lower 9th ward and new orleans east, low places that they KNEW were destined to be destroyed, but which they were happy to sell to those who had few options