(03-12-2015 05:14 PM)mrbig Wrote:  

(03-12-2015 03:29 PM)75src Wrote:  It should have not been that much of a burden to take the St. Charles streetcar to downtown. I guess what was missing was the campus atmosphere which why UH moved their games back on campus from the Astrodome.

The streetcar line is not close to where most of Tulane's on-campus housing is located. You have to walk across most of the campus to get from the dorms to St. Charles Ave. Moreover, the SuperDome is not all that close to the Carondolet (where the streetcar line is when it gets downtown). That is another ~8 block walk to the dome. Similar to walking from WRC to HRS to get to the streetcar, then walking the same distance again to get from the streetcar to the Dome, then doing it all over again after the game. Not to mention the 15+ minutes riding on the streetcar and the fact that on a saturday, the streetcars would sometimes be full and someone might spend a while waiting for one with open space.

Indeed. Even during normal operating times, one would sensibly allow over an hour to get from the Tulane campus to the Superdome via streetcar. Of course it COULD take less, but that is what one would have needed to allow. And Saturday nights are not normal operating schedule.