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Are You Ready?

June 13, 2012 by Charlie London

Readiness starts with you

Whether manmade or natural, every emergency situation is different, and requires both citizen and City to be prepared. From the Final Four to the Super Bowl, all-hazards alerts to hurricane evacuations, 24/7, 365 days a year, agencies across the City of New Orleans work to keep you safe and our city prepared for any event or emergency.  

For our City to be ready, our citizens must be ready. 

We must take all take important steps to prepare for an emergency. At NOLA Ready, we provide all the information residents need to travel their own road to being ready, including how to:

  • Get Informed
  • Make A Plan
  • Gather Supplies
  • Leaving Town
  • Coming Home
  • Get Involved
  • Sign The Pledge

City-Assisted Evacuation

City-Assisted Evacuation assists Orleans Parish residents and/or tourists who cannot self-evacuate during a mandatory City-wide evacuation by providing transportation from designated City evacuation pick-up points to the Union Pacific Terminal bus station, for outbound transportation to State and Federal shelters. Learn more here.

Sign the NOLA Ready pledge

Join Mayor Mitch Landrieu and make a commitment to the City committed to you. Make a Plan. Mark Your Name.

Because I love New Orleans, I know how I will leave New Orleans. I am New Orleanian. I am NOLA Ready.

Sign the Pledge


Get notified: Emergency Alerts

Accurate, immediate information, straight from the City of New Orleans to you via text, call, or email.  NOLA Ready is the CIty of New Orleans' emergency alert system and official source of information about every emergency situation, from power electrical outages to hurricane evacuations. What you need to know, when you need to know it, wherever you need to know it. Sign up here.

 

  • NOLA Ready
    • Get Emergency Alerts. Get NOLA Ready
    • Get Informed
    • Make a Plan
      • City-Assisted Evacuation Application
    • Gather Supplies
    • Leaving Town
    • Coming Home
    • Seniors & Medical Needs
    • Pets
    • Businesses
    • Get Involved
    • Sign The Pledge
    • Partners in Preparedness
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Feedback

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Million Dollar Ride

May 24, 2012 by Charlie London

by Charlie London

Upon returning from the May 10th BlightStat meeting, I had the opportunity to, once again, ride New Orleans’ fine public transportation.

Click on the map for a larger view

If you haven’t taken a ride on a New Orleans streetcar or bus lately you really are missing out.

The streetcar operator told me each one of these refurbished streetcars cost 1 million dollars!

Get a great view of New Orleans’ architecture. Take the bus or the streetcar!

Architectural Vignettes
New Orleans, with its richly mottled old buildings, its sly, sophisticated – sometimes almost disreputable – air, and its Hispanic-Gallic traditions, has more the flavor of an old European capital than an American city. Townhouses in the French Quarter, with their courtyards and carriageways, are thought by some scholars to be related on a small scale to certain Parisian “hotels” – princely urban residences of the 17th and 18th centuries. Visitors particularly remember the decorative cast-iron balconies that cover many of these townhouses like ornamental filigree cages.

European influence is also seen in the city’s famous above-ground cemeteries. The practice of interring people in large, richly adorned aboveground tombs dates from the period when New Orleans was under Spanish rule. These hugely popular “cities of the dead” have been and continue to be an item of great interest to visitors. Mark Twain, noting that New Orleanians did not have conventional below-ground burials, quipped that “few of the living complain and none of the other.”

One of the truly amazing aspects of New Orleans architecture is the sheer number of historic homes and buildings per square mile. Orleanians never seem to replace anything. Consider this: Uptown, the City’s largest historic district, has almost 11,000 buildings, 82 percent of which were built before 1935 – truly a “time warp.”

The spine of Uptown, and much of New Orleans, is the city’s grand residential showcase, St. Charles Avenue, which the novel A Confederacy of Dunces aptly describes: “The ancient oaks of St. Charles Avenue arched over the avenue like a canopy…St. Charles Avenue must be the loveliest place in the world. From time to time…passed the slowing rocking streetcars that seemed to be leisurely moving toward no special designations, following their route through the old mansions on either side…everything looked so calm, so prosperous.”

The streetcars in question, the St. Charles Avenue line, represent the nation’s only surviving historic streetcar system. All of its electric cars were manufactured by the Perley Thomas Company between 1922 and 1924 and are still in use. Hurricane Katrina flood waters caused severe damage to the steel tracks along the entire uptown and Carrollton route and had to be totally replaced and re-electrified. The cars themselves survived and are included in the National Register of Historic Places. New Orleanians revere them as a national treasure.

Creole cottages and shotgun houses dominate the scene in many New Orleans neighborhoods. Both have a murky ancestry. The Creole cottage, two rooms wide and two or more deep under a generous pitched roof with a front overhang or gallery, is thought to have evolved from various European and Caribbean forms.

The shotgun house is one room wide and two, three or four rooms deep, under a continuous gable roof. As legend has it, the name was suggested by the fact that because the rooms and doors line up, one can fire a shotgun through the house without hitting anything.

Some scholars have suggested that shotguns evolved from ancient African “long-houses,” built here by refugees from the Haitian Revolution, but no one really knows.

It is true that shotguns represent a distinctively Southern house type. They are also found in the form of plantation quarters houses. Unlike shotgun houses in much of the South, which are fairly plain, New Orleans shotguns fairly bristle with Victorian jigsaw ornament, especially prominent, florid brackets. Indeed, in many ways, New Orleans shotguns are as much a signature of the city as the French Quarter.

New Orleans’ architectural character is unlike that of any other American city. A delight to both natives and visitors, it presents such a variety that even after many years of study, one can still find things unique and undiscovered.

This material may be reproduced for editorial purposes of promoting New Orleans. Please attribute stories to New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. 2020 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70130 504-566-5019. http://www.neworleanscvb.com/.

Filed Under: Featured, HISTORY, Magical Mystery Tour Tagged With: bayou, bayou st john, bus, faubourg st john, million dollar ride, New Orleans, public transportation, streetcar

BIKE RACK

February 15, 2012 by Charlie London


Portland Bike Parking: Corral vs Oasis from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

A PDF of an ad for San Francisco’s plan

Please visit the link below to learn more about BIKE CORRALS in San Francisco

http://sfbike.org/corrals


    Click here to read about how bike corrals provide 12-for-1-parking

Portland and San Francisco have bike corrals but where else?

Chicago has corrals:
http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdot/provdrs/bike/news/2011/jul/chicago_s_first_on-streetbikecorralinstalled.html

Vancouver has corrals:
http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/transport/cycling/parking/corrals.htm

Columbia Missouri:
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/04/24/new-downtown-bike-corrals-ask-voluntary-meter-paym/

The Big Apple:
http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/08/18/eyes-on-the-street-nycs-first-bike-corral-underway-on-smith-street/

This BIKE RACK was installed recently on Loyola near Common. This would be a great bike rack to have in Faubourg St. John. The bike rack is made by DERO.

Click HERE to see some innovative bike rack designs.

Click HERE to read about a fundraising effort by a Cleveland cafe for a bike corral.

You may remember this photo from my “Day Tripping” post. This unique bus stop is also on Loyola near Common.

https://fsjna.org/2011/12/day-tripping/

Filed Under: More Great Posts! Tagged With: bayou st john, bicycle, bike, bus, common, corral, dero, faubourg st john, fsjna, loyola, New Orleans, rack

New Bus Stop Signs

August 10, 2011 by Charlie London

New signs were installed today throughout the city. The sign above can be seen all along Esplanade Avenue. Click on the sign to see where Bus Route 91 goes!

With your internet enabled smartphone just go to www.NORTA.com to find out where and when the city bus runs. The city busses are clean, efficient and use biodiesel! Soon, New Orleans Regional Transit Authority will activate a new automated system at RIDELINE (504-248-3900). Callers will be able to key in a stop number and hear up-to-the-minute status reports.

Filed Under: Featured, HISTORY Tagged With: bayou st john, bus, bus phone, bus schedule, esplanade, faubourg st john, fsjna, iphone, New Orleans, sign, stop

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