MSU to receive Game Changing Big Gift?

[MSU01]

Since we are speculating on the gift. I'm hoping for giant waterslide from the Brick to the stadium. Instead of walking to the stadium on game days, the players will rocket down the giant slide, slapping hands of parents and school kids lined up along the way. It will be epic.

In all seriousness, a legit water park would kill it in Bozeman. Like how Billings had Big Splash and the Big Timber Waterslides.

Aren’t both of those water parks out of business?

Minor details

I met some guy named Lyle Lanley downtown last night who was pitching the idea of a monorail connecting the airport to downtown and the MSU campus. Seemed like a nice guy, I'm sure there wouldn't be any problems with this idea.

[coloradocat]

Since we are speculating on the gift. I'm hoping for giant waterslide from the Brick to the stadium. Instead of walking to the stadium on game days, the players will rocket down the giant slide, slapping hands of parents and school kids lined up along the way. It will be epic.

In all seriousness, a legit water park would kill it in Bozeman. Like how Billings had Big Splash and the Big Timber Waterslides.

Aren’t both of those water parks out of business?

Minor details

I met some guy named Lyle Lanley downtown last night who was pitching the idea of a monorail connecting the airport to downtown and the MSU campus. Seemed like a nice guy, I'm sure there wouldn't be any problems with this idea.

Oh it's not for you, it's more of a Missoula idea.

[allcat]

Since we are speculating on the gift. I'm hoping for giant waterslide from the Brick to the stadium. Instead of walking to the stadium on game days, the players will rocket down the giant slide, slapping hands of parents and school kids lined up along the way. It will be epic.

In all seriousness, a legit water park would kill it in Bozeman. Like how Billings had Big Splash and the Big Timber Waterslides.

Aren’t both of those water parks out of business?

Minor details

I met some guy named Lyle Lanley downtown last night who was pitching the idea of a monorail connecting the airport to downtown and the MSU campus. Seemed like a nice guy, I'm sure there wouldn't be any problems with this idea.

None that money won't fix.

[TomCat88]

Never should’ve gotten away from light rail. Helena and Butte used to have 100+ years ago.

[allcat]

Never should’ve gotten away from light rail. Helena and Butte used to have 100+ years ago.

GM did that all over the country.

[St George]

Heck if you are going to think, think BIG. High Speed Rail from the airport to downtown to campus then south to Big Sky and on to West Yellowstone with intentions on getting to Old Faithful Village. You could hire Gavin Newscum to run the project and maybe get the first mile in place for a trillion dollars by 2035. By 3035 it would complete the loop up thru Gardiner to Livingston and back to Bozeman in time to Host the winter Olympics in Bozeman in 3036.

[luckyirishguy25]

God wouldn't it be nice if people kept their political ****** to themselves? some of us don't give a goddamn about your political posturing, its mostly annoying AF.

[lutecat]

Heck if you are going to think, think BIG. High Speed Rail from the airport to downtown to campus then south to Big Sky and on to West Yellowstone with intentions on getting to Old Faithful Village. You could hire Gavin Newscum to run the project and maybe get the first mile in place for a trillion dollars by 2035. By 3035 it would complete the loop up thru Gardiner to Livingston and back to Bozeman in time to Host the winter Olympics in Bozeman in 3036.

I was going to make a comment about the spending in the Big Bullsh!t Bill but agree with the above. We need to keep politics out of BN. And save your name calling for players from cUM. Its not cool to do that to other people.

[coloradocat]

Heck if you are going to think, think BIG. High Speed Rail from the airport to downtown to campus then south to Big Sky and on to West Yellowstone with intentions on getting to Old Faithful Village. You could hire Gavin Newscum to run the project and maybe get the first mile in place for a trillion dollars by 2035. By 3035 it would complete the loop up thru Gardiner to Livingston and back to Bozeman in time to Host the winter Olympics in Bozeman in 3036.

I was going to make a comment about the spending in the Big Bullsh!t Bill but agree with the above. We need to keep politics out of BN. And save your name calling for players from cUM. Its not cool to do that to other people.

Politicians, and anything related to them, should definitely be off limits for name calling.

[BelligerentBobcat]

You guys are worse than kids.

[TomCat88]

What I was getting at re: light rail/trollies etc is that we shouldn’t have gotten away from them about 100(?) years ago. I say that because had we left them in place and continued to upgrade/update them, they would’ve saved a lot of money and lives, and made for cleaner cities etc.

Helena’s downtown doesn’t look a whole lot different than it did back then. The trolley system ran up and down Lawrence, which runs from the cathedral to the west about 9-10 blocks. It intersects Last Chance Gulch, which had a trolley that ran from Helena Ave/Neill to the south to about where the library is. LCG intersects Broadway, which had one that ran from Park Ave east to the capital. I believe another ran out Helena Ave to the train depot and another went west on Hauser out the Broadwater Hotel.

As allcat pointed out GM (and Firestone, Ford?) made a big push for the automobile industry. They obviously didn’t want the competition. People now are absolutely head over heels in love with cars and trucks. So there’s no way that rail will ever make a comeback and you’ll never see anything in Montana.

Sorry I brought it up. This is my last word on it.

[grizzh8r]

What I was getting at re: light rail/trollies etc is that we shouldn’t have gotten away from them about 100(?) years ago. I say that because had we left them in place and continued to upgrade/update them, they would’ve saved a lot of money and lives, and made for cleaner cities etc.

Helena’s downtown doesn’t look a whole lot different than it did back then. The trolley system ran up and down Lawrence, which runs from the cathedral to the west about 9-10 blocks. It intersects Last Chance Gulch, which had a trolley that ran from Helena Ave/Neill to the south to about where the library is. LCG intersects Broadway, which had one that ran from Park Ave east to the capital. I believe another ran out Helena Ave to the train depot and another went west on Hauser out the Broadwater Hotel.

As allcat pointed out GM (and Firestone, Ford?) made a big push for the automobile industry. They obviously didn’t want the competition. People now are absolutely head over heels in love with cars and trucks. So there’s no way that rail will ever make a comeback and you’ll never see anything in Montana.

Sorry I brought it up. This is my last word on it.

Not necessarily... It's not light rail, but Amtrak was recently discussed for southern Montana...

https://www.rtands.com/passenger/montan ... of-debate/

[RickRund]

What I was getting at re: light rail/trollies etc is that we shouldn’t have gotten away from them about 100(?) years ago. I say that because had we left them in place and continued to upgrade/update them, they would’ve saved a lot of money and lives, and made for cleaner cities etc.

Helena’s downtown doesn’t look a whole lot different than it did back then. The trolley system ran up and down Lawrence, which runs from the cathedral to the west about 9-10 blocks. It intersects Last Chance Gulch, which had a trolley that ran from Helena Ave/Neill to the south to about where the library is. LCG intersects Broadway, which had one that ran from Park Ave east to the capital. I believe another ran out Helena Ave to the train depot and another went west on Hauser out the Broadwater Hotel.

As allcat pointed out GM (and Firestone, Ford?) made a big push for the automobile industry. They obviously didn’t want the competition. People now are absolutely head over heels in love with cars and trucks. So there’s no way that rail will ever make a comeback and you’ll never see anything in Montana.

Sorry I brought it up. This is my last word on it.

Not necessarily... It's not light rail, but Amtrak was recently discussed for southern Montana...

https://www.rtands.com/passenger/montan ... of-debate/

We would absolutely love to see something like this happen. We’ve traveled a bit on Amtrak and enjoy it. Amtrak is terribly disfunctional, rarely on time, but such a relaxing way to travel. The big issue is funding. If I am not mistaken most all are subsidized by the government. BART is a decent way to go around the Bay Area but I believe is deeply funded by government and by government I mean the federal government. Others can chime in to correct me if I am wrong.

That would allow us to make more games. At our age the travel is the big issue. We DO NOT travel after dark.