Information on the Lafayette La Amtrak station

[Save Our Trains Michigan]

Information for passenegrs using the station at Lafayette La

The parking lot that Amtrak passengers can use is now being locked up after city hours and is not open at all on sundays the parking lot is locked at 7 pm each night.

Which means that if the train is late and you leave your car in the parking lot you will be locked in and there is no way out there is no pay phone outside.

The station waiting room is also locked up after city hours and not open at all on sunday.

The reason for all of this is Amtrak and the city have no contract on using the parking lot or the building at this time.

 

[Save Our Trains Michigan]

This issue was brought to the attition of local mgt and the issue regarding the gates beeing locked after city hours should now be left open after city hours.

 

[The Metropolitan]

I guess it's only a temporary inconvenience anyway, being with the 180 day notices served them back in July.

 

[1702]

I guess it's only a temporary inconvenience anyway, being with the 180 day notices served them back in July.

I believe they're storing all those FedEx envelopes at the Lafayette station. May also be where all those Amtrak employees who were "fired on the spot" get together.

 

[Anthony]

Some people just won't let things go, will they, despite my post in the second thread on the topic.

 

[Sheer Luck Holmes]

Isn't this just another example of not having a joined up transport policy?

SLH

 

[boratwanksta]

That's real unfortunate to hear(unless the nearby neighborhood doesn't have restrictions on overnight parking, which who knows if there's any other legal parking or long-term parking nearby, other than that now-locked up lot...). Way for the city of Lafayette to slight Amtrak commuters and potential city visitors, rather than encourage them to ride the train.... :angry:

 

[Chuck]

....Way for the city of Lafayette to slight Amtrak commuters and potential city visitors, rather than encourage them to ride the train..

You gotta realize that progress comes slow in downtown Lafayette. For years there was a station there but it was locked up. Then somebody burned it down and for several more years it was just the walls of a burned out hulk. The old downtown area has been going downhill for years, and at night now there are zombie persons who come out from the cracks in the sidewalk, enough to rival any major US metro city for creepyness. We heard stories of Toyota and Honda who were going to open huge plants in south Louisiana, but went to Mississippi and Alabama instead after seeing what the downtown of Lafayette looked like.

Lafayette is a great place, and the college is one of the best in the country. But for farsighted transportation thinkers, they got the short end of the stick.

Just be happy the station has been renovated and is open again. It only took 20 years and 200 million federal dollars to make it happen.