re: Stand Back! Livingston Parish is getting more Roundabouts, courtesy of state taxpayers

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Is this part of the infrastructure bill Biden signed? Im serious. Did they give each state a certain amount? If so, did state congress decide how it would be used?

Im just asking because there seems to be areas that are traveled by a lot more people, that should be fixed first.

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No, the "infrastructure bill" wasn't for infrastructure at all.

And certainly not roads in Livingston parish.

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W. Monroe got one a few years back and there was nothing but a bunch of crying from people that I guess were too ignorant to know how to navigate them. It turned a traffic jam red light into smooth flowing traffic. I wish they'd put more in state wide, I hate stop lights and 4-way stops.

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All of this. They have installed a few in Hammond and it a regular routine of dumb asses posting on facebook how much they hate roundabouts. They are currently building one in Ponchatoula by the Rec Park and we desperate need several more.

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No, the "infrastructure bill" wasn't for infrastructure at all.

And certainly not roads in Livingston parish.

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Yeah I am not sure you understand how government works. Where did the money come from?

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I understand that state and local governments already take in money, in the form of tax dollars, for "infrastructure", yet we all still had to go into billions upon billions of dollars of more debt to fund "infrastructure".

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I don't have a problem with money being spent on infrastructure. That's something I actually think government should fund (and there is a lot that they should cut).

With that said, is this project in LP being funded by state money or is it money given to the state from the infrastructure bill?

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Yeah I am not sure you understand how government works.

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That's rich coming from you. You do realize it says right in the article that it is from STATE FUNDING. Just actually reading what you are commenting on would do a lot for your reputation.

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Where did the money come from?

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The state, in other words, taxes at the state level.

The federal gov money used to come from taxes mostly, but now it just comes from Biden's money printer.



But honestly the chances of these roundabouts being funded by the Fed from any recent bills is zilch.

This stuff takes years to plan and obtain funding etc. Again if you would have simply read the article you would know some of these projects started in 2018.


The simple fact that you think it's even possible the government recently passed a bill and it is somehow already funding a projects that are in the works in Livingston shows your naivety.

But I'm the one that doesn't know how government works right?

You think? I know the ones at Walker and I-12 were screwed up but the ones they installed at the Hammond / Ponchatoula Mall exit on 12 work great.

Every single dollar should be spent towards a BR loop/bridge. No traffic anywhere else matters.

They need one at 16/42 by Moonlight as well.

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A roundabout at juban at 190 will be way worse than what they have now.

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LOL. No f'n way. I really don't understand how you can possibly come to that conclusion.