re: West side Expressway with new bridge ( aka Loop) gaining traction

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Why are parishes on board with this but not the loop?

This is the southern loop Ascension and Iberville didn't want.

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Ascension wanted the bridge, but "the loop" was a toll road with an unprecedentedly wide right of way, that was proposed in order in conjunction to new zoning that would simultaneously de-value residential property, allow the property to be imminent domain-ed on the cheap, have the toll road built while controlling where all of the on-ramps, off-ramps, and overpasses go, and then selling the remaining "right of way" back to developers at rock bottom prices, just in time for the land to be re-zoned as dense commercial/mixed use residential property. The developers make a ton, the old families lose their homes and homesteads, and the loop swings so far south that no one uses it.

However, a Southern loop is needed, but many of the proposed routes were simply massive land snatching schemes.