re: Louisiana DOTD Megaprojects

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Alexandria is getting a loop before Baton Rouge. In fact, we need a loop thread. I don't think I've ever seen one.

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Get ready for a bunch of jackasses from the Live Oak/Watson area to raise hell.

Those people love to organize shite. They keep trying to incorporate the area (an area larger than BR in acreage ); they tried to stop a landowner from putting a gravel pit on his property (lawyers, state officials, and everyone from members of the school board all the way up to federal EPA got involved... they spent an insane amount of energy against that); they are fighting against widening of highway 16 north of Watson (fricking insane); they didn't want to let a man subdivide his own property; they don't want gun ranges in the parish; they tried to stop a pipe plant from building in the middle of nowhere (would add 800 jobs); they want everyone in the parish to pave their driveways (this is Livingston Parish... not the County Club of LA); and they have fought against the loop several times and will continue to fight against it.

I'm from there, born and raised, and I want the damned loop. Tired of driving through a million damned school zones and it taking over a fricking hour to get to BR.