re: BR City Park Lakes cleanup announcement

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It actually looks pretty cool

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Now we just wait and see if it ever actually gets far enough along to be a reality while taxes are used for other portions of this lake master plan.

In a year or two from now, once the taxes from movEBR have been used to dredge lakes and the roads/sidewalks haven't been started, the money will again be moved to another fund

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Damn yall are an angry bunch when you dont have a clue whats going on... If, at minimum, you actually look at the sketch of the plans, you would be able to tell that these plans arent just there to get rid of weeds. They are building what looks to be bridges, connecting some of the lakes, walking paths, green spaces, and a bunch of other things. It actually looks pretty cool and should be a nice addition.

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All of that is gingerbread.

Job one should be to create a low maintenance lake that provides some stormwater holding value. It is after all part of a drainage basin.The design and engineering of the lake and drainage system should be job 1.

And then yes, the sidewalks, brides, park, etc. features can be done.

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Damn yall are an angry bunch when you dont have a clue whats going on.

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Don't tell me I don't know what I am talking about, then explain that you have no idea what I am talking about.

I am talking about a tax being pushed to alleviate the nightmare that is BR traffic. People voted for it, thinking that This time, maybe this time, something will actually happen.

The roads are about 6% better than they were in 1980. The traffic has almost doubled. The EBR population is about the same, but all of the new residents of Ascension and Livingston, that were forced out of BR still come in and use the roads daily.

It is an abortion.

This is what I am talking about, yet you come and tell me how they are going to build some nice walkways and plant flowers around the lakes. This is going to use money that is supposed to build MAJOR roads and alleviate the traffic clusterfrick.

frick adding 1 more mile of lane on the Interstate every 5 years. frick widening Perkins. Build some fricking big roads that are 10 lanes wide per side. Look where the traffic backs up and add 5 lanes, per side, there. Do it now.

Then get a vote going for a tax to build your little walkways and green space, until your brown space tingles.