My 2 Cents

Putting a Loop on top of growth make no sense what-so-ever - unless you are trying to find someone to pay for your toll road... By putting the BR Loop Toll Road through Highway 42 in Prairieville, they would basically destroy the character of our town and convert a residential area with light commercial into a major commercial highway.

Have you ever driven down Siegen during lunch or rush hour? Is traffic on that road smooth sailing or does it get backed up and congested? If anything, widening Highway 42 to look like Siegen and connecting it to the Loop would bring MORE traffic to our area - not improve it. We need our highway widened and fixed - not turned into a massive commercial corridor!

If our elected officials truly cared about the people they are paid to represent, they will protect our communities and work on transportation solutions that will work in the LONG RUN. We ask simply this: Look towards the future (after all – it will be 10 to 15 years before this project is even completed) and focus on the southern Ascension Parish Loop corridor and other options such as improving existing roads and Mass Transit.

It has been projected that the future of growth in our region will, in fact, be in that southern part of Gonzales. Wouldn’t it be nice to be ahead of the game for a change and have infrastructure in place BEFORE the boom in growth hits? This part of our parish could benefit greatly from the spark in growth the toll road would bring. Knowing this ahead of time, that the loop would go through the southern part of our parish, residential areas would not go up on that route and the land could be set asside and reserved for this purpose.

If any of us out in Prairieville liked the idea of living next to or right on Siegen, we would have moved there instead of here. Why should we loose the beauty and character of our town so some private company can make money off our misery?