Well, Citizens of Ascension, our fine parish government has done it again.
Promises, promises, promises. When these people were trying to get elected they promised the moon. When our presently elected officials found their way to a remote road in St. Amant, not many people know where the latter part of Fontenot Road is, but these people found their way to the eight families at the end of this one lane road (only the latter part of this road is one lane) and promised that this road would get fixed.
We were very excited and jumped on the band wagon to help get these people elected. Before this road was so bad people were losing parts of their cars in very deep holes and people at the newspaper sent money back saying our road was too bad to deliver the paper.
Well, low and behold, they fixed our road. What a joke. The garbage they put on our road is an insult to our intelligence. We would have been better off with a gravel road. The repairs consist of refurbished (ground up asphalt) that has no telling what in it.
For sure it has hunks of metal in it that has cut one family member’s tire in four places. I have the metal to prove this. To ride on this road is taking your life in your own hands. When you ride this one mile of road you will need a neck brace and a dental appointment to repair the lose teeth in your head. It is like an old washboard.
To think our school children have to be transported to school this way is very sad. What a pity.
Maybe since we spent only $7.5 million for Lamar-Dixon and got such a great deal roads to get to our homes shouldn’t mean that much to us.
Way to go Ascension Parish government. I would like to know how many council members have to travel roads like this to get to their house.
Vanessa Melancon
St. Amant
