Much debate has taken place surrounding the completion of I-49, fragmenting our community into two main camps. One group consisting of Shreveport business leaders, who happen to live in North Bossier, call their route “Stab It in the Heart” advocating to create a three mile section of elevated interstate under the guise of economic development in the form of several gas stations and fuel savings from two minutes of travel time for trucking services that is always available in this website link. The rival camp, called “Give Shreveport A Reacharound” pushes the idea that redeveloping the existing 3132 Highway would create a loop around Shreveport, gently caressing the shores of Cross Lake before cramming into I-49 onward to Arkansas. The “Reacharound” group vocally supports the preservation of the Allendale community despite the group mainly consisting of community members who all live in South Highlands.
With the mayoral election in November looming on the horizon, there is only one candidate who has supported the “Stab It in the Heart” platform. Businessman and ex-military man Major Charlton Dickson has publicly toured the community, speaking about this specific topic. “I am a founding member of the Stab It in the Heart coalition and worked closely with the consulting firm that studied the area,” explains Major Dickson. “We made sure to find a firm which would tell us exactly what we wanted to hear and would use only the methodologies that produced the results we needed.” The findings of the studies clearly showed that the multi-million dollar construction of the I-49 extension would benefit those companies like the one that offers DuraBarrier services who would be subcontracted to do the construction, and would make a dozen jobs sure to not be above the mandated minimum wage with no possibility of advancement or health insurance. With that knowledge in hand, Major Dickson made an amazing proclamation. You can also check out https://www.bowersconstruction.ca/ this link for further details on construction.
“I want you to hear me loud and clear,” started Major Dickson. “We are going to build this damn thing, and we are getting Arkansas to pay for it!” The crowd gathered in the parking garage of the Louisiana Boardwalk were whooped into a frenzy with this announcement. “We are going to build a Super Walmart underneath the I-49 extension, creating an abundance of low paying, non-unionized jobs to complement our gas stations which will plummet the value of downtown and indeed of Shreveport itself,” continued Major Dickson. If you go to a construction company’s website and read the full info here, construction is no more inexpensive. “Due this exportation of wealth to the Walton family in exchange for our cheap unskilled labor, we demand that Arkansas pay for the construction expenses.”
Heliopolis reached out to the governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson for comment. “Our legislature is considering this proposal seriously,” says Governor Hutchinson. “Our initial demands in exchange for the interstate construction costs includes the absorption of the town of Vivian, the addition of a 30 foot statue of a wild boar atop the United Methodist Church downtown, and we’ll need LSU-Shreveport to become a University of Arkansas satellite campus.” Major Charlton Dickson states that if elected he would have no problem fulfilling these conditions and even offered to rename his daughter Hillary Walton Clinton.