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Potholes On Purpose?
I stand to lose my home on New River Road in Hinton West Virginia to the WV Highway Department who wants to turn our homes/lands over to the National Park Service whose own stated goal for the proposed parkway view is “as far as the eye can see”. Fifteen years the private property owners have been told that the highway department would “improve” and “upgrade” our road. Are the residents on New River Road, American citizens and tax payers, to lose their homes now, only to be told by the National Park Service later: “Sorry, you’re in the “View Shed” so we want your lands/ homes “as far as the eye can see” but we don’t have the money now to do what we promised you and the people of Hinton. Thanks for that prime riverside property and your homes from I-64 to Princeton (30 miles!) you worked so hard, all your lives, to have “as far as the eye can see!”
Our hard earned tax dollars are being taken and we do well to get the New River Road barely fixed in emergencies, and those same funds are now going to strip me of my property and be used to take over all the private property “as far as the eye can see” in this area for the NPS! 57,000 plus acres out of 70,000 acres from Hinton to Thurmond, ought to be more than enough for 2-3 months of so-called “recreation” to fulfill NPS (historically unfulfilled) promises after they get the land here for “as far as the eye can see”?
(And, let’s all call it, what it is: A PRIVATE PROPERTY LAND GRAB, PURPOSELY NEGLECTED NEW RIVER ROAD, SCHEME—ALL ALONG AND PERIOD!) While we, the residents along this road, await for the powers that be to figure out HOW they’re going to accomplish that land grab “as far as the eye can see”, wouldn’t one would think it would be possible to have a little “improvement”, “upgrade” to New River Road, while we’re waiting? We STILL have to get to work to pay the taxes for these roads and land grab agendas happening here and all over America “as far as the eye can see”!
We know the National Park Service has refused to support a water/sewer system along this road that lies immediately adjacent to the New River (yet claim a concern for “natural resources”?). I’m forced to wonder then if the NPS is not also dictating to the WV Department of Highways that even our road is not to be fixed unless the National Park Service gets all the land “as far as the eye can see”!
Sincerely,
Delores Hopkins /jr
3612 New River Road
Hinton WV 25951
