Stopping Interchange could Put an End to RiverPlace

     I received a letter to my request for information at the state level from the New Hampshire Department of Transportation who did a very good job of explaining to me that W/S Development wants the state to build an interchange coming off the Sagamore Bridge leading directly into and out of RiverPlace to funnel automobiles coming from the north and south via Route 3 or the Everett Turnpike right off the bridge and whisk those cars and trucks right into RiverPlace.The developer has even put a name on the asked for state interchange, naming it, ”River Place Boulevard.”

    At present there are 44,500 cars a day using the Sagamore Bridge, up 15 percent over 2004, what will the increase be if we allow this monstrosity to be built?

     In my opinion, the whole RiverPlace project depends 100 percent upon this interchange off the bridge being built for them by the State of New Hampshire.If we can stop the interchange from being built at the state level, RiverPlace, in my estimation, will not be a viable place to develop by W/S.

     We, the supporters of stopping this proposed enterprise while it is still in its larvae stage have one wonderful thing going for us and that wonderful thing is:The proposed interchange requested by W/S will have to traverse and cross 6.1 acres of prime wetlands.

     I am in the process of writing to the D.O.T. and The E.P.A. asking them not to allow these 6.1 acres of wetlands and wildlife habitat to be desecrated by a ramp into RiverPlace.Wetlands in Hudson are few and far between.What we now have as wetlands should remain as God intended that they should be, and not be defiled in any way by so called “progress.”

     If the interchange as W/S requests it is not approved to be built because of the wetlands issues brought to bear by HudsonGrassrootsCentral to the D.O.T. and E.P.A., then, once again, in my opinion, RiverPlace will became a non-entity and W/S will fold up their tents and head off into the sunset.I believe very strongly that any property owner has the right to sell their property to any buyer whose purchase and use of the property does not affect the town in any way, shape or form, however, I would not like to see a 375 acre pig farm on the Green Meadow course, nor would I like to see a nuclear power plant, nor a gigantic junk yard.RiverPlace is just too big for us.

Ron Peters - Hudson