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re: HWY 73 construction finished in Prairieville - I am disappoint
Posted on 11/4/15 at 11:26 am to geauxscott
Posted on 11/4/15 at 11:26 am to geauxscott
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per the DOTD site, the plan is still 4 lanes on 42.
AWESOME!!! Way to move all that traffic from 42 right into the cluster frick intersection at Airline. Bravo
Do they plan on changing the light cycle at 73 and Airline so more than 4 cars can go thru at a time? As it is now the light backs up past Charleston Rd at 5:30 every day.
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Posted on 11/4/15 at 11:45 am to 4WHLN
They need a set up like Siegen/Sherwood Airline right there, there are too many lights, not synched too close to each other right there.
Posted on 11/4/15 at 11:49 am to Redbone
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Once again all you genius' out there, these road fixes are DOTD. Learn before you point fingers.
AP taxpayers cannot kick in extra so they can get what they need? EBR taxpayers, etc need to pay for all of your road construction needs?
Posted on 11/4/15 at 10:57 pm to lsu13lsu
I have been in AP since 1983. Going back to BR next year at some point. One of the factors in this decision is the amount of time I sit in traffic in the mornings getting out of Ascension. Just going to get worse too. Go from I-10 to Airline now on Hwy 73. There is a useless turning lane going right. 20 cars needing to turn left though.
Posted on 11/4/15 at 11:02 pm to LSUTANGERINE
The purpose is to pad politically connected pockets with contracts. Not to alleviate traffic. Duh.
I had a customer once (IT) tell me they needed x number more devices and he mentioned that he was about to win a big contract. Curiously, I asked him when he was going to win and he said he wasn't sure when they were going to put it out to bid yet but once its out to bid then it's y days and so on. I asked him how he knew he would win and he said because "its my turn".
Coincidentally he had just hired two new employees. One was a nephew of a state senator and the other a campaign staffer for somebody even higher up the chain.
The guy won the bid, as he was no doubt the low bidder. Sure enough he was able to get change requests on the contract after he already won to make the total pay out worth a lot more and the work performed was spread out over al longer amount of time, using cheaper designs, etc. Im sure he made bank on that one contract but it was a single lane expansion that will need to be widened again in 5-10 years.
I had a customer once (IT) tell me they needed x number more devices and he mentioned that he was about to win a big contract. Curiously, I asked him when he was going to win and he said he wasn't sure when they were going to put it out to bid yet but once its out to bid then it's y days and so on. I asked him how he knew he would win and he said because "its my turn".
Coincidentally he had just hired two new employees. One was a nephew of a state senator and the other a campaign staffer for somebody even higher up the chain.
The guy won the bid, as he was no doubt the low bidder. Sure enough he was able to get change requests on the contract after he already won to make the total pay out worth a lot more and the work performed was spread out over al longer amount of time, using cheaper designs, etc. Im sure he made bank on that one contract but it was a single lane expansion that will need to be widened again in 5-10 years.
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