Anyone have info on when they will resume work on adding the additional lanes? I see trucks every so often doing electrical or digging work. Are they waiting for that sewage pump construction site off Jones Creek to complete maybe?

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Posted by tigeraddict

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Member since Mar 2007

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Posted on 4/27/15 at 8:57 am to Amblin

Once the utility work is done they will start. think i read an article in the advocate a month or so back that the utility re-routes were taking longer then anticipated and would be done sometime this summer

so entergy,BR Water, ect and holding up the actual widening project

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Posted by bayou choupique

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Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:07 am to tigeraddict

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so entergy,BR Water, ect and holding up the actual widening project

bingo, don't forget to add ATT and a couple of gas companies. It was suppose to start two years ago but the low bidder was thrown out. actual road work should begin later on this year.

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Posted by Jimbeaux28

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Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:17 am to Amblin

I think they are still taking bids for the construction phase.

The biggest hold up is the sewer pumping station they are building across from the hardware store.

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Posted by bayou choupique

the banks of bayou choupique

Member since Oct 2014

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Posted on 4/27/15 at 11:01 am to Jimbeaux28

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I think they are still taking bids for the construction phase.

nope, they have a contract signed by a local contractor.

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The biggest hold up is the sewer pumping station they are building across from the hardware store.

and another nope. that pump station was under a separate contract which finished on time. It cannot serve any purpose until the construction on jones creek is complete.

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