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re: Nicholson @ Brightside Green Light Project
Posted on 5/14/14 at 1:29 pm to PhiTiger1764
Posted on 5/14/14 at 1:29 pm to PhiTiger1764
I drove on concrete today that was poured Monday
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Posted on 5/14/14 at 1:34 pm to Hammertime
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I drove on concrete today that was poured Monday
Quite possible. I tested the emergency road repair on La. 1 @ the Intercoastal Canal at 2 hours and 45 minutes old and it broke at 4880 psi. It had 'Super P' in it.
Posted on 5/14/14 at 1:35 pm to poochie
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Nicholson/brightside is the single worse intersection design in the history if mankind.
MRB I-10 East to I-110 begs to differ.
This post was edited on 5/14/14 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 5/14/14 at 1:37 pm to jordan21210
Boone dont hit College..............
Posted on 5/14/14 at 1:59 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
quote:
My phone updated itself and acting weird now. But good on you for being a huge bitch and calling out obvious typos. What would we do without you?
So, your phone update robbed you of your proofreading skills?
Posted on 5/14/14 at 2:03 pm to Roscoe
quote:You have never had to do work with the Rail Road Companies have you?
Does anyone know the reasons for the continued delays on this project
What ever they say goes, basically no matter what. Other obstacles are the elevation of the RR compared to nicholson and both sides of brightsides. It is going to take some major dough gaining ROW away from Nicholson, to design a big enough intersection needed.
Posted on 5/14/14 at 2:06 pm to poochie
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Nicholson/brightside is the single worse intersection design in the history if mankind.
it was basically a farmers road. then developers decided it would be a great idea to put condos what would house 1000s of people right up against the intersection without any area for redesign. yea big mistake for that farmer who didnt know it would be servicing 1000s of people 50 years ago.
quote:ill add this to this post as well. Do you retard really believe that when that intersection was "designed" i say that loosely because i believe Boyd was there way before burbank, that the designers of that 2 lane road that most likey was going to be a neighborhood street would forsee the Condo Boom of the late 2000s? which probably is 4 times the population density as a neighborhood.
boyd/burbank?
This post was edited on 5/14/14 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 5/14/14 at 2:10 pm to The Sad Banana
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I think you can drive on it after 7 days, but to fully cure is 28. I don't know if I'm remembering that right from school...I'm not on the construction side of things.
yea i take up for alot of engineering/construction issues, but the Essen debacle is laughable. there has been no work on it for 3 months. you can open a lane less than a week after concrete is poured.
Posted on 5/14/14 at 2:14 pm to CarRamrod
I was in that area last night and forgot to ride down Staring. It's still not all the way open?
Posted on 5/14/14 at 2:15 pm to Roscoe
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Does anyone know the reasons for the continued delays on this project.
Louisiana.
Posted on 5/14/14 at 2:17 pm to The Sad Banana
quote:yea the 8 million cones are still there. they are literally every 1-2ft. IDK what the contractor is doing. it would take half a day to go out remove the cones and finish striping for that to be done.
I was in that area last night and forgot to ride down Staring. It's still not all the way open?
Posted on 5/14/14 at 2:28 pm to CarRamrod
Could be a lot of stuff....
They could have grinds to do on the concrete which means the city hadn't accepted it and the contractor still owns it....
Could be they don't have any grinds and they are keeping it closed so the city gets people like you guys complaining and calling about why it isn't open and they just say screw it and we accept it, just open the road so people quit complaining....
They could have grinds to do on the concrete which means the city hadn't accepted it and the contractor still owns it....
Could be they don't have any grinds and they are keeping it closed so the city gets people like you guys complaining and calling about why it isn't open and they just say screw it and we accept it, just open the road so people quit complaining....
This post was edited on 5/14/14 at 2:31 pm
Posted on 5/14/14 at 2:35 pm to Roscoe
They have been saying this since the late 80s. It's never going to happen. They will study it until the costs double and there's no more money in the budget left to build it. Then, they will wait a couple years and study it again. Rinse, repeat, and fleece the taxpayers with more studies and mre empty promises. They could very easily fix that intersection in one night with a can of paint and a trafic light with a left turn arrow. All you have to do is turn the right turn lane into a straight and the straight into a left turn lane and put in a turn signal. They did this on Park at Perkins and it worked to perfection. It's a cheap fix that would only cost a couple hundred dollars and would work in the short term until the road can be widened, but it will NEVER happen. Why? Because government.
Posted on 5/14/14 at 2:54 pm to Drop4Loss
quote:
Boone dont hit College..............
I meant Lee, apparently. It's all the same shite.
Posted on 5/14/14 at 4:19 pm to darbour21
quote:would you want your name as a contractor tarnish for being a little shite like this? I know i wouldnt.
Could be they don't have any grinds and they are keeping it closed so the city gets people like you guys complaining and calling about why it isn't open and they just say screw it and we accept it, just open the road so people quit complaining....
Posted on 5/14/14 at 4:23 pm to kingbob
quote:You never hear about the studies that save millions of dollars do you. Kinda like good cop stories.
nd fleece the taxpayers with more studies and mre empty promises.
quote:you are telling me you want tractor trailers to shift down to a 9-10' lanes with-in a matter of 10 feet?
ey could very easily fix that intersection in one night with a can of paint and a trafic light with a left turn arrow.
they usually dont retrofit roads or intersections to a configuration that will lower the level of service. Thats the only thing i can think of.
quote:and Burbank isnt a major thoroughfare for tractor trailers.
Park at Perkins
quote:not arguing against you there.
Because government.
This post was edited on 5/14/14 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 5/14/14 at 5:38 pm to poochie
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Make the "right turn lanes" to "through lanes" and the current "through lanes" into "left turn lanes". BOOM
why they have not done this is beyond me. Why would you have dedicated right turn lane for that intersection?
Posted on 5/14/14 at 6:03 pm to zbrous4
Staring opened up four lanes yesterday (2 each way), and most of the cones were gone today. 
Not sure if it's open all the way to Highland, but it looked like it was 4 lanes all the way from Perkins to Menlo at least.
Not sure if it's open all the way to Highland, but it looked like it was 4 lanes all the way from Perkins to Menlo at least.
Posted on 5/14/14 at 6:07 pm to zbrous4
BR has always struggled with making simple adjustments to ease traffic. I've always wondered what would be so hard about synchronizing green lights. Can't be that hard bc right now the reds are synced.
Posted on 1/6/15 at 1:19 pm to biglego
I see they are starting to do road construction on the stretch of Lee between Burbank and Nicholson. Would have been nice if they could have started this project while school was out.
That aside, anyone know the continued hold up with the Nicholson/Brightside Green light? The time table on the Green Light Project continues to say they are in the "right of way" phase, which this project has been stuck on for years. If they haven't been able to work out the deal with the railroad after all this time, will a deal ever get worked out?
That aside, anyone know the continued hold up with the Nicholson/Brightside Green light? The time table on the Green Light Project continues to say they are in the "right of way" phase, which this project has been stuck on for years. If they haven't been able to work out the deal with the railroad after all this time, will a deal ever get worked out?
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