Crescent City Bridge Lights Hilarity

So this article LINK contains some great info proving just how many incompetent idiots work for our city/state govt.

They start by saying they have $1.3 million in recurring enhanced maintenance and utilities. Then they break down the costs of the lighting.

"Lighting costs are about $500,000 a year for the 13-mile CCC corridor that runs from the Broad Street overpass along the West Bank Expressway to the Huey P. Long Bridge. The electricity bill for decorative lamps averages about $1,500 a month, according to engineer Scott Boyle of the transportation department. Maintenance for the decorative lights is another $90,000 a year, he said."

$1500 per month plus $90,000 would be $108,000 per year. So basically 80% of the lighting costs or roughly $400,000 per year are to light the roadway. The other $800,000 goes to grass cutting and other normal tasks handled on every other roadway without dedicated funds.

So by my math if the costs of lighting and general maintenance were handled the way they are for every other road in the state you have a $4.4 million dollar fund that would essentially be able to light the bridge indefinitely if invested properly. All other maintenance and lighting should be handled as it is on other major roadways out of DOT funds and grass mowing should be offloaded to the cities the roadway runs through.

This is a perfect example of what happens when corrupt politicians insert their family and friends into cozy jobs like a banana republic. Whenever the public finally has enough and overturns them they try to exact revenge by playing games like this.

Don't even get me started on the worthless Huey P Long bridge cops.