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See what Bourbon Street will look like after major infrastructure overhaul
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:25 pm
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:25 pm
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City officials are about to begin the most extensive Bourbon Street infrastructure overhaul in years, digging up all of the asphalt from Canal Street to Dumaine Street and replacing it with eight inches of white concrete. The construction schedule means that starting sometime after French Quarter Fest, major areas of Bourbon Street will become a construction zone over the next eight months.
Using concrete instead of asphalt is typically more expensive, but city officials said it will be easier to maintain because it will be poured in sections and those sections can be removed and replaced. Renderings of the new look for Bourbon Street give the thoroughfare a cleaner, brighter look, but concrete sections on Iberville Street have weathered significantly over the years.
The work will be done over an unusually tight timeline that Department of Public Works Director Mark Jernigan said will mean work crews will need to work 12 hours a day, six days a week, beginning at 6 a.m. The work will take place Monday through Saturday, starting in late April, and will include replacing drain lines, water lines and repairing and lining sewers. Entergy also plans to replace steel gas lines with high-pressure gas lines.
"We're compressing the schedule as much as we can to get it done as quickly as we can," Jernigan said. "The timeline we're working off of, one way or another, we're going to be done by the end of the year."
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Not nearly as bad as I thought it might be.
This post was edited on 3/31/17 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:26 pm to LSUTANGERINE
where are the pools of urine and dead bodies ?
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:26 pm to LSUTANGERINE
It'll look like that for MAYBE one day
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:27 pm to LSUTANGERINE
How is that substantially different than now?
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:27 pm to LSUTANGERINE
So concrete instead of blacktop?
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:28 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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LSUTANGERINE
quote:black replaced by white
digging up all of the asphalt from Canal Street to Dumaine Street and replacing it with eight inches of white concrete
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:28 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Dat arse under the jester sign
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:30 pm to LSUTANGERINE
They probably paid $50k for that shitty rendering
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:30 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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The initial cost of the project is being estimated at $4 million, Jernigan said, although there is additional funding coming from the Sewerage and the Water Board that will likely increase the total cost.
$4 million to fix a street that doesn't need to be fixed...WHAT THE frick
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:31 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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LSUTANGERINE
But how is it racist?
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:32 pm to wizziko
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$4 million to fix a street that doesn't need to be fixed...WHAT THE frick
4M won't put a dent in the total cost of this scope of work.
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:33 pm to wizziko
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$4 million to fix a street that doesn't need to be fixed...WHAT THE frick
And they'll probably be some S&WB frickup that causes them to have to dig it up a month after they finish it.
This post was edited on 3/31/17 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:33 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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we're going to be done by the end of the year."
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:33 pm to upgrayedd
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They probably paid $50k for that shitty rendering
YES! It looks like a 12-year-old tried to learn MS paint.
I think this is an April fools joke.
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:33 pm to LSUTANGERINE
12 hours a day. 6 days a week
in new orleans
no way this is done in a year
in new orleans
no way this is done in a year
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:33 pm to LSUTANGERINE
sacrilegious to see those streets so clean and culcha-free
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:36 pm to OWLFAN86
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where are the pools of urine
Probably in your bed.
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:36 pm to LSUTANGERINE
One weekend will have it looking rough. At least the asphalt was darker and hid the stains.
Posted on 3/31/17 at 9:40 pm to Flashback
What are the issues with bourbon street? Crime? values not aligned with the city?
I am imagine that 90% of locals don't step foot on Bourbon Street, or even a couple blocks in the vicinity.
Charge an admission fee at ten different entrances with metal detectors. There are no entry fees at any bars so it's reasonable.
I am imagine that 90% of locals don't step foot on Bourbon Street, or even a couple blocks in the vicinity.
Charge an admission fee at ten different entrances with metal detectors. There are no entry fees at any bars so it's reasonable.
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