Coastal Bridge awarded a change order

I hope the bridge is repaired ASAP....now that I’ve said that

frick Coastal Bridge.

We found the coastal bridge employee on this board

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Man just looking at their portfolio, i do not think i would have chosen them to do a repair on a high level truss bridge of this magnitude

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the owner of coastal must have promised #honorcode some fresh blow from one of his race boats.

wafb:coastal bridge is always late #asphaltbabe

This article is the definition of fake news. All of the projects listed are road projects performed by their road division which has little or nothing to do with their bridge division. Their bridge division hasn't been late on a single project in years and has a solid reputation with the state for performing the most difficult projects ahead of schedule and below budget. CB was awarded the job because they already had an ongoing existing contract to do structural repairs and were already onsite. The LaDOTD knows they are more than capable of doing the repairs and it made all the sense in the world to get them to do the repairs.
Secondly, several of the jobs mentioned have pending plan changes to get more days added back to the contract due to plan errors, utilities, and weather. On top of that, CB doesn't owe the state 500k and even if they have piled up 750k in late fees since 2012, they do 70 million a year. So lets see, 70 million x 6 years is 420 million dollars making 750k less than 1% of total revenue.
Instead, the article should have been about how well the project is going and how CB is currently ahead of schedule. Possibly mention something about they are a local contractor and take pride that we have a locally owned business with the capabilities to perform this very difficult repair. Instead WAFB uses late road projects by a completely different division to incite fear in the public and smear the LaDOTD and CB when in reality, they are doing a wonderful job working tirelessly around the clock to get this open to the public.

for sure we just found the coastal employee.

it does not matter if it is a different division or not. As long as they are operating under coastal bridge and they have a signed contract with LADOTD if they are late on one or more contracts, they should be on the do not bid list and charged liquidated damaged.

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Their bridge division hasn't been late on a single project in years and has a solid reputation with the state for performing the most difficult projects ahead of schedule and below budget

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what about the swing span bridge in bourg? i'm pretty sure that one was late. care to mention any specific difficult bridge jobs they completed on time and below budget? care to explain why they never been awarded a design build project? James, Gilchrist, and Boh Brothers say what's up.

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Bazzatcha

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Let me guess: You are Kelly or Dixie?

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All I know is Kelly Sills is loaded with money.

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Money doesn't make you less of a D Bag.

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wait is that that company with those stupid Asphalt babe dump trucks?

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Yes. Such an idiotic tagline. Makes me cringe every time I see it.

good for him.