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re: Good news, the Bluebonnet overlay work should be completed by Feb 2026
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:31 pm to RonFNSwanson
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:31 pm to RonFNSwanson
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The US? This is a Louisiana problem. Progress happens all over the country a hell of a lot faster.
Bullcrap. New Mexico, Arizona, Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, Miss. S Carolina are just a few off the top of my head with substandard highway infrastructure.
It’s the easiest budget outlay to pilferage.
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Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:03 pm to red sox fan 13
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How about we pave Nicholson? The pavement has been ripped up for almost a year now. It really adds to the third world shithole aura when out of town teams and fans come to LSU for games.
EBR taxpayers voted to widen Nicholson from LSU to Lee/Brightside in 2005.
We are still waiting.
This post was edited on 4/17/24 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:05 pm to nicholastiger
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The repaving of Jefferson Highway is now one month behind schedule due to crews discovering "unsuitable soils" while removing the old roadway.
Was the Highway initially built on unsuitable soils?
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:18 pm to doubleb
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EBR taxpayers voted to widen Nicholson from LSU to Lee/Brightside in 2005.
At least they added left turn lanes and zipper merges at the Brightside intersection. That definitely was a big help, it was such a shite show before then. Just gotta take care of the Tigerland intersection now but that one doesn't get near as bad as Brightside used.
The stretch of Nicholson from Chimes St going to downtown has been torn up for quite a while now. I thought Sherwood took long enough to get finished but this is taking the cake.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 4:14 pm to Schmelly
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Sounds like you don’t know dick. There’s no overlay anywhere. It’s remove and replace
So it's a guy talking out his arse on the Internet. Imagine that? Y'all will be lucky if this is complete by Feb 2027.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 4:18 pm to nicholastiger
4 lane-ing a 3 mile stretch of Sullivan Rd in Central is going to take 2 years, with the drainage work. The awesome thing is that it will of course run over, which means it's going to be going on while they're expanding Hooper Rd and overlaying Wax Rd. I can't wait!
Eta: what is the correct verbiage? None of them look right to me.
Eta: what is the correct verbiage? None of them look right to me.
This post was edited on 4/17/24 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 4/17/24 at 4:26 pm to Joe_Dirte
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this sounds suspicious........you can't tell me that some hwy engineer for the state didn't have a geotech report on his desk BEFORE crews actually hit the ground if sub-surface soils were a factor in design
“Unforeseen Conditions”
Posted on 4/17/24 at 4:34 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
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laying asphalt in the cold weather is not recommended. You need consistently hot weather without rain. Timing the product to get down here is tricky.
Then use something else....butbthis isn't true anyway
Posted on 4/17/24 at 5:26 pm to Walt OReilly
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Why aren’t these people working nights and weekends?
Not nice to the community.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 5:29 pm to Oswald
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unsuitable soils
Crazy how the soil conditions change right at the state line.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 5:29 pm to doubleb
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EBR taxpayers voted to widen Nicholson from LSU to Lee/Brightside in 2005.
You can vote all day. But have you voted to pay for it. There's a lot of government freeloaders around here, but contractors (and sales folk) don't work for free.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 5:32 pm to goofball
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I know the Jefferson project involves the replacement of at least some of the roadbed. And of course it's concrete so they patch it before they overlay with asphalt.
Jefferson is all concrete. No asphalt.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 5:46 pm to nicholastiger
I drive through that area every day and it’s amazing how many days there’s absolutely no work taking place.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 5:50 pm to nicholastiger
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The repaving of Jefferson Highway is now one month behind schedule due to crews discovering "unsuitable soils" while removing the old roadway.
Ahhh the (planned) unplanned change order. Now the construction company can actually make what it costs to repair instead of their low bid to secure the job.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 6:05 pm to WaterLink
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At least they added left turn lanes and zipper merges at the Brightside intersection. That definitely was a big help
Yes, it was a big help. We voted for that project at the same time we voted to widen Nicholson from LSU to that intersection.
It was all in Kip’s Greenlight Plan. Apparently the current mayor had put that on the back burner.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 6:07 pm to thegambler
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You can vote all day. But have you voted to pay for it. There's a lot of government freeloaders around here, but contractors (and sales folk) don't work for free.
We voted a bond issue, actually two bond issues to pay for it. Read up on the Greenlight Plan and MovEBR.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 7:11 pm to Indefatigable
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Has anyone given an explanation for why it will take them two years (a deadline they also won't meet) to repave a couple miles of straight road?
Because state contracts get the least attention because of rainout days etc and the low margin. So it will sit for most of that time, then when the deadline nears, they will focus briefly on it to finish it. Meanwhile, literally any other project that pays more will take precedence.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 7:23 pm to nicholastiger
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crews discovering "unsuitable soils"
AKA SELA
Posted on 4/17/24 at 7:41 pm to Indefatigable
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competent entity could create a two mile road out of a patch of wilderness in less than two years.
Depends on the owner and how good the drawings are.
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Which particular contractor is getting rich off change orders on this?
Not the contractors fault the owner doesn’t do their due diligence.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 7:47 pm to therick711
If the contractors bid on the state projects, why are the margins low? Too many contractors bidding too few projects?
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