Jan. 28 2015 EBR Parish Council votes to build sidewalk on Gardere.

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Think about that before you vote for more sales taxes for a massive road plan, massive synchronization plan and a bunch of so called "enhancements".

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Project Greenlight was a 1/2 cent sales tax plan. It has brought numerous improvements to the city's surface streets.

I don't give a frick if the city refuses to build a sidewalk in the ghetto

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Project Greenlight was a 1/2 cent sales tax plan. It has brought numerous improvements to the city's surface streets.

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The folks that administered the GL plan are gone. We are still paying the tax, however.

The plan has not been completed yet, but the folks who can't get the sidewalk started as promised want to raise taxes even higher.

Do you trust these people to do what they say ?

Fred Raiford addressed this earlier. This is from a few months ago.

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This is a great question," says Fred Raiford, the city-parish transportation and drainage director. "The city of Baton Rouge's and the state Department of Transportation and Development's federal dollars, and part of the city-parish's half-cent Green Light Plan funds, are set up to build sidewalks on the south side of Gardere Lane from Burbank Drive to Nicholson Drive. "Unfortunately, it has taken a long time to get through the engineering and review process that has to be completed when you deal with federal funds. The city-parish just received the cooperative endeavor agreement from the state and will go to council for approval by end of April. Once signed and forwarded back to the DOTD, then the bid for the work should follow. Once bids are received from DOTD and reviewed, they will forward them to us for the council to accept and approve the low bidder. "Construction should be underway by early fall."

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Everybody wants there issue fixed because it is most important to them, it takes time to get to everyone.

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Its amazing how people that dont pay hardly a dime in property tax get pissed when it takes longer to get things fixed than in neighborhoods that pay more.

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The money is in place, the project approved and you are satisfied that it takes at least four years to do a sidewalk project ?

How hard is it to draw up plans, have them approved, take bids from contractors and build a sidewalk?

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Link to the approved money?

When you pass through that neighborhood on a school day and see all the children out there waiting on buses in the weeds, next to ditches and mud puddles you have to realize that our govt. can't provide them with a sidewalk even though the money is there,

Meanwhile another school year starts and no progress has been made.

The funding was approved January of 2015.

Gardere

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The approvals allow DPW to move forward with accepting federal money to build sidewalks in Gardere and a neighborhood in North Baton Rouge. The city will used surplus money from similar projects to fund its required amount, but the federal government will be footing most of the cost. Sidewalks will be added to the side of Gardere Lane, which currently has no designated walking path. People have been hit by cars, including a bicyclist who died. Early estimates put the project at about $1.2 million.

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There are much more pressing matters for the parish...ya know, ones that matter to actual tax payers...

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Its amazing how people that dont pay hardly a dime in property tax get pissed when it takes longer to get things fixed than in neighborhoods that pay more.

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Gardere's law-abiding residents are mostly working poor people. Our shitty public transportation is vital to them.
And THEY are vital to the community as many of them prepare food at the Sonics where we check knuckles, check out our groceries at Albertsons, bake cakes and cut meat at Walmart, etc..

Providing affordable and safe access to public transportation is a COMMUNITY responsibility. You don't have to be a commie bitchbaby democrat to understand that.