re: New Mobile bridge to be completed by 2031

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Does my $8 get me all the way past Buc-ees?

Or does the bridge drop me back onto I-10 at the battleship for stop and go traffic for the next 30 minutes?

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No those cheap gumps are running out of funding options for the project and are delaying the Bayway portion of the project to get the main bridge completed.

LA DOTD did the same thing with the Leeville Bridge back in 2005. The project was put out to bid with the project costing over 250 million dollars when it was initally estimated to cost 170 million to build the entire section from Leeville to Fourchon. DOTD broke up the project into smaller pieces to use the current funding they had, and the section between Leeville and Port Fourchon cost a little under 350 million dollars with the infamous 90 degree turns over water. Some of the increase in cost and short cuts were due to the spike in construction costs after Katrina and Ivan took out several interstate bridges around the time of construction. With those changes the first phase opened with just the Leeville bridge and then about 1-2 years later the portion between Leeville and Fourchon opened.

20 years later they are just now building the section between Leeville and Golden Meadow at a cost of about 450 million dollars.

I’ll pay $50 not to have the use that tunnel once a year.

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Actually opening on 2036

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Nah, thiscregion knows how to get things done. This will be close to on time. Also supports the Brookley aeroplex, home of the Airbus final assembly line. There is a need to avoid the chronic bottlenecks there.