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re: Why are Louisiana road contractors so terrible?
Posted on 11/30/23 at 6:33 am to Rocklicker
Posted on 11/30/23 at 6:33 am to Rocklicker
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The I-10 widening through Baton Rouge is going to take 20 years if this continues.
Thank smack smack for this one... he wont allow the Washington St exit to be shut down. Doesn't want to inconvenience the 5 motorists crazy enough to exit there.
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Posted on 11/30/23 at 6:42 am to Twenty 49
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My main complaint is the results, not the delays. Our new highways and interstates are bumpy, potholed pieces of shite within a few years. "It's the Louisiana heat" they tell us. Well, it gets just as hot in Texas and Oklahoma, and their roads are magnitudes better than ours. Do we allow cheaper material, shoddier methods, or what?
I’ve never heard someone blame the heat…it’s more likely due to the fact that everything south of I-10 was once a swamp. The roads in N Louisiana don’t have the same issues
Posted on 11/30/23 at 6:42 am to Twenty 49
You have soil issues as well. Alluvial soil and the soils in Texas and OK are not the same.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 6:44 am to Rocklicker
Hell man eerybody knows that smart money is in the paving bidness. Get one contract to build even a short road and you have guaranteed at least one generation of your family will have a job their entire life. Invest about $1000 in cones, buy a couple of dilapidated track hoes and dump trucks and move them about once a month and hire 8-10 guys and outfit them with shovels and have them walk around the site and you can bill the DOT for hundreds of thousands of dollars every 30 days for years! You won't ever have to actually build, grade, cut or pave anything...just frick up traffic with the cones, have the guys lean on their shovels and move the tractors and trucks a couple of times a month and you are golden. You may or may not need to rent some lights and pretend you're doing something after dark a couple of times over a 25 year period but you will have to play that by ear. To make the operation look really legitimate hire some cops as security, but only if the county will allow them to use their cop cars in their side hustle...have them park at either end of the cones with their blue lights on, completely fricking up traffic, and no one will ever notice that there ain't been an inch of new work done in 30 years. More correctly, a pile of folks will have noticed nothing has been done, no one will care enough to ask why. Its the best scam errrrrrrr business ever....
Posted on 11/30/23 at 6:48 am to Rocklicker
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Phase ta-two of the I-10 widening project began this week
Posted on 11/30/23 at 6:54 am to Rocklicker
I complained for a while about how long construction between Beaumont and the La border was taking, just to realize over Thanksgiving that Louisiana just started it’s part. 
I’m guessing a decade that the portion between the border and Lafayette are a complete shite show. I guess there’s always that adult video store to pull off at.
I’m guessing a decade that the portion between the border and Lafayette are a complete shite show. I guess there’s always that adult video store to pull off at.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 6:57 am to S
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Texas could complete the entire project in probably 3 or 4 years
No doubt, but would they??? What would compel them to stop billing the DOT every 30 days??? They'd be damned fools to build any road project in 5 years.
We had the county take about 1000 square feet each off 9 lots we owned that were on a state highway in 1999 to widen the state highway. Immediately after buying that 9000 square feet of dirt they moved our fence and moved 1 power pole and one storm drain about 5 feet further from the road. They have done nothing else since 1999 LOL.
That project is, however, ongoing. Same project, about 7 miles total they are widening. The broke ground at the end of the project the same week they replaced our fence in 1997. It is 26 years later and they have about 1.5 miles of that project probaly 65% complete. The other 5.5 miles? They have not touched it since 1997.
About 3 years ago, however, they had a developer build a massive subdivision on this road in that 7 mile project. That development needed a traffic light and a 2 lane road widened to 4 for turning lanes. The widening of that portion of the road is about 1/4 mile in either direction. A 1/2 mile total, on traffic signal and associated striping. They started that project on a Friday evening and the following Friday the paving and striping was done and the traffic signal was on flash for the required 30 day period before it became operational. Exactly 7 days. 1/2 mile of ripping out existing pavement, grading, gravel, packing, re-paving, striping and installing a traffic signal. That project supposedly cost just under $1.2 million. Meanwhile the same contractor has taken 23 years to accomplish about 1/10th as much progress just 3 miles away on the same road LOL.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 7:03 am to BabyTac
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I complained for a while about how long construction between Beaumont and the La border was taking, just to realize over Thanksgiving that Louisiana just started it’s part.
I’m guessing a decade that the portion between the border and Lafayette are a complete shite show. I guess there’s always that adult video store to pull off at.
I lived in Vinton Louisiana in 1982 and I-10 from Lake Charles to Beaumont was under construction then. From the Sabine River to Orange it was under heavy, active construction....I was in that area 3 years ago and I swear to god as my witness it does not look like they have finished a mile of any of that work in 40 years. That is Louisiana and Texas.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 7:04 am to Rocklicker
They were out there yesterday trimming trees and surveying the edge of the right of way by the LSU lakes.
They were on the westbound side.
They were on the westbound side.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 7:05 am to AwgustaDawg
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Texas could complete the entire project in probably 3 or 4 years
Not the crew they have working on the Beaumont area highways.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 7:15 am to StrikeIndicator
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No loop in our lifetime
In the summer of 1982 I had a job with an electrical contractor in Atlanta that did traffic and street lighting all over the south east. Georgia Power was building 2 nuclear power units south of Augusta Georgia at the time and the state made a deal with the Southern Company that the exit going to the powerhouse off the interstate loop around Augusta would be lit. The company I worked for had the contract and about August of 1982 we delivered the poles and lights and rebar cages for that project to that interstate interchange. 1982. Georgia Power was building 2 nuclear power reactors. Fast forward to October 2020. Georgia Power is building 2 more reactors at that power plant. Those lights, poles and rebar cages are still lying where we unloaded them in 1982. 38 years later. The Georgia Department of Transportation took longer to install 4 pole lights than the Southern Company took to license, design, build and start up 4....yes 4....nuclear reactors. Those lights were installed in February of this year. 41 years almost after I helped unload those lights in that interchange they were installed. The state cut the fricking grass around those poles and those lights for 41 fricking years LOL. Georgia Power put 4 nuclear reactors on line in that time period. Thats is how good a gig with the state DOT is...it does not matter which state, all of them are equally corrupt.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 7:17 am to Rocklicker
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Texas could complete the entire project in probably 3 or 4 years and Louisiana is planning for 20 years.
Have you ever been to Texas?
Posted on 11/30/23 at 7:35 am to Capt ST
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1 week in and already 2 weeks behind.
There are a significant amount of weather days built into every contract. It usually does not make the nightly news when the contractor takes a weather day.
But hey it’s sure fun to bitch about things we don’t know about.
This post was edited on 11/30/23 at 7:37 am
Posted on 11/30/23 at 7:35 am to S
I was going to say clearly this person has t been through orange Texas. That shite had been going on since the early 2000s it seems.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 7:50 am to Rocklicker
Because they don't have to complete quality work on time, they just have to keep the campaign donations rolling.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 7:53 am to Rocklicker
After paying off all of the public officials to win the bid, there’s not much left for materials and labor 
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:20 am to Rocklicker
Carruption?
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:30 am to member12
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Not the crew they have working on the Beaumont area highways.
Are you sure, by now that crew is made up of the children or grand children of the original crew.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:36 am to S
Guess u haven't made an i10 trip to Houston lately. Worse than anything I ever seen. Miles of deadlock interstate traffic on both sides in multiple areas.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:38 am to Rocklicker
Imagine a swamp.
Then try building a highway on it.
Congratulations. You have now imagined that you live in South Louisiana.
Then try building a highway on it.
Congratulations. You have now imagined that you live in South Louisiana.
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