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re: Why does interstate work take so long? The 18 mile Atchafalaya stretch took 2 years
Posted on 2/16/26 at 11:22 am to Ramblin Wreck
Posted on 2/16/26 at 11:22 am to Ramblin Wreck
If you watch over the contractors it takes years to insure we get adequate roads built, if you dont watch over em they build shite that crumbles in 5 years. One way you overspend because you are redoing em, the other you are overspending because it takes forever. These road construction companies aint hurting.
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Posted on 2/16/26 at 11:29 am to Cosmo
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I was told this is finally finished?
It is. But they are still working the same areas between Orange and Beaumont.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 11:31 am to Ramblin Wreck
With funding not keeping up with inflation, the only way contractors can make $$ is to drag out projects, collude and do shitty work.
And Louisiana is broke because the state’s economy is garbage.
And Louisiana is broke because the state’s economy is garbage.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 12:08 pm to Tarps99
Tyfys you just reminded me I have a bill from a toll road in Texas.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 3:34 pm to Ramblin Wreck
1. Time restrictions and setting up/taking down traffic control in live lanes.
2. 99% of designs are done by engineers that have never done a single day of field work and are obvious to actual construction. They also design based off of Google Earth and not actual field layout.
3. Bureaucracy - these projects have money coming from multiple sources and involve way to much oversight. Office people/politicians want to be hands on and ask for more shite constantly.
4. Every plan change/change order has to be approved by WAY TO MANY levels of Parish/State/Federal bureaucrats (and all but 2-3 are not even involved in the actual job)
Ex: contractor starts excavating for drainage and finds a giant concrete duct bank, gas line, water line, fiber optics running exactly where the pipe runs. There is NEVER any record of who it belongs to or if it’s even active. So now it’s a redesign, 7 levels of approval, coordinating with utility companies that don’t give a shite about your schedule. That will add a year of stoppage time EASILY.
5. ZERO communication between government entities. Ex: New Orleans S&WB doesn’t communicate with anyone and is notorious for tearing up brand new roads with a week of the installation and they just dump sand in their jacked up “repair”.
**I work in this business (17 years) and I have seen at least 25 million dollars of tax payer money WASTED because of all the levels of retardation involved in every job.
2. 99% of designs are done by engineers that have never done a single day of field work and are obvious to actual construction. They also design based off of Google Earth and not actual field layout.
3. Bureaucracy - these projects have money coming from multiple sources and involve way to much oversight. Office people/politicians want to be hands on and ask for more shite constantly.
4. Every plan change/change order has to be approved by WAY TO MANY levels of Parish/State/Federal bureaucrats (and all but 2-3 are not even involved in the actual job)
Ex: contractor starts excavating for drainage and finds a giant concrete duct bank, gas line, water line, fiber optics running exactly where the pipe runs. There is NEVER any record of who it belongs to or if it’s even active. So now it’s a redesign, 7 levels of approval, coordinating with utility companies that don’t give a shite about your schedule. That will add a year of stoppage time EASILY.
5. ZERO communication between government entities. Ex: New Orleans S&WB doesn’t communicate with anyone and is notorious for tearing up brand new roads with a week of the installation and they just dump sand in their jacked up “repair”.
**I work in this business (17 years) and I have seen at least 25 million dollars of tax payer money WASTED because of all the levels of retardation involved in every job.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:14 pm to Ramblin Wreck
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Seems like they started the new Pecue exit in Baton Rouge 5 years ago. A person I work with commented at the time it would help my commute time. I told him I would probably be retired and moved away from Baton Rouge before it was opened. I’m retiring and this is my last month in Baton Rouge and guess what?
Well, they opened it today so they got it in before you retired.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:31 pm to Ramblin Wreck
In Houston they just dig up a road, put up some cones and barriers and thats it. Might work on it one day per week. MIGHT.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:33 pm to Ramblin Wreck
A lot of the regulations we have now didn't exist when that bridge was built.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:40 pm to BigBinBR
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Well, they opened it today so they got it in before you retired.
I am amazed and hopefully it eliminates some of the Highland exit traffic for my friends I made during my time living in Baton Rouge. I would love to see the new side road at Pecue connect to Old Perkins at Barringer Foreman Rd.
This post was edited on 2/18/26 at 1:44 pm
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:46 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Because the longer it takes, the more money the contractor makes
Are these projects done on a lump sum basis? It has to be a nightmare for the contractor if so. I could imagine it's a bitch getting any type of CO approved for federal/state projects.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 3:35 pm to Rize
I moved to Houston in 2018 and they've already widened it twice since then. I think there's only been a 2 year span since I moved there where there wasn't any work being done.
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