The Lafayette City-Parish Council, in its dual role as the Metropolitan Planning Organization, was briefed on long-range traffic infrastructure plans for the parish, including the widening of Verot School Road and the construction of a frontage road system for Interstate 10.
The council accepted the findings of a frontage road study for I-10 that would utilize a one-way frontage road system along the interstate using so-called x-ramp configurations at major crossing arteries from La. 93 in Scott eastward to La. 354, which marks the Lafayette-St. Martin parish line. The project is currently in the feasibility stage and will cost between $100 million and $150 million, depending on whether bridges along the route are replaced or simply improved.
Former councilman Jerry Trumps, who is now working with LCG’s Traffic and Transportation Department on the project, told the council the frontage road system is many years from reality. “We still have to jump through some more hoops to make that happen,” he said.
The council also learned that the cost of widening Verot School Road has risen since the last estimate, from roughly $17 million to just over $25 million, a rise due in part to additional infrastructure needs along the route. The widening of Verot is also taking longer than expected: The project was originally planned to go out for bid in 2008. Bidding on the project is now anticipated for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN : , December 23, 2009 - 04:00 pm
AY, RICKY! NOW IS THE MOMENT DON'T LET IT PASS YOU BY, THE TICKET IS SECESSION................. SURELY WHAT BENEFITS, THE HOOD DERIVES FROM BEING INCLUDED AS A MINORITY "RED-HAID STEPCHILD OF JODU'NT'S LAFAYETTE PARISH, IS NOWHERE AS PROMISING FOR THE HOOD, AS SUCESSION, THIS WOULD ENTITLE DA HOOD TO MORE REPS/AND MAYBE OUR OWN HOME GROWN-MAYOR. SHEEEEET, WE KNOW THE TAXES WE PAY WID THE POOR PEEPS IS QUADRUPLE THE TAXES THE ELITE PEEPS PAY OVAH ON DA OTHER SIDE DA RR XXXXXXXX BY DA UNDERPASS. HELL, WE GOT *COX, *AT$T, *SLEMCO, *DA WAL-MART, AND DA BREAUXS MART, WHAT ELSE WE NEED. TINK ABOUT IT, BRO................. MERRY CHRISTMAS, BRO! DON'T WAIT ON SANTA, DEY AIN'T NO "DUSKY SANTA.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN : , December 28, 2009 - 05:52 pm
AY, MAH FREN FROM SAN ANTONE VISITED LAF. AND NOTICED THE EXPANSION OF OUR FINE CITY............HE IS THE TRAFFIC AND BYWAY DEVELOPMENT CO-ORDINATOR IN SAN ANTONE, AND RETURNED HOME WITH 30000 GALLONS OF WEATHERPROOF YELLOW PIGMENT OBTAINED FROM THE LA. DOT LOCAL OFFICE, HE AX THAT I PASS ON HIS COMPLIMENT TA OUR ADMINISTRATION, KEEEAW, FOR HE WOULD NEVAH THOT OF PAINTIN AH YELLOW LINE "BETWEEN THE CURBLINE AND THE CENTERLINE OF DA ROAD TO MAKE THE EXISTING ROADBED AH 4-LANE, LIKE ON DA CORNER OF DA PINHOOK $ DA BENDEL ROAD INTERSNAGTION, ON THE PINHOOK SOUTH LANE.
... written by Unempirical Observer , December 29, 2009 - 03:24 am
Mais, da' shotgun, c'est vrai. The poor, they pay more than their fair share, this city funded on property tax (zero exemption, from paid up dolluh one) and sales tax (paid up from dolluh one.)(even the feds, they give exemption, deductions, reductions and credits! The rich, they can only buy so much, relative to their income, they get exemptions for owning their homes, the poor, the young, the others, we rent our dwellings, and yet we are penalized, zero-to-seventy-five. What else do they pay? Enlighten us readers.
Verot School road? Did not C/P President Durel attest upon his investiture of January 2004, that Verot going to bid in 2006 was far too long to wait for positive change.....yet here we wait, 2006, delayed to '08, now delayed to '10. Yes, a hurricane or two has transpired in the lapse of time since then. Life is but a journey, our travails a bump or two on the road; in time all shall be righted.
All these cost accruances in a time of depreciating investment costs, suprising it 'tis.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , December 29, 2009 - 08:26 pm
AY UNNDAIMPERIAL OBSCENER, "IN TIME ALL SHALL BE RIGHTED"? ......DAS BE LAK DAT TV COMMERCIAL, "IFFEN IT AIN'T LAID IN FOAH HOURS CALL YA PHYSICIAN.............WHAaaaaa!
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN : , December 30, 2009 - 06:13 pm
MAIS UNEMPIRICAL OBSERVER, WHO DAT?-----YEAH! WHO DAT SAY DEY GONNA HARP DIS OLE SONG,WHEN WE'S GONE? THEM YOUNG COUILLIONS CAN'T CARRY OUR WATER JUGs"...............TAKE DAT TA DA *MELS DINER WID AH DOLLAR, DAT GET YA AH CUP, OH CAWFEE.............DAT BE ME IN DA ROUND BOOTTABLE BY THE EXIT DOAH, DAS MAH PLACE, IM BUYIN DA CAWFEE, DUDE !
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SHEEEEET, WE KNOW THE TAXES WE PAY WID THE POOR PEEPS IS QUADRUPLE THE TAXES THE ELITE PEEPS PAY OVAH ON DA OTHER SIDE DA RR XXXXXXXX BY DA UNDERPASS.
HELL, WE GOT *COX, *AT$T, *SLEMCO, *DA WAL-MART, AND DA BREAUXS MART,
WHAT ELSE WE NEED. TINK ABOUT IT, BRO.................
MERRY CHRISTMAS, BRO! DON'T WAIT ON SANTA, DEY AIN'T NO "DUSKY SANTA.