Comments on: County Road 97A Boggy Creek Bridge Replacement Underway

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 22:02:15 +0000

Hey, thanks a bunch, y’all gave me a promotion to “Sidewalk Engineer”. Now I can wear a white plastic helmet and a yellow vest and walk around a lot with a clipboard and 3 sharpened pencils.

Just thinking it’s going to take at least 8 months to build and then there are the over runs on cost and readjustments which will make it much more expensive than expansive.

Hope there are no snail darter fish or endangered moss growing where the crews will work.

Still think it’d just be smarter to build the new bridge and sell the old one back to our County Commission.

By: Chris in Molino

Chris in Molino — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 05:33:13 +0000

Y’all are too funny.

By: Willis

Willis — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 03:07:14 +0000

Civil engineer you’ve met your match
Meet anne the sidewalk engineer

By: chris

chris — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 23:37:21 +0000

Hey Anne we found a civil engineering for you.

By: Civil Engineer

Civil Engineer — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:45:37 +0000

1. This is County right of way, not State.
2. Typically, the temporary bridge can be completely disassembled and used at a future project.
3. The right of way where the temporary bridge is going is probably temporary as well. It is probably secured by license agreement and will go back to the owner once the temporary bridge is removed.
4. Building the permanent bridge where the temporary bridge is currently shown would require more property because the S curves would be longer for a higher design speed than that used for the current temporary bridge. The county would have to buy more property… spending more money.

By: old man

old man — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:22:13 +0000

they did the same thing on 97 did not make sense the approach to the old bridge was worse than the approach to the temperary bridge if you have the money spend it you can always raise taxes look what they did with the ECAT tax and the FIRE TAX

By: chris

chris — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:19:56 +0000

How do you spur the economy by only building one bridge? Build several instead!

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:43:50 +0000

Went to Cordova Mall the other day and was on 12th Avenue where it dips down and a bridge is being built over Carpenter’s Creek by Bayou Texar.

We couldn’t believe that this thing is STILL under construction.
It seems like this rather short span bridge is at least in the Second Year of being built.

Insane waste of taxpayer dollars and believe me WE are paying for every bit of it whether it’s a local, state or federal project.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:31:43 +0000

Okay, I’m not a Civil Engineer but if there is enough state right of way property to build this temporary bridge why not just build the Real Bridge next to the old one?

Traffic could continue on the old bridge while crews work on the new permanent bridge right next to it.

When done with the new bridge remove the old one.

How cost effective is it to build a temp bridge to only tear it down later?
But then I’m not a Civil Engineer….just a Tax Payer.

By: fishhook240

fishhook240 — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:00:22 +0000

Why not build the new bridge next to the old bridge and then realign the lanes to the new bridge. We need a new way of thinking. It surely cost more to build two bridges