Key Information from City Council Meeting / Aug. 23, 2006

Key Information from Wed. August 23, 2006 Council meeting
CSRS Green Light Plan Presentation

See Boulevard cross section picture attached

Bike path move off street and combined with sidewalk ..
Legal issue – against the law to ride bike on sidewalk.

Sewage needs replacement, therefore Staring was highlight as a priority.

Program Priority Matrix - See spreadsheet for details of order in which street
projects will be done Design phase to be executed first.

• 6 Factors
• Scoring values 1 thru 5
• Weighting values 1 thru 6
• Highest Score

Factors Weightings

Accident Data 6

• Data collected from City, Sheriff,
LSU, and State Police Departments
• Highest score to highest number of
accidents for period 2004 and 2005

Utilization 5

• Average Daily Traffic (ADT) for 2030
from Trans-Model was used
• Highest score given to highest ADT


Right-of-Way 4

• Availability of ROW to construct
the proposed section
• Highest score to projects where ROW
exists

Project Cost 3

• Total Project Cost was determined
• Highest score to projects with lowest
Total Project Cost

Funding Potential 2

• Potential for future funding from FHWA,
State, LaDOTD Swap, Urban Systems, CMAQ
• Highest score to lowest funding potential

Environmental Permitting 1

• Environmental and Permitting concerns were
evaluated
• Highest score to projects with no concern

Initial Allocation of $125M Bond Sale
6 Projects Funded for Construction

Central Thruway
Comite Drive
O’Neal Lane
Picardy Avenue
South Choctaw Drive
South Harrell’s Ferry Road

Final Allocation of $125M Bond Sale
5 Projects Funded for Construction

• Burbank Drive – Segment 1
• Burbank Drive – Segment 2
• Downtown Signalization
• Foster @ Government
• Veterans Memorial Boulevard Extension

8 Projects Funded for Right Of Way (ROW) Acquisitions

• Coursey @ Sherwood Forest
• Essen Lane @ I-10
• Lobdell Improvements
• McHugh Road
• North Harrell’s Ferry Road
• Perkins @ Stanford/Acadian
• South Harrell’s Ferry Road
• Stumberg Extension

11 Projects Funded for Engineering

• Brightside Lane
• Elm Grove Garden
• Fairchild-Badley Road
• Ford Street
• Highland Road
• Old Hammond Highway Segment 2
• O’Neal Lane – Segment 1
• Siegen Lane
• Staring Lane
• Staring Lane Extension 1
• Sullivan Road

Engineering = Design ??? which establishes project cost and what will be done.

City/Parish Council Meeting to address Green-Light Plan Changes - 4pm, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006

We would like to request the presence of all Staring Lane Community Association members, adjourning Associations, and other concerned citizens at the City/Parish meeting. We recently (today-8/21) learned from the engineering firm CSRS that two items on the City/Parish Council's agenda is of great concern to us:
(1)Plans for sewage repairs/replacment; (2)Green-Light Plans.

This meeting will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006, in the City/Parish Governmental Building 222 St. Louis St. at 4:00 PM. Please ask all to come and bring a friend with them. We need a show of force. Someone will present on behalf of the association our position if allowed to do so. See you there! Dr. Shamlin