Some Eunice-area roads in 2nd parish Smooth Ride package

Some Eunice-area parish roads are in the second package of Smooth Ride Home projects being offered to contractors for potential August bidding.
St. Landry Parish President William Fontenot said at Wednesday night’s July parish council meeting there is an estimated $14.1 million work of improvements in the 30-project package of patching, overlay and/or reconstruction.
The work is being financed by the sales tax approved last fall by voters in unincorporated areas of the parish.
The 15-year tax will provide for more than $60 million in road improvements in those areas.
The first package of roads, all south of U.S. 190 went out to bidders early this month. Bids are to be received July 29.
Fontenot estimates there is about a month between contract lettting and start of work, meaning the first package should be under way in early September, with the second package on the ground so to speak by October.
He said the first two modules are roads that the parish determined were ready to go, with no attendant issues that needed to be addressed.
That notation came after Council member Pam Gautreau noted that three Sunset-area roads she anticipated being in the early letting are not.
While she didn’t ask, her intimation was that perhaps they were dropped because of the well-documented disagreements she and Fontenot have had.
Fontenot did not mention those either, instead saying roads “with issues have to wait until maybe January.”
He and the council wanted to get work going on as many roads as possible as soon as possible to show good faith to voters who bucked national trends last fall in providing new tax money.
“We packaged those that were the quickest and most expeditious,” Fontenot, a career state highway engineer, said.
Projects in the second package include:
Dupre Road, from La. 3043 to U.S. 167, $1.6 million;
Texas Eastern Road, from U.S. 167 to La. 3043, $746,700;
Noel Road, from La. 35 to Bourque Road, $544,500;
Duplechin Road, from La. 35 to Jesse B. Road, $872,000;
School Road, from U.S. 190 to La. 752, $355,800;
Fontenot Road, from Cemetery Road to La. 103, S244,400;
Pointe Verte Road, from La. 103 south to La. 103 north, $709,400;
True Vine Road, from Pointe Verte to end of pavement, $149,100;
Cosay Road, from La. 103 to U.S. 167, $474,600;
Rideau Road, from U.S. 71 to Palmetto, $749,400;
Rideau Raod, from La. 10 to Palmetto, $113,800;
Barne’s Lane, from Rideau Road to dead end, $32,300;
Bolden Road, from La. 359 to U.S. 71, $727,200;
Guillory Road, from U.S. 190 to parish line, $512,200;
WPA Road, from U.S. 71 to La. 182, $2.5 million;
Dresser Loop, from La. 757 to Lawyer Road, $246,700;
Lawyer Raod, from Dresser Loop to La. 13, $162,400;
South Vivian, from Perchville Road to Maple Ave., $92,500;
St. Mary Road, from U.S. 190 to La. 29, $423,100;
St. Mary Road, from Perchville Road to La. 190, $209,800;
Chanteberry Road, from U.S. 190 to La. 103, $386,500;
Frank Road, from U.S. 190 to La. 104, $458,500;
Soileau Road, from La. 757 to La. 13, $541,700;
Sage Road, from La. 103 to Frilot Cove Road, $183,400;
St. Peter Road, from La. 748 to La. 363, $213,000;
Boudreaux Road, from Debileaux St. to La. 104, $119,800;
Deblieaux Street, from La. 104 to La. 190, $33,800;
St. Berchman Dr., from Andrepont Road to end of pavement, $320,200;
St. Matthew Ave., from La. 104 to St. Berchman Dr., $159,400;
Babineaux Raod, from La. 358 to Duplechin Road, $282,500.
Some project cost expectations:
Asphaltic concrete wearing course, $90 a ton;
Asphaltic concrete patching, $150 a ton;
Asphaltic concrete leveling course, $90 a ton;
8.5-inch soil cement (10 percent by volume), $7 a square yard;
Lime subgrade treatment, $6 a square yard;
Scarify and place 4-inch asphaltic concrete base, $90 a ton;
Cold planing, $5 a square yard;
Aggregate shoulder material, $80 a cubic yard.
Basic engineering and construction administration fees are 6.5 percent of the estimated construction costs, with 75 percent of that 6.5 percent for basic services and 25 percent for administration.