Terrebonne fights legal battle over Hollywood Road construction delays
Kezia Setyawan and Dan Copp
The Courier and Daily Comet
Terrebonne Parish government has filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to obtain testimony from two federal employees in a financial dispute involving the Hollywood Road widening project.
Conti Enterprises Inc., a developer based in New Jersey, filed a lawsuit in 2015 in state District Court in Houma. It seeks millions of dollars in damages associated with road delays from Providence, the parish s engineering firm based in Houma; parish government and the state Transportation Department.
Conti claims it is owed more than $2.3 million for direct costs and over $2.2 million for overhead costs incurred for 324 days of delay on the busy Houma road.
Buttigieg
NEW ORLEANS - An attempt to update Hollywood Road in Terrebonne Parish has tangled the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government (TPCA), the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and FHWA Administrator Stephanie Pollock in federal court.
According to a lawsuit filed on April 6 in New Orleans, plaintiff TPCA applied for and was awarded use of FHWA funds through the Louisiana Federal-Aid Highway Program, a roadway cost-sharing program that takes 80% of road update costs off of local entities. The program is administered by the DOT.
TPCA entered into an agreement for the Hollywood Road construction with contractor Conti Enterprises Inc., with the DOT as an underlying party at the requirement of the DOT.
Thu March 11, 2021 - Northeast Edition #6
Irwin Rapoport â CEG Correspondent
Cranes are playing an essential role in the bridge reconstruction project. Here one lifts a prefabricated deck.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is replacing the
Route 7/Wittpenn Bridge over the Hackensack River at a cost of $495 million, with the goal of having the new bridge completed in early 2023. The bridge links Jersey City on the east side to the town of Kearny on the west side (Hudson County).
The construction began in November 2011, and in late September 2020 CCA Civil Inc. installed a unique bridge deck an orthotropic deck for the vertical lift span that is 324 ft. long. The project is being financed by federal funds and the Lincoln Tunnel Access Program.