BATON ROUGE, LA – Governor Jeff Landry has officially announced the creation of the Louisiana Office of Highway Construction, a new state agency tasked with overseeing infrastructure projects that will remain entirely theoretical for the foreseeable future.
The office’s newly appointed director, Archie Chaisson III, will not begin work until the state completes a 15 year multi-agency feasibility study to determine whether the office should actually exist.
“This appointment is about planning for the future,” Landry said. “And then planning whether we should have actually planned in the first place.”
The feasibility study will evaluate key factors such as traffic patterns, climate impact, economic benefit, and whether the office’s logo should use serif or sans-serif font.
While Chaisson won’t have an office or any real responsibilities until at least 2040, the governor confirmed he will receive a new shovel and high-visibility vest “to get into the mindset of actually starting road construction jobs.”
DOTD officials estimate the final report determining the necessity of the office “should” be ready sometime between 2040 and 2048, but more likely 2052, assuming no additional studies are ordered.
