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July 16, 2016 โข Vol. XX โข No. 15 โข 470 Maryland Drive โข Ft. Washington, PA 19034 โข 215-885-2900 โข Toll Free 800-523-2200 โข Fax 215-885-2910
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Inside The heaviest of the segments will weigh 85 tons (77 t), requiring the need for โmassive cranes,โ and three each per segment. Contractor Digs Deep for I-270 Projectโฆ10
Altorfer Hosts Demo Day for Its Customersโฆ16
By David Eggert ASSOCIATED PRESS
Well-Traveled Span Over I-35 Undergoes Replacement By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
MUCA Hosts 36th Annual Golf Tournamentโฆ18
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Snyder Calls for Revisions to Road Funding
There are plenty of challenges in the Iowa Department of Transportationโs project to replace the NE 54th Avenue bridge over I-35. Itโs a heavily traveled area with the interstate seeing 75,000 vehicles daily, and located just a half a mi. north of the NE Mixmaster in Des
Moines, an interchange of I-35, I-235 and I-80. โWhat this bridge does for the Mixmaster is allows ramps to flow outwards to make traffic more directional,โ said David Evans, IDOT transportation engineer specialist. โIn really peak hours, the traffic flow is really restricted. The bridge allows for more room. Because it see BRIDGE page 80
LANSING, Mich. (AP) Gov. Rick Snyder is calling for unspecified โwholesale revisionsโโ of how Michigan divvies up road construction money after his veto of legislation that would have ended a requirement that 45 cities cover some of the cost of state road projects within their limits. The bill was prompted by angst among cities over having to pay up to 2.5 percent of a massive reconstruction and widening of Interstate 75 in Oakland County, north of Detroit. But it would have had effects across the state, in any city with more than 25,000 residents and roads with an I-, US- or M-numbered designation inside their border. The Republican governor vetoed the measure July 1 despite it winning unanimous approval from the GOP-led Legislature. He warned that forcing the Michigan Department of Transportation to fully fund certain state highway projects would result in $22 million less for other projects at a time that โaggressiveโโ spending is needed to upgrade crummy roads everywhere. In January, Michiganโs 19-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax will increase by 7.3 cents and the 15-cent diesel tax will jump by 11.3 cents. Vehicle registration fees will rise by 20 percent. see REVISIONS page 80
Attachment & Parts Section ......................................31-35 Recycling Section ........55-72 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................81-89 Business Calendar ............90 Auction Section..........94-103 Advertisers Index ............102
Bakken Pipeline to Run Under Sacred Tribal Site DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Iowa officials will allow work on a four-state oil pipeline to go forward after the company submitted a plan to avoid disrupting an American Indian burial ground. Department of Natural Resources spokesman Kevin Baskins told The Des Moines Register that Texas-based Dakota
Access LLC was given an amendment on its permit to dig at Big Sioux River Wildlife Management Area. Instead of a trench, the pipeline will be built about 85 ft. (26 m) underground using special boring equipment, Baskins said. State Archaeologist John Doershuk said the companyโs plan is satisfactory, but Indigenous
Environmental Network organizer Dallas Goldtooth said his group opposes the decision to allow construction to go forward. Goldtooth said he believes there may be more sites of cultural and historical significance to tribal people that have not been discovered along the route of the pipeline. see PIPELINE page 78