Midwest #17, 2010

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August 21 2010

Vol. XVII • No. 17

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Komatsu Dumps Ducks for Derby...12

First Part of Rte. 364 Upgrade Construction in Books; Second Ready to Go Activity Rises Girder prep work begins on the Harvester Road Bridge.

by 0.1 Percent By Martin Crutsinger

AP ECONOMICS WRITER

NGLCO Celebrates Annual Field Day...28

By Kathie Sutin

CEG CORRESPONDENT

Bunch Brothers Holds Sale in Ohio...68

Table of Contents ............4 Parts ..............................31 Truck & Trailer Section .... ..................................32-36 Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ....49-59 Auction Section ......65-75 Business Calendar ........67 Advertisers Index ..........74

Grading equipment beeped in the background as local officials and representatives of state and local lawmakers cut the ribbon to open a new section of Rte. 364 to motorists as work continues on three additional projects that will extend the road three miles to Mid-Rivers Mall Drive in 2012.

The $19.7 million project included, besides an additional mile of Rte. 364 from west of Jungg Station Road to just east of Woodstone Drive, construction of one-way outer roads and a new bridge to take Harvester Road over Rte. 364. The project also removed another traffic signal from Rte. 364 improving the traffic flow on Harvester Road and Rte. 364. Some 705,000 cu. yds. (539,011 cu m) of

WASHINGTON (AP) Construction spending in the United States edged up in June but all the strength came from the government. Private sector activity in both housing and nonresidential projects fell. Construction spending rose 0.1 percent in June, the Commerce Department reported Aug. 2. While that was better than the decline economists had forecast, the government sharply revised down its estimate of activity in May to show a drop of 1 percent rather than the 0.2 percent dip initially reported. The lackluster performance for construction was the latest indicator that the overall economy slowed in the spring, raising worries about the durability of the recovery that began a year ago. The government reported in July that total economic growth slowed to a rate of 2.4 percent in the April-to-June quarter, down from a 3.7 percent growth rate in the first three months of the year and a 5 percent growth

see UPGRADE page 24

see ACTIVITY page 46

package into law last February. Members of the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission monitored Obama’s bill signing ceremony by video and voted seconds later to approve the bridge replacement and three other projects. Within a minute, commissioners handed a check to a contractor who had workers standing by. A backhoe operator began digging a hole for a support beam of the new bridge while other workers began working on the old span. The old bridge was closed to large trucks in 2007 because of structural concerns. A badly

deteriorating steel beam was identified during inspections conducted after a deadly Minnesota bridge collapse. The new bridge will be 28 ft. (8.5 m) wide, an extension of 8 ft. (2.4 m). Transportation officials closed traffic over the river to allow roads to be connected to the new bridge. “This closure is necessary to make the tie-ins because the roadway elevations to the new bridge differ significantly from the old bridge,” said Patty Lemongelli, a construction and materials engineer for the Department of Transportation.

Mo. Crews Wrap Up U.S.’s First Stimulus Project

OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) Missouri crews are finishing work on the nation’s first construction project to be funded by the federal stimulus package. Missouri transportation officials plan to open the new highway bridge over the Osage River in Tuscumbia on Aug. 16, The Lake Sun Leader reported. The bridge carries traffic on Missouri 17 over the tributary of the Missouri River about 30 mi. southwest of Jefferson City. Work on replacing the nearly 80-year-old bridge started just minutes after President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus


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