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July 29, 2017 • Vol. XX • No. 15 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
Crews Work on Michigan’s ‘Golden Corridor’ By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
Minnesota Sees New Museum…12
Southeastern Equipment Company Turns 60…14
Celebrating Erie Canal’s Bicentennial…22
The 90,000 cars and trucks that daily travel along a 3.7-mi. stretch of M-59/Hall Road between M-53 and Romeo Plank are the biggest challenge for the crews of Angelo Iafrate Construction as they work to complete the $60 million rebuilding of the highway. The work, along the “Golden Corridor,” began in March 2016 and is expected to be completed September 19, 2018. This year’s construction season focuses on the rebuilding of M59 between M-53/Delco Boulevard to just west of Garfield Road. The 2018 work covers the area from Garfield to Romeo Plank. The east-west concrete road, four lanes in each direction, will retain its lane configuration when completed, but traffic flow will be improved and it will be converted into a traditional asphalt-based road surface. The construction is seeing crews working mainly day shifts, with some night work, not only rebuilding the road, but also upgrading ramps, repairing and adding sidewalks, improving drainage with a new storm water sewer, replacing signs and traffic signals, and enhancing the landscape. The construction is taking place in the communities of Sterling Heights, Utica, Clinton, Macomb and Shelby townships. “This project will improve stability, make traffic flow better and extend the life of the roadway by at least 25 years with regular maintenance,” said Jim Petronski, MDOT project man-
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ager. “MDOT plans out their work years in advance, but design on this particular project started over 18 months ago. Access will be improved by providing a safer, pothole free roadway with improved traffic signal progression. Each community has been involved since the beginning of the planning stages. Through our continued partnership with our local partners, we have added many enhancements to the
project, including decorative crosswalks and mast arms just to name a few.” M-59 began its life on July 1, 1919 and is now “one of Michigan’s most heavily travelled roads.” The trunkline highway crosses the northern part of Metropolitan Detroit between Howell at I-96 and I-94 on the Chesterfield– Harrison Township line, near Selfridge Air see MDOT page 64
Indiana Gov. Unveils $4.7B List of Road Projects
Truck & Trailer Section........ By Brian Slodysko ...................................... 49-55 ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana Recycling Section........ 65-79 Gov. Eric Holcomb said that he was “incredibly stoked” to announce a
Business Calendar............ 80 $4.7 billion list of infrastructure
projects across the state that will get
Auction Section............ 84-89 funding over the next five years. Advertisers Index.............. 90
The 90,000 cars and trucks that daily travel along a 3.7-mi. stretch of M-59/Hall Road between M-53 and Romeo Plank are the biggest challenge for the crews of Angelo Iafrate Construction as they work to complete the $60 million rebuilding of the highway.
Holcomb and the GOP-dominated Legislature made raising taxes to pay for infrastructure projects a top
priority this year. The announcement by the Republican governor comes after the GOP-controlled Legislature passed a package of tax and fee hikes during the session that ended in April, including a 10-cent fuel tax increase that took effect on July 1. “This transformational infrastructure program will be the largest non-stop sustainable building program that our state has ever seen,”
Holcomb said at an Indianapolis news conference where he unveiled his “Next Level Roads Plan.” “We’re fixing things. And we’re doing it now. And we’re paying for it now,” he said. The projects on the list include efforts to rehab 1,295 bridges, resurface 9,628 miles of road and add an additional 122 miles of roadway, according to state figures. One major project is completing the
remaining miles of Interstate 69, which will provide a direct route from Evansville to Indianapolis. The effort is running more than a year behind schedule and the state recently took control of the project, which had been run by a public-private partnership inked under former Gov. Mike Pence that was plagued by problems. One of the main contractors, the Spanish company see PROJECTS page 87