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January 25, 2017 • Vol. LV • No. 2 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
Traffic Continues During ‘Raise the Roadway’ Project By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
Events DC Announces Options for RFK Stadium..8
‘Potomac Shores’ to Relieve School Overcrowing in Va...14
Case, New Holland Plant Achieves Silver Level...40
Table of Contents................ 4 Paving Section.............. 65-79 Parts Section....................103 Auction Section...... 108-121 Business Calendar.......... 115 Advertisers Index............ 122
Construction crews in New York and New Jersey are at work on a project that is a first for bridge construction. Crews in the joint “Raise the Roadway” venture of Skanska Koch/Kiewit Infrastructure are raising the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge from 151 ft. (46 m) to 251 ft. (76.5 m), and they’re doing so while maintaining traffic on the original road below. “The project marks the first time engineers are building a bridge roadway
above the original span, even as the lower road continues to carry traffic,” said Neal Buccino, senior public information officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. “It will maintain the steel arch that makes the Bayonne Bridge a civil engineering landmark, while giving drivers a safer, wider and more modern roadway with 12-foot lanes, new shoulders, a median divider, and a 12-foot bike and pedestrian walkway.” The $1.3 billion project to elevate the bridge will raise it to the same height as see BAYONNE page 88
Philly Port to Receive $300M Face-Lift From State Bond PHILADELPHIA (AP) A commitment The investment comes as the Panama of $300 million to the Port of Philadelphia Canal’s newly expanded locks are during the next four years could make it a expected to shift some container busibigger player among East Coast ports at a ness to the East Coast and the Delaware HDR photo River’s main shipping channel is being The contract was awarded in 2013 and is expected to crucial time. Gov. Tom Wolf visited the port to follow be complete by mid 2019. see PHILADELPHIA page 103 up on his November announcement that he will use borrowing authority granted by the Legislature to improve the port’s infrastructure, warehousing, and equipment. Company fees and leases Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo presented a vision at the port will repay the bond, plan to transform JFK International Airport into not taxpayers, Wolf’s adminisan airport equipped to meet the demands of the tration said. 21st Century and worthy of the state of New The port currently is a relaYork. Based on the recommendations of the tively minor player in shipping, Governor’s Airport Advisory Panel, the vision but Wolf’s administration said it plan lays out a comprehensive, airport-wide expects the improvements will framework to create a unified, world-class airdouble the port’s container port. In order to accommodate the dramatic capacity, boost direct employexpected growth at the airport in the coming ment from about 3,000 to 5,000 Office of Governor Andrew Cuomo photo decades and keep New York’s economy moving Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo presented a vision plan to and triple annual revenue to the forward, Cuomo announced that the vision transform JFK International Airport into an airport state from $5.7 million to $18.9 equipped to meet the demands of the 21st Century. see JFK page 22 million.
Gov. Cuomo Presents $10B Plan for JFK