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® September 5 2018 Vol. LVI • No. 18
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Work Addresses Notorious ‘Kamikaze Curve’
Harms Construction Buys First MLC100-1 Crane…14
NYSDOT photo
Crews remove the substructure on Mygatt Street. Tracey Road Holds Event at New Facility…30
Kubota Unveils New Sidekick UV…46
Table of Contents................ 4 Paving Section.............. 53-67 Underground Utility, Trenchers & Trench Boxes Section.......................... 71-80 Snow & Ice Section..113-116 Parts Section....................117 Auction Section...... 122-136 Business Calendar.......... 132 Advertisers Index............ 134
By Mary S. Yamin-Garone CEG CORRESPONDENT
The construction season is in full swing as crews continue working on the city’s Prospect Mountain NYSDOT photo Project. Named after the adjacent Mt. Prospect, this long- Major construction on the Prospect Mountain project began in the spring of 2012 term project, currently under way in Binghamton, N.Y., and the $152 million contract was awarded in May of 2016. addresses the notorious “Kamikaze Curve” section of • Intelligent Transportation Systems features include closed circuit telNew York 17 (Southern Tier Expressway) and replaces the structurally deficient bridges over the Chenango River and at the directional T inter- evision camera, highway advisory radio and permanent variable message signs; change joining the future I-86 with Interstate 81. • Phase 1 — work replaces the I-81 and NY 17 bridges over the The Prospect Mountain Project has been a long time in the making. Neighborhood meetings began in February 2006. The design was Chenango River. This includes four spans, where the two routes come approved in January 2008 and the project was awarded in November together above U.S. 11. Adjacent construction reconfigures the ramps to 2011. Major construction began in the spring of 2012 and the $152 million Mygatt Street from the Southern Tier Expressway; and • Phase 2 — work reconfigures the full cloverleaf interchange (Exit 4) contract was awarded in May of 2016. The project encompasses roughly 9 mi. of construction. It’s being com- with New York 7 into a parclo (cloverleaf) interchange. It also adds a collector distributor system separating movements to NY 7 from the west pleted in multiple phases and has several goals. • Pre-Phase 1 — install high mast lighting. see PROSPECT page 92
Bored-Tunnel Method Picked for Hampton Roads As a milestone in the procurement process for the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion project, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has announced the project will move forward with the bored-tunnel construction method to deliver the next connection across the Hampton Roads harbor. Both competing teams — Hampton Roads
Capacity Constructors and Hampton Roads Connector Partners — notified VDOT they selected the bored-tunnel method as the basis for their bid proposals, which will be submitted in late 2018. “The selection of a bored tunnel means Hampton Roads will see some of the world’s most sophisticated tunnel technology at work. Once complete, this new crossing will greatly
improve accessibility, transit, emergency evacuation and military and goods movement along the I-64 corridor,” said VDOT Commissioner Stephen Brich. Although the immersed-tube method was used to construct all ten of Hampton Roads’ existing crossings — from the original Downtown Tunnel in 1952 to the new see HAMPTON page 117