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Vol. XLIX • No. 5
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In April 2014, the Palmer The Palmer Motorsports Park project is set to be completed Motorsports Park project in spring 2015 and will cover 658 acres on a former logging was shown the green flag property near Palmer. The 40 ft. (12 m) wide track will and construction soon began feature 15 turns and an elevation of 190 ft. (58 m), with the on the state’s first private topography of the site and surrounding hills creating an road racing course. The track acoustic buffer. will be used for driver training, demonstrations, vehicle testing, a range of motorsports and competitions. To ensure driver safety, the track must be smooth, even and high quality. EJ Paving Co., a local general paving contractor based in Methuen, Mass., is taking the lead in laying the 2.25 mi. (3.6 km) track — and the company is employing a team of five Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) machines to do so. Established in 1987 by Tom Evangelista, EJ Paving percent private, 40 percent public. The company has worked provides residential, commercial, highway and specialist with Volvo CE pavers for 25 years, and currently owns nine paving to the New England region with a job mix that is 60 see VOLVO page 6
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Rhode Island has not experienced as precipitous of a drop in federal highway dollars as other states have, but its share of the funding is still not enough to address an aging network of roads, highways and bridges. Nearly half of the 1,100 miles of state-maintained roads are in fair or worse condition, according to the state Department of Transportation. About 20 percent of the state’s bridges are considered
structurally deficient. Eight of the 11 bridges at the interchange of Routes 6 and 10 are more than 50 years old and in poor condition, the DOT said. “The rate of decay is faster than the rate of repair,’’ said outgoing DOT Director Michael Lewis. “We lose ground every year.’’ In an era in which federal money for such projects has remained stagnant or declined, a large influx of new funds is unlikely. Rhode Island lawmakers, like lawmakers nationwide, are searching for ways to fill the gap. Gov. Gina Raimondo said Rhode Island needs to embrace see FUNDING page 14