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Gov. Cuomo’s $100B List of Projects Will Cost N.Y. Far Less
The interchange was Queen Anne’s County’s highest transportation priority, and is strongly supported by the citizens’ group “Support Overpass 4 Students.”
Cl earwater Updates Historic Gatehouse ......... ......8
By David Klepper ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caterpillar Announces New Group Pr esident ............22
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Three billion dollars for a new Penn Station. Twenty billion for affordable housing and the homeless. Another $22 billion for highways and bridges. And $26 billion for New York City transit. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $100 billion list of proposals and projects reads like an expensive one, likely the grandest in New York state history. But a careful review of his budget proposal shows the Democratic governor is counting on money from federal, private or other sources and that the actual price tag for the state will be far less. Many of the projects will be spread out over several years. Others, like upgrades at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, aren’t fully funded at all, with the budget offering only promises of future funding. For the Democratic governor, it’s a creative way of having it both ways: he can take credit for big projects while also keeping a lid on state spending. “It is a development initiative that would make Gov. interchange, along with bicycle-compatible shoulders on the MD 304 Bridge to Rockefeller jealous,’’ he said, referencing the leader who provide safe passage for cyclists and built Albany’s Empire State Plaza, constructed thousands of miles of highways and greatly expanded the state university pedestrians.
MD 301 Interchange Being Built in Queen Anne’s County By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Ritchie Leader Discuss es Success in Industry...116
Table of Contents ................4 Paving Section ..............67-81 Parts Section....................108 Auction Section ......112-125 Business Calendar ..........125 Advertisers Index ............126
A new $49.9 million interchange is being built along Maryland’s U.S. 301 see INTERCHANGE page 28 (Blue Star Memorial Highway) at MD 304 (Ruthsburg Road) in Queen Anne’s County to replace an existing at-grade intersection. Construction for the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) began in the fall of 2014 and will be complete by late fall 2018 or early 2019, weather perBy Patricia Sullivan mitting. THE WASHINGTON POST The new interchange includes a two-lane bridge carrying MD ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) A large, heavy ship, 304 over U.S. 301. In addition, scuttled between 1775 and 1798, is being dug out of two single-lane roundabouts will its damp grave at the site of a new hotel construction be built along MD 304 on either project in Old Town Alexandria. side of the new bridge to safely Archaeologists found the partial hull of a ship at guide drivers through the inter220 S. Union Street, part of the city’s major redevelchange. The project includes a opment of the Potomac River waterfront. It’s on the new 25-space paved ridesharing same one-block site where workers two months ago lot in the northwest corner of the
see PROJECTS page 32
Archaeologists Dig Up 300-Year-Old Ship on Virginia Construction Site discovered a 1755 foundation from a warehouse that is believed to have been the city’s first public building. “It’s very rare. This almost never happens,’’ said Dan Baicy, the hard-hatted field director of Thunderbird Archeology, the firm watching for historic evidence during construction. “In 15 years that I’ve done this work, I’ve never run into this kind of preservation in an urban environment where there’s so much disturbance.’’ Naval archaeologists joined the crew at the site to see SHIP page 28