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Crews Multi-Stage Amid Frenetic Interchange By Mary Reed CEG CORRESPONDENT
Reed & Reed Captures Free Wind as Fuel…8
Rockin’ Block Party Winners Announced…50
In a couple of years motorists in and around Morris Plains and Parsippany-Troy Hills in New Jersey’s Morris County will reap the benefit of ongoing upgrading work at the busy interchange of Route 10 and Route 53. “As part of this wholly state-funded $7.5 million project, the New Jersey Department of Transportation [NJDOT] began reconstructing and realigning the interchange at the beginning of November 2009. During the early phases of the job drainage will be upgraded, utilities relocated, and a nearby property demolished,” said Tim Greeley, press officer of the NJDOT Office of Communications. “The project also includes installing new acceleration lanes on Route 10 and eliminating exit and entrance ramps in both directions on both it and Route 53. The latter will also receive a pair of new signalized intersections with local streets as well as undergoing A John Deere 624K wheel loader was used for trench excavation on the Route see INTERCHANGE page 46
Alex Lyon & Son Kicks Off Florida Auctions…128
Table of Contents ........4 Paving Section ......53-65 Excavators & Attachments Section...... ............................67-103 Parts Section ............117 Business Calendar....123 Auction Section123-140 Advertisers Index ....138
10/Route 53 interchange project.
Challenges Abound on Pa. Demolition Crews Hospital Expansion Project Begin Retiring Giants Stadium By Jennifer Hetrick
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
As recently as 20 years ago, motorists traveling on state Route 611 near Doylestown, Pa., could take the bypass past the historic town and the modest hospital, one of the only landmarks along the bypass, and quickly find themselves driving through stretches of nothing but farmland. Not so today. Doylestown and nearby communities such as Buckingham and Solebury have experienced tremendous growth, particularly in the last 10 years. This growth, showing up in housing developments, see HOSPITAL page 28
By Tom Canavan AP SPORTS WRITER
Members of the Norwood team gather to enjoy the topping off ceremony. (L-R) are Harry Kamnik, senior project manager; Eric Urbanski, project executive; Homer May, superintendent; Tim Kelly, marketing/sales; Gary Pearce, assistant superintendent; Joe Mitchell Jr., vice president; Joe Sliwinski, superintendent.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) The demolition of Giants Stadium got started Feb. 4 when a giant metal claw attached to a crane started taking bites out of the cement helix at one of the four gates around the 34-yearold facility. Clouds of dust drifted in the air as concrete and rebar poked through areas where the concrete was ripped away. The $10 million-plus demolition project will take about four months with the seats and sod being sold as memorabilia. Much of the concrete is being used to fill a 14-ft. hole where the field is currently located. About a dozen construction workers at the adjacent new stadium that will be home to the Giants and Jets see GIANTS page 48