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Major ’Burgh Interchange Makeover Under Way By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Komatsu America Names New CEO…8
D&W Diesel Expands HQ in Aubur n, N.Y. …22
A $20 million road construction project currently is under way in Pittsburgh, Pa. The contract, which was awarded to Walsh Construction Company of Canonsburg, Pa., involves Route 65 at the Marshall Avenue interchange on the North Side. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), approximately 13,000 vehicles use the road in each direction on a typical weekday. The current project is the second phase of the rehabilitation of the Route 65/Route 19 Marshall Avenue Interchange. Work includes the replacement of concrete decks, substructure spall repairs, expansion dams, bearing replacements, steel repairs, cleaning and painting structural steel, approach slab replacements, highway lighting and other improvements. The long-term closure will reportedly continue through early summer 2012. The bridges were originally scheduled to temporarily open in November with closures resuming in early 2012 and continuing through fall. see MARSHALL page 110
CC&T Take s on Bagel a, Rubble M aster Lines… 34
Table of Contents ........4 Paving Section ......57-71 Skid Steers & Attachments Section...... ..............................75-91 Auction Section .............. ..................Starts at 120 Business Calendar....128 Advertisers Index ....142
The current project is the second phase of the rehabilitation of the Route 65/Route 19 Marshall Avenue Interchange.
Shale Energy Seen as Potential Game-Changer “Equipment distributors in Ohio and tion representing construction equipment com- resources in building and expanding roads and Pennsylvania overwhelmingly believe that the panies, Heller spoke about the effect that shale highways for hauling sand, water, pipes and shale energy sector has the potential to be an energy production has had on his business and other materials to and from sites in the economic game-changer,” Dennis Heller, presi- other local equipment dealers. Marcellus Shale formation,” all of which has dent and CEO of Stephenson Equipment in “Energy companies have invested substantial see SHALE page 130 Harrisburg, Pa., told a congressional committee Feb. 27. Heller was testifying at a U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee Energy & Mineral Resources Subcommittee to clear a procedural hurdle in the Senate. field hearing in Steubenville, Ohio, on By Joan Lowy The government’s power to spend federal the impact of shale energy develop- ASSOCIATED PRESS Highway Trust Fund money on transportation proment. grams and to levy federal gas and diesel taxes that WASHINGTON (AP) Lawmakers are under Appearing in his capacity as a member of the board of directors of pressure to find a way to keep federal aid flowing to support the trust fund are due to expire March 31. If Associated Equipment Distributors highway and transit programs beyond the end of that were to happen, states could have difficulty see BILL page 110 (AED), an international trade associa- this month after a transportation bill failed March 6
Highway Bill Stalls Again in Senate